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FRIDAY. JULY 6, U81.
THE BANNER-HERALD
n AH ?' ATHENS, GA.
pt Saturday and on
pany, Athena. Ga.
Published Every Evening During the Week Ki
Sunday Morning by The Athena publishing O
Publisher and General Manager
.... Managing Editor
DID IT EVER OCCUR TO YOU?
A Little of Everything And Not Much of Anything.
By HUGH ROWE.
EARL B. BRASWELL
CHARLE8 E. MARTIN
Mail Matter under
Entered at the Athens Posloffice as Second
. < the -Act ot Conpivss Mar<-h_3. 1879.
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
elated Press is exclusively entitled to the ow
paper, , and S aiso'’t'he l 'loeu| r news published therein. All rlchts of
ft publication of speehtl dlspslehes ar<
Andrew C. Erwin, Rowdrf Phtnlsy
»' de gun. and Rastus here
ahell in and de corporal
loujard/’
' The Asaociat
• IlcWbri of all i
(President.
and Treasurer.
fog Company. not|
tion should be add
WASHINGTON AND WILKES
2 Three years ago when the boll weevil hit the sec-
2 tion of north middle (leorgia and apparent desolation
5 erinned entire communities many of them "dried up, >.
Z a X* thc people moved, farms were aban-
t Soned and bu. im" came almost to a standstill, even
I ^ WiTkcs 0 countv 1 was inThe very mi,1st of this early
“ invasion of the cotton pests as they swept on towards
"county, one of the old ansti
The local club of the Na- < in ba
tionai Cones DrinKcr's club is Jthrov
increasing in membership as |j, u || s
rapidly us the bylaws ot the I •yj
organization will p« rinit. This «>r<J< r I > \\
only allows two members to bo I ‘Kals
elected each month and for I hat;
reason the membership t* not
restricted in numbers, but in
personnel. It now lias a mem
ship of six. or hair a dozen. T
are a number of applicants on
waiting list who will he pa
upon from month to month by
Hirers in rotation as filed, s-
* announced by President <If*
Te two members elected for
sonfh of July were Dink Mart ,n J tant position and in Iiis selection
nd It. R. McKee. Daily m • .n^ r 11 ,j„. ruembers of that organization
are liekl an,I a acncral dlseaailnn n« mistake. We extend to
I The election of Edgar B.
Dunlap, of Gainesville, state
commander and chief qf the
I American Legion, was (fi de-
! servetf tribute td this sterling
•young citizen of Georgia and
{bis record on the battle fields of
| foreign lands in protection of his
/home and of bin country. He Is
sfVndldly qualified for the Impor-
Athens Twelve
Years Ago
Compiled By HUGH ROWE
oJili-
him
! sine*
* home of many a tinRui-
icratic towns of the state,
bed family but a town that
past accomplish*
historj
5 has never rested on its
imMmzesm
switched ic n,,;,,. wp'iittlnff that county
ssracsM “.»■»••«* ■»» «
® C °TtnJ Washington Kiwanis club has been one of
SthJactive agencies in working out the problems of
IB.'SKA*»^j'sSXL'tJ&’SS
l^WUkcs county was one of the first counties of the
^^^"n'ot^ci^secUonsT'wus 0 a ^leader in'co'-operativc
fetw n e g hatX^ P ld h manr^ L hcr enlerprises that
show that this county did not give up but rather
*weSt to work to get adjusted in the shortest period
* ^dblc to the new conditions of less cotton and mo
’g.Sttr^at'Xmpnhed by Washington and
=WUkes county is that the first post of the American
-Legion in Georgia, perhaps in the United States; to
e verv white ex-service man in the county is at
Sw^ington pud was represented in Athens this
Sweckiat the convention by over 200 .members.
2 That is,a community that others in this sext on
, Smight well emulate. It is community that did not
Soult/when the invasion of'the boll weeyil damt. It
SL a community that will be back on its feet when
• fathers are floundering around in discord and with no
■ ^definite plans in view. It is a community that is
^WORKING and working hard;
J f ’ NOT TOO MANY IRONS
5 Ah appeal war made In the American Legion con-
Kvention here Thursday for that organization to foster
•Child Welfare work in Gcorgiu. It brought on a
brisk debate, the resolution finally being referred to
Sa committee for report next year.
