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STHPENDOUSiPRODIICnON IN EV
ERY DETAIL IS BIRTH OF NATION
THOUSANDS OF HORSES AND
MORE PERSONS, MILES OF
SCENERY AND MARVEL
OUS ACCURACY OF
EVERY DETAIL
After more extensive and sensation
al publicity than has fallen to the lot
of any other theatrical enterprise, D.
W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation”
will open a four-days’ enggagement
next Monday evening at the Colonial.
The first class metropolitan produc
tion is guaranteed to be the one
shown hero, carrying two baggage
cars of equipment, a symphonic or
chestra of musical experts, and ai
complete traveling organization to 60
people.
Many circumstances have conspired
to make “The Birth of a Nation” the
most widely discussed play in the
world. Suggested by Thomas Dixon’s
Southern novels, it embraces a far
wider scope than “The Clansman”
play. Mr, Griffith’s new art covers
150 years of history and pictorializes
the greatest events of the War be
tween the States as well as those of
Reconstruction. Lincoln, Lee and
Grant; the early glories of the Con
federacy; the devastation of General
Sherman’s march to the sea; the
awful siege of Petersburg; the sign
ing of peace at Appomattox; the as
sassination of the president in Ford’s
Theater, and the succeeding orgy of
hate and oppression of the South—
these personages and incidents pass
rapidly before the enthralled specta
tor and lead up to the terrific climaxes
of Part II, which is devoted to what
lias been styled “the second struggle
between the North and South,” ^
struggle caused by the attempt to im
pose carpetbagger rule upon the con
quered states. The wild adventures
and achievements of the Ku Klux
Klan dominate the final scenes, which
yield a happy ending of a double ro
mance of Southern and Northern
sweethearts.
Mr. Griffith’s treatment of the mag
nificent theme is so much greater and
grander than the original play that
there can be no comparison. For ex
ample, he presents 18,000 actors and
3,000 horses instead of the tiny
"armies” of the theatric boards. Ho
shows 5,000 scenes in place of four or
five; far-flung lines of many, many
miles, and Ku Klux “rides” right out
In the open, which surpass in thrills
any Vanderbilt cup race. Yet the in
dividual acting is as fine and artistic
as in a “short cast” drama, the wort
of Henry Walthall as the Clansman
and of Mae Marsh as Flora, in par
ticular, rising to heights of genius.
Other marvels of the work are the
200,000 faithfully accurate historical
details; the musical score synchron
ized to the several thousand distinct
and individual scenes; the wonderful
reproduction of crowded interiors like
the theater performance where Lin
coln was shot, and the South Carolina
legislature session of 1870; the taking
of battle scenes at night by a secret
new process; the use of 25,000 yards
of cloth for Ku Klux costumes, and
12,000 yards for women’s dresses; the
master’s Rembrandt-like management
of light and shade; thge depiction of
the glorious beauty of out-of-door Na
ture; his marvelous quiet yet effective
playing the entire gamut of Romance
from lightest comedy to deepest trag
edy; finally and supremely, the union
of all the stage arts (except conver
sational speech) into a new art-form
of drama-spectacle-with-music.
“The Birth of a Nation” has been
acclaimed as the first pictorial drama
to be presented in a regular theatrical
way and at the usual first-class scale
of “two-dollar top” prices. No ad
vance will be made on these prices on
tour. The facts that one and a half
million people have already witness
ed it, and that it has already run to
capacity attendance for half a year in
the simultaneous productions of New
York, Chicago and Boston, prove that
the biggest claims in its behalf are
justified by the popular verdict. De
spite opposition at various times, it
should be added, “The Birth of Na
tion" has been passed by censor
boards everywhere; upheld, when at
tacked, by decisions of courts of rec
ords -.endorsed by a greater number
of prominent men in all walks of life
including priests and ministers, than
any other entertainment ever offered
to the public. In brief, it has rallied
to its support all friends of free art
and rebuked those whose bigotry
would suppress the re-enactment of
, the Reconstruction story.
More Ministers of the Gospel
at K. P. Grand Lodge than in Any
Other Similar State Convention
The present session of the Grand
Lodge K. of P. will probably have
more ministers of the gospel among
its members than any similar meet
ing ever held in Georgia. Of course,
everybody knows that “Father Beatty”
of ibis city the very popular Grand
Chancellor is an Episcopal minister.
But he is not without company in
numbering those of the cloth among
those who are serving as representa
tives of the order within the Grand
Lodge or the Uniform Ranks. Rev.
'S. R. Grubb of the Athens Christian
church is a representative of St. Elmo
Lodge of this city and Rev. R. K.
Smith of Atlanta is a member of the
Uniform Rank, being chaplain of the
2nd regiment. He is an Episcopal
minister. Rev. C. N. Ledbetter of
Guyton, a Methodist minister is a
major in the Uniform Rank and Rev.
W. H. Faust of Winder one of the
representatives from his home lodge
is a Baptist minister. Major Graham
Forrester of West Point, brigade
chaplaiil of the Uniform Rank is a
Baptist minister. He has been a mem
ber of the Grand Lodge for many
years and wields great influence
therein.