I, The delegates showed rare wisdom in at least dc-
Kerning action on this question. The Banner-Herald
fields to no one in the belief that Child Welfare is
Bone of the most, if not in many respects the most, im-
Sportant problem before the nation today. No one has
ftnorc interest in protecting the children of the land
Egainst disease mid giving them the opportunities in
feife they should have than has this newspaper. This
«s not the point however.
£ The American Legion was organized to perform
—.i very definite task. Thnt task has not been per
il, irmed. It will never be fully complefed. It will
gdlways bo necessary for this Organization to function;
•function as perfectly as it has up until this good day.
{This task is to stand up for pure Americanism, lend
“aid and cncourugement to the disabled veterans of
ithe World War, keep alive the sentiments born of the
"great war and, in short, “For God And Country.”
6~ To take on another work, that of fostering Child
“Welfare Work, however meritorious may be that ap-
-pcal, Would bo to toad up on too much. It is the
. ..nature of men and organizations to take on too much.
Wmuny men in this- town are staggering under too
Sieavy a load of public service and personal business
Jfrctivities. They cannot resist the appeal the need for
-certain work make:- to them. Organizations arc no
-stronger than individuals in this respect. We' all
JJ-.bould be more interested in Child Welfare than we
Sere but it is not the peculiar duty of the American
ZLegion to interest lis. It is to be hoped that the
“Lcjripn will eventually turn down all such resolutions
Via stick to its gun:;—its fight for the disabled vet-
Jerans and a great principle—and not put too many
-iron* in the fire.
E • HE PLOWED COTTON STALKS UNDER
, • • Dr. R. H. McFa,Hen’s farms, near Chester,' S. ’C.,'
jt Jarc a splendid example of what plowing under stalks
Sdn November will accomplish. Tho farms arc per-
- Jfectly free from boll weevils with the exception of
“forty acres.
£ .On 820 acres Dr. McFadden plowed under every
^Jcotton stalk and this land is absolutely free from boll
HKweevil infestation, lie is poisoning on the 40 acres
^■hd did not plow under and on these 40 acres there is
heavy infestation. On the 320 acres, thus far, he
, _hqs not found it necessary to poison,
t X jDr. McFadden is fimly convinced of the wonderful
• result'’ to be achieved by plowing under all cotton
k' Sst&lks, trash and debris, in the fall, and this fall he
g f plans to turn under every cotton stalk on his farms.
"At first, burning cotton stalks was strongly urged,
^°! destroy the boll weevils, but this has been found
>Jm to-, be unnecessary ,as the boll weevil docs not hiber-
‘Jnqte in tho earth and by plowing in under the cotton
- stalks, tho elements of plant food they contain arc
“ returned to the soil.
Z The American Legion convention that has closed
; in A then#, was the* liveliest held in 4pany a day. The
- boy# who five years, ago were bearing the khaki and
M teaching the Huns how to be tame seem to have lost
birHittle of their old time pep.'l. - 1
dhhI|j <if both
•haractc*r takq up tli»‘ Him
nPinbara during lh** ahort I
ted for the meetinga wl
butt ham fixed by Uie president 'not j,’j s t '
/tin over tlitee minutes. |
PreHidrnt Gidley will read
paper at the next meeting on “V
Goff«»e Does Not Gome Under
Volstead Art." The president
authority on tile use of coffee
i connisseur of liquid drinks. '
members are looking forward v
much pleasure to this meeting.
'incratiulations of the most
type and express the desire
iuccessful admlulstratlon of
the affairs of the Legion during
of ;
The nflqroea of this country
contributed much towards the
•uccess of winning the world
war. Not only on the battle-
ield did they pnrtjcipate. hut thel
a test
loir
the
| President Harding is singing
a “Swan Song” throughout the
western country on his “swing-
around" political campaign, but
it is not “getting him anywhere.