Pot This McDougall Kitchen Cabinet
to Work
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Appeal to 100,000 Ministers to
Ask War Relief Funds May 28
(By Associated Press.)
New York, May 17.—An appeal to
make May 28th Memorial Sunday on
which funds will be raised for war
sufferers through collections in Am
erican churches was mailed to 100,000
ministers today by the federal coun
cial of the Churches of Christ in Am
erica for relief included sufferers in
Belgium, France, Serbia, Poland,
East Prussia, Armenia, Austria, Per
sia, Syria, Turkey, and Montenegro.
Considered Matter a Secret.
“Willie, you haven't said whether
you thanked Mr. Carr for taking you
out for a ride.” “Yes, mother, I
thanked him, but I didn’t tell you, be
cause he said, ‘Don’t mention it.’ ’’—
Boston Transcript.
Mr. Cumrox Speaks Out.
“Do you approve of slang?” “No,”
replied Mr. Cumrox. "It’s too much
trouble. It's as hard to know what
slang is permissible as it is to guess
the right implement for every course
at a big dinner."
National fiat Range Week
$5--Special Offer May 8Jo^l 5—$5_^
for old wood, oil or coal stoves. Turn in the old for the new. This
offer permits you to have a NEW CABINET GAS RANGE, mak
ing the first payment with your old worn-out stove.
The week of May 8-15 is observed by all the gas companies in
the U. s. as Gas Range Week. Thousands of Gas Ranges will be
sold. BUY NOW and be one of the happy thousands.
ATHENS GAS LIGHT & FUEL GO.
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Notice the auto dis
appearing front rools
entirely out of the
way. This cabinet
will save you miles of
steps, will help you
do your work and
will put you out of
kitchen two hours
earlier each day. Has
large sliding top, large
cupboards with metal
shelf, sanitary bread
box, tilting flour bin,
glass sugar bowl, and
full set of glass jars.
Bold on easy terms.
Add Another Room to Tour Honre by the nse Shredwood
Veranda Curtains
No other porch curtain like the Shredwood; they are made different,
will let in the breeze, but not the su n. Investigate this better porch cur
tain. Price depends on size.
Athens Favorita Refrigerator
Belding Hall
(Refrigerators
with
famous Nota Beam
lining is the one that
holds the chill and
keep everything in
trusted to its care in
perfect condition.
(Made heavy with
double wall construe
tion, wire Bhelves and
free circulation with
duplex safety water
escape. Our third
shipment just receiv
ed and now showing
a complete stock.
Sold on easy terms.
Full Collapsable Steel Sulky
FULL SPRING BACK AND SE|AT, MADE OF BEST GRADE STEEL
-—THE TRAILER WHEELS MAKES IT CONVENIENT IN COMING
DOWN STEPS OR OFF THE CURBING—ONE PULL OF SPRING AND
SULKY FOLDS COMPLETELY UP. MANY STYLES FOR YOUR SE-
Bloch, the Famous Baby
Carriage
BLOCH SWING AND CRADLE GEAR, WILL NOT
NJURE BABY’S SPINE. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY
NO JAR WHEN A BLOCH IS USED. THE CARRIAGE
BODY IS ALWAYS LEVEL; MADE OF BEST MA
TERIAL THROUGHOUT. SOLD ON EASY TERMS.
Victrolas,
BERNSTEIN BROTHERS
Porch Rockers
New Home Sewing Machines
Phone 61
Porch Swings, Porch Rugs,
Trunks, Ideal Fireless Cookers
Get Our Prices Broad Street
Lawn Swings
FLYING MACHINE JAMES MUSIC CO.
BEN EPPS, AUTO ENTHUSIAST,
WILL EXHIBIT HIS OWN
MODEL OF AEROPLANE.
Without a doubt one of the most in
teresting displays at the show will be
the flying machine put on exhibition
by Mr. Ben Epps who has manufac
tured one right here in Athens and
made a number of flights with it. -
Mr. Epps is also an expert automo
bile man and maintains one of the
best garages in the city on East
Washington street. He is naturally
an expert mechanic and is one of the
original automobile enthusiasts in the
city. You cannot miss his display at
the show and your cars at his garage
will always receive the best of atten
tion.
WILL HAVE EXHIBIT PIANOS,
SEWING MACHINES, AND
PHONOGRAPHS ON
DISPLAY.
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♦ “MOVIE” PROVERBS. -t-
Real salesmanship is the practical
effort to “Help-the-Other-Fellow” by
selling him what he needs and then
backing it with first-clas service.
The right kind of a salesman begins
by training himself.
I don't think much of a salesman
who isn’t better today than he was
yesterday.
Know yourself—know your car-
know your company—know your pros
pect—the rest is easy,
Give the other fellow a square deal
and beat him out on merits. Wake
up to the fact that in selling Fords
you are capitalizing yourself.
Remember that you are working in
the only big country on earth where
work can be done at the present time
Make yourself, and shake yourself,
and DO—North and South and East
and West—the Gord is out for YOU.