He \n claiming credit for a great
many things and predicting pros
polity as a result of the republi
can administration, but he is meet
ing with reverses of opinion among
the followers of his own camp. Jfe
declared himself Wednesday, *n a
patriotic address that he was oP-
, ~ j posed to war and that he hoped
services '\; re r , Pn ‘ ,, r 7 ,n that the United States would move
!i»- I nvoid war by ndherring to the
: permanent court of International
I hist Ice. And. yet ft was President
Harding and his followers who des
troyed the lea one of nations nro.
gram as had been formulated by
President Wilson and today, on ac-
count of the acts of tho president
and tin* republican leaders, the
world Is all it sen and no agree
ment reached through which we
can hope fur 'peace should an oc
casion arise to bring on differ
ences between the nations. I’resl-
de’nt Harding has been n failure
and a great disappointment to the
lenders of his party. His defeat is
assured, if nominated and should
some other than Harding ho nom
inated by the republican convention
defeat Is certain. The republicans
are at sea for h candidate and the
prospects for tho election of a
democrat wore never brighter or
more encouraging than for the
campaign of 1924.
f camp life and at stations
iriwn was not only needed but r>>-
•ulred In-order to fit and complete
ho sinews of war. Here Is a good
•no told on the negroes in sor-
•Ice. It Is typical of tho nvo-aec
negro and In keeping with his dally
Hf" In otl’or avocations. It says:
“When tho ccneral Inspected nr
••rHIlery outfit of colored negro
soldiers In France ho wns struck
by the snappy neatnes ami sold
lerlv bearing of ono ptirtlouln
member of a pun learn.
“What nro your duties.” sob
'Mcr r ’ queried the commander-ln
•hlof.
“I'so the dofll, fonder fn do Swn
-oW the lad ennliod.
“And w-lint is that?" the general
t bfm.
“Whv. » jus* opens do little do
The Disease That Strikes
Like Lightning.
Be war* of Indlgcatlon—the Ula-
ease that kills more peoplo and kills
them quf.kir t)mn nny other. Thin
warning, by phyuidans, In particu
larly applicable this season of the
year, when your system “leli
down" In tone and vigor with the
first approach of warm weather.
What are the warnings that na
ture gives ,/ou of the approach of
indigestion? The medical books
tell t:».: l. Gas, which means that
your food Is fermenting instead of
digesting. 2. A feeling of fullness
or oppression In the region of the
Uoimich after eating. Tills mciuu
that the gas has ballooned your
stomach and Is pressing up
igainnt your heart and lungs. 3.
A dull, lazy feeling, which means
that you are not getting nourish
ment from what you nro eating.
I. Restlessness, tin-refreshing
sleep, which means that thu poisons
of iudigcstln mo disturbing your
hrnln and nerves. 5 Hornetimes,
pain and fluttering around the
heart, though this symptom may
• nme later.
• !>on't take uhanceu with Inrilgea-
■ Ion—you are too apt to lose. If
you have had any of tho .symptorm
mentioned above, get .your digestlvt
orgatie to work at once with Dan-
No*, the greatest prescription that
was ♦ver written for a digestive
tcnlc. Dan-Nax makes your di
gestion "perfect and complete."
You feel Its helpful effect from Hit
very first dose. Get a bottle of
Dan-Nax today at nny drug storu
Dan-Nag is no much superior fo
any other remedy for Indigestion
that the manufacturers have In
structed every druggist to refund
tl»e price ’tf you do not g-t relief, ao
It coats you nothing if you am not
delight* d with results. Delay
might be dangerous get Dan-Nax
today.—Adrertlsemet t.
Friday, July 7, 1911
Hop. Thomas K. Watson and
Governor Hoke Smith announced
their ‘ar'actficy lor the United
States senate, the election to be by
the legislature.
Robert Voting, a negro convict,
made bis escape from the Hall
county chaingang for the third
Resolution to Investigate lynch
ing in Walton county wan defeat
ed In the legislature.