Standing still is only death in an
other form—don’t be a dead one. The
only business man who can make
money out of a dead one is the under
taker.
Any man who doesn’t have a good
time in business doesn’t know what
a good time is.
There wouldn’t be any man work it
machines had been brains.
An educated salesman is one who
is onto his job and most big jobs are
only a lot of little jobs assembled.
The Eighth Wonder of the World Is
building a Ford car every 29 seconds.
The Ninth wonder of the Universe is
Selling them several seconds faster. "
In the race between Producing and
The James Music Company which
occupies part of the room where the
Banner’s auto show is to be held is a
special manufacturers’ distributor
and handles the best make of musical
instruments.
Among this number of instruments
is the famous Edison Phonograph
which has become celebrated on ac
count of the diamond Disc record
that has been put on the market. The
James Company was the first to re
ceive Southern shipments of these
records and the diamond machines
and the music furnished at the show
by the phonograph will be from one
of these instruments.
A handsome line of pianos is also
handled by the James Distributing
Company and among the list are the
Mason and Hamlin, the Conover, the
Cable, the Kingsbury, the Wellington,
(both up-right and grand), Carola In
ner Piano Players, Euphona Player.
An innovation in sewing machines
is also shown in the Free Machine
which is the sensation of the sewing
machine age. This machine is en
cased in a handsome cabinet that
forms a useful table when not in
use and for beauty and artistic design
is without an equal.
When visiting the Auto show don’t
fail to see the display of the James
Music Company. i
STUDEBAKER: TAL-
MAGE HARDWARE CO.
The display of the Studebaker cars
will be in charge of Mr. E. H. Scott
who will personally look after the ex
hibit for the Thlmage Hardware Co.,
who has the agency for this section.
The Studebaker is a car that is more
than well known it has back of it the
best vehicle knowledge of the coun
try and everywhere the motor driven
car is found the Studebaker is there.
Mr. Scott will be pleased to per
sonally lend every courtesy to visi
tors at the show and it will be a
pleasure for him to show you the
Studebaker models on display and(
you will find none more interesting.
Selling, the Ford Sales Force still
starts from the scratch—but we must
keep in constant training to hold our
record.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Years
Always bears
the
Signature of
WINTERVILLE HIGH
SCHOOL WILL CLOSE
BIG ENROLLMENT; LARGE GRAD
UATING class; address
BY REV. S. P. WIGGINS.
(Special to the Banner.)
Winterville, Ga., May 17.—The
Winterville High School closes on
Friday of this week, one of the most
successful of school terms in its his
tory. The enrollment this year has
far exceeded former years. The
graduating class is composed of
twelve members.
On Thursday evening of this week
the commencement exercises will
open with a play given by the senior
class, entitled, “Mr. Rob.” The grad
uating exercises will be held on Fri
day evening at which time Rev. S.
i\ Wiggins, presiding elder of the
Athens district, M. E. Church, South,
will deliver the literary address.
Teaching Birds to Sing.
To teach a young bird to sing it 1b
necessary to place it in a private com
partment, so there is no opportunity
for play Each of the young birds are
caged in this manner and in the cen
ter of the entire cage is placed the
old bird. The little ones pick up the
notes given tortli by the old bird and
in a short time are singers them
selves.
DECLINE IN EXPORTS TO
NORTH EUROPEAN LANDS.
Washington, May 17.—Restrictions
on commerce by British orders in
council were credited as the cause of
the sharp decline in American exports
to northern European neutrals during
the last year, according to the bureau
of foreign and domestic commerce.
The figures show decreases to all
these countries except Norway, Spain,
and Switzerland, those countries,
however, buying larger amounts. Ex
ports to South America were more
than doubled.
PRESIDENT TO DISCUSS
POPE BENEDICT’S LETTER.
Washington, May 17.—Pres. Wil
son expects to discuss with Secretary
Lansing shortly the recent message
the president received from Pope Ben
edict regarding the continuance of
friendly relations between Germany
and the United States. The message
also bears indirectly on the possibility
of bringing about peace in Europe. As
soon as he has conferred with Secre
tary Lansing President Wilson will
send a reply to the Pope.
SHIPPING BILL TO BE
TAKEN UP ON FRIDAY.
Washington, May 17.—The admin
istration’s shipping bill was taken up
in the house today under the special
rule which fixed 4 o’clock Friday for
a final vote on the measure and any
amendments.
The republicans opposed the bill
today as democrats favored it.
The republicans charged gag rule
over proposal of a federal shipping
board which would provide for the
board to fix water rates as the inter
state commerce commission fixes rail
rates.
WHEAT CUP TROPHY
EVENT GOUNTRYilLUB
The entry list of the semi-annual
golf tournament for the Wheat cup
has been posted at the Cloverhurst
Country Club.
The goings will be made next Mon
day; the matches to begin on Tues
day.
Those interested are asked to
make a note of this announcement.
The matches will be played on the
new course.
Advertise your wants.
You will find our store convenient, and
our stock complete, and our
prices tke lowest.
If you need anytkmg tkat men wear,
come see
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