Defeated resolution asking can
didates for the United States sen.
ate to promise to resign tf elected
and run in a primary.
Legislature adjourned until Mon
day. •
Milton B. Saye, fell from kitchen
roof of John B. Wior’s on Hill
street and broke both arms.
Interesting statistics relating to
Hu* educational train run by the
mate College of Agriculture show
ed that from February 7, to March
2:1, forty-seven days on the road,
the train made 154 stops, visited
120 counties, attendance 250,000;
miles traveled 5,467; railroads co
operating 14.
A summary of the work done
the organization of the
State College of Agriculture, showi
the magnitude of tho work: Meet
lugs held without trains, 144; with
trains 756.
Attendance without trains 76,633;
with trains 576,633.
Distance traveled without trains.
:9 mites; with trains, 178.S16
j-woriU jtjb IfeV ta’TJitete this! fact
|on Chew imwwrtles; • j ‘ J |p
! A GENTLEMAN from Atlanta in
our city this week says tho legis
lature now In session, is going to
work with a new broom and clean
things from Dan fo Bershtba. There
will be great rattling among tho
old political dry bones. Several
state departments will he inves
tigated with considerable topping
off of superfluous officers.
mile;
Days traveled without trains,
1097: with trains. 1522.
Chattanooga defeated Atlanta
baseball t*yni by a scorn of 8 to 2
TIKE A CALOTAB
Tho Purifiod and Rafinorl Calomc
Tablet that is Free from Nauies
and Dungor.
What will huthiin Ingenuity . d«
•xt ? Smokeless. powder, wlrejesi
Ugr.aphy, horseless carriages
dorlotw Iodine, tasteless quinine
now comes Calotabs, the nnuae.a-
H3 calomel.
For biliousness, constipation and
Indigestion the perfected calomel
tablet Is u practically perfect rem
edy. ns evidenced by the fact that
tho manufacturers have authorized
ill druggist* to refund the price H
tho customer Is not "perfectly de
lighted" with Calotabs. One table
nt bedtime with a swallow of watei
that's all. No taste, no nausea
no griping, no salts. By mornln*
your liver is thoroughly cleansed
.•ml you are feeling fine, will) a
hearty appetite.. Eat what you
nlcaac—no danger—go about ymu
bunlnea'i
Genuine Calotabs are never sold
In bulk. Get an original package
sealed and trade-marked. Price
ten c»»ntfl and thirty-five cents.--
Advertisement.
"my
Rheumatism
r is gone-* 9
■‘'T'HERE are thousands of you
1 men and women, just like I
once was—slaves to rheumatism,
muscle pains, joint pains, and hor- I
title stiff.
Nervous Woman '
Complete Wreck
Telit How She Wu Made Well
bj Lydia L Pinkham’t Vegetable
Indfauupolis,Ind.—“Nowl want to
toll you just wbat Induced me to take
your medicine. It
seemed that I had
some kind of
weakness so that
I could not carry a
child ita full time.
The last time I
was’troubled this
way 1 had a ner
vous breakdown
and was a com
plete wreck. The
doctor thought I
would not live, and
Inevsr be wetland
Around Athens J
With Col. T. Larry tiantl j
t well, that 1 was not go-
. , , . I did ttmt I would nevtr be
ness. I had strong again. But I told them I was
the wrong going to got i
idea about fog to ”
rheumatism me '
fo'r years. I! CoiL r
didn t realise 11 aeon rot strong again and had three
that increas-i more children. I have recommended
in
Is had the : and if v
had always been’
completely knocking out rheu-1 Mary F. Herrick, 234 Detroit St,
matic impurities from the system.
That
S. S. S.I , ,,
strength I used to have years ago I
I don’t use my crutches any
more.” S. S. S. makes people talk
about themselves the way it builds
up their strength. Start S. S. S.
today for that rheumatism. You’ll
feel the difference shortly. »
g 8. S. Is »14 it all c-cJ
a g blood- , the Vegetable Compound ever atnce,
ells had the : indif you could see me now yea would
ffect of I think I had alwaye been weu. —Mrs.
Hary F. Herrick, 234 Detroit St,
Indianapolis. Ind.
Lydia E. pinkham’sVegetable Com-
,hy I began using
Today I have the
sound is an excellent medicine foe
expectant mothers and ahould ba
taken during the entire period. It
basa general effect to strengthen and
tone up the entire reproductive sys
tem, so that ’t may work in evenr
inspect effectually aanature intends.
Read
Ift^r3f4rfrldj
- Want Ads,
.MORGAN GAU ; .DINC, of Col
bert, aays it !ookif Mkc insects will
take all of thetr crop. Worms are
destroying early corn and other
pests are preying on melons and
garden vegetables. Mr. Gaulding
says in years gone by farmers
were not bothered wlf* visitors and
ho attributes their •.umber and
:o to tho wanton destruction
of bird life.
‘ LUKE DEAD WYLER, a promin
ent farmer of Elbert county was in
town Wednesday. He ^ay* tho oxo-
1 iih of negroes has caused many
farms to remain untillcd and they
•e still leaving for tho north. On
imriUjr morning of li»st week 175
jnegrocs hoarded tho train at EK
burton. Before the |>oII weevil ap
peared Mr. Deadwyler sayB they
raised on their farm 160 Jmfes of
otton a year, but this year they
lave only four acres planted in
cotton. His wheat crop turned out
well, and they will make plenty of
food He la still holding cot-'
ton grown lit past years.
HON. FRANK SHACKLEFORD
says tho saw mills and exodus
have taken at least forty per cent
of labor from off the farms, and
this in tho very class of labc-r that
made cotton. Ho aays under the
most favorable clrcumitancep
Grogia cannot make over half a
crop of cotton this year. Tho same
•uditlon exists in other cotton-
producing states. The staplo will
bring o high pr«re next fall.
HON. W. F. JONES, clerk and
treasurer of the city of Elberton,
an in Athens this we*k on busi
ness. He says everything in mov.
tng along nicely In hla burg. Mr,
Jcne3 has done a great deal of
work for hl3 city aud found time
to prepare a history of every’ young
man from Elbert country who en
listed in the World v/ar.
WORK OF RENOVATING the
building formerly occupied by the
Elite as a new home for the Dor-
sey Furniture Co., Is rapidly pro
gressing and tb:s popular estab
lishment will have one of the bc3t
arranged furniture stores in Geor
gia.
THE (MANNER In which the
crowds in our city ‘ his week were
handled proves that Ath-rns la
equal to any emergency. Not near
all the «rooms tendered by oor
citizens for the young soldiers were
needed. We should make of Athens
the greatest convention city In
Georgia.
THE SIDEWALKS on Lumpkin
street between Hancock avenue
and Doueherty street have been
paved with concrete and when the
Improvements now working on the
Vnn Canon-Wall building are com
pleted that square will be one of
our best business sections. Athens
la spreading out In every direc
tion.
HENRY MEAIvOR, whose duties
take him all over the city - say:
considerable Improving is now go
ing on In Athens, and it gives em-
ptovment to labor, skilled and un
skilled.
J. H. BEUSSE. who left for a
tour of Europe, has safely landed
at Hamburg. Germany, and Is vis
Ring his kindred on his father’s
side. He had a safe and pleasant
voyage across the pond.
THE REHABS and Summer
School students all read the Ban-
ner-Herald. Number have stopped
the writer to inquire about points
of Interest nround Athens wrltter
«i» In out naper, as they want to
visit them. Some will take fn Wat
son Snrlng and the Indian Mound
and others the historic old homes
in Oglethorpe roor*y and the vol
cano near Winder. Advertisers
THE CLIMAX Hosiery Mills are
running on full time and part of
the night. This mill makds the best
hosiery on the market and a de
mand for its goods is all the while
increasing. Mr. Dudley, Its man
ager 13 one of Georgia’s leading
young manufacturers.
DEDRICK WINTER, of Winter-
ville says they are keeping down
the boll weevil by poison, but
many species of insects are des
troying their other crops. A swarm
of grasshoppers have appeared and
are cleaning *ip vegetation as they
go. Cannot our agricultural college
give the farmers some plan to
fight the worms destroying early
corn and the other Insect pesas?
JOHN WELCH has just returned
from a trip to Burke county and
says that Mr. Hill, discoverer of
the Hill Mixture, has 800 acres In
cotton, now loaded with squares
nd blooms, on which he has used
his mixture, and he will give SI
for every boll weevil found in his
crop. Mr. Flanlgen, on Thomas
street, has a stalk of cotton from !
a cotton field In Darke, on which |
Hill’s Mixture was used, that con-.
tains 87 squares and blooms.-There J
Is no Question but by tho use of:
i olson we will grow a crop of cot- j
ton thin year.
\V. H. Rose, Macon; Ivan Richard
son, GaincsYiue.
J. W. Bird, Atlanta; J. W. Ware,
Atlanta; T. J. Everett, Atlanta;
Miss Carolin Fain, Atlanta; O. B.
Harris, Carrollton, G...; Dr. Daisy
M. O. Robinson. U. S. P. II. Ser
vice.
NEC.RO farmer
BRINGS IN COTTON
BOLL TO ATHENS
Gus Jackson, a colored farmer
living in the Sandy Creek district,
brought In a cotton boll Thursday
and was exhibiting It around town.
Jackson says he has planted eight
acres of cotton to the plow and
that he has fine prospects now for
a good crop.
Body of Former
Gwinnett Deputy
Is Found in Field
DULUTH, Ga.—Victor Dowls,
former deputy sheriff of Gwinett
county, wall found dead In a field
at his home near here. He had been
dead about two hours when found
Recently .Ur. N Dowls shot three
men iu an* effort to place them
under arrest He retired Jrom of,
flee as deputy ifeeriff about four
months ago. ! V * ?/j
No cluo has been found as
the slayer of the former deputy
BILTMORK FOREMAN
SHOOTS TEAM DRIVER
ATLANTA. Ga.—Sam Jones, ne
gro team driver employed in con
struction work on the Biltmnre
Hotel, being constructed on West
Peachtree street, was rushed to the
Mercy Hospital Wednesday morn
ing, in a critical condition as the
result of being shot by D- ...
White, a foreman in charge of the
team-’ tors-
White, who is being held without
bond pending the outcome of the
negro’s Injuries, told police that hi
shot Jones .after the latter had ad
vanred on him in a threateni
manner after having refused ...
obey an order given him by White,
EXTENSIVE RIOT
SPRING FI E LI J, M ass.—A n
tensive riot broke out at ope o’clock
this morning In the vicinity of th
Springfield exchange of thtf
England Telephone and Telegrnpt
Company when a gang of 2,000
.strike sympathizers were charged
l.y a dozen regular police and moi
than too military police reserv
At 1:30 there had 1k?cu three n
rests.
Athens Visitors
ATHENS VISITORS
Among those visiting in Athcnt
Friday were, W. C. Jackson, At
lanta; E. C. Pearce, Atlanta; J. B.
H. Brittingham, Atlanta; H. L.
Coleman, Now York City; W. H.
HlgKinbotham^ Atlanta.
F. Barnes, Jr., Atlanta; A. E
Amoden. Macon; C. F. Baker, At
lanta; Dr. and Mrs. D. W. Ho
don, LaFayetto, Ga.-; Mr. and Mrs
McKay, Daytona, Fla.; R. li
McKay, Little Falls, N. J.
H. J. Fisher, Atlanta; W. R.
orum, Atlanta; C. E. Kirk, Atlan
ta; E. L. Voegl. Atlanta; O. L.
Dobbs, Atlanta; E. H. Moo'n, At
lanta; Phil C. Steed, Atlanta.
Mrs. C. F. Ware, Birmingham,
Ala.; Miss Pearl Gordon, Binning,
ham, Ala.; W. R. Mathowson. Au
gusta; R. W. Chambers, Atlanta;
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