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THE BANNER, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 22, 1918.
Mr. J. J. Wigley
Answers Summons
PASSED AWAY LAST NIGHT AT
THE HOME OF HIS DAUGHTER
MRS. B. DUNAWAY.
(From Wednesday's Banner.)
Mr. J. J. Wigley, aged "three score
years and ten,” passed peacefully
away, after a brief illness, last nigh
about 6:46 o’clock, at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. B. Dunaway, at 129d
Boulevard.
The funeral will be conducted by
Kev. A. J. Sears, pastor of the Young
Harris Memorial Methodist church
assisted by Rev. George E. Stone, this
afternoon at half after four ovfloca
from the residence of Mr. and Mrs
Dunaway, and the interment *111 be
In Oconee cemetery. The pall-bearers
who are mjuested to meet at Dorsey’
undertaking parlors at 3 o’clock, will
be Dr. J. P. Waldrup, Mr. H.
Stephens, Mr. A. A. Johnson, Mr. Rob
ert Iverson, Sr., Mr. S. G. Boatner,
snd Dr. J. L. Pendley.
Mr. Wigley was a good citizen, an
exemplary Christian, and a man who
exerted always and everywhere an In-
fluence for the highest good and tne
be?t service. He is survived by five
daughters and three sons: Mrs. B.
Dunaway, Athens; Mrs. E. M. Carter,
Monroe; Mrs. G. W. Langford, Bethle
hem;-Mrs. F. Jt. Scott, Athens; and
Mrs. F. B. Blackwell, Social Circle
and Messrs. J. T. Wigley, Anderson
S. C.; C. H. Wigley, Athens; and E.
J. Wigley, of Camp Johnston, Jack
sonville, Fla. Mr. Wigley had twen
ty-four grandchildren, several of them
grown and several now In the service
of their country in France.
Mr. Jack Bennett
111 In California
The friends of Jack Bennett, n for
mer University man, class of 1X92 or
*93, whose home was in Jackson coun*
ty till 1914, will regret to know be
in a precarious condition in a San
Francisco hospital.. A month ago
tumor was removed from his stom
ach, but complications following the
operation may bring on fatal results
He is a brother of Hon. G. D. Bennett
of Maxeys, and Mrs. E. C. Mahaffey,
of this city; also unelp of H. A. Nix
Esq.
Garke To Furnish
28 Colored Men Soon
The local exemption and selection
board has received orders to send
twenty-eight more men from this
county, under the draft act, to Camp
Gordon on Saturday of this week.
The number will he selected from
thoee colored men In Class One who
have passed the required physical ex
aminations.
Florida Railroad's
Paint Shops Burned
(By Aaeoelatod Press.)
St. Augustine, Fla., Feb. 19.—The
Florida East Coast Railroad com
panys' paint shop here, with Its con
tents, Including five passenger coach
es, was destroyed by fire tonight. Thu
lota is estimated tp be slbout $200,WO
GREENE COUNTY REGISTRANTS
APPEARED HERE MONDAY
Monday afternoon about twenty
registrants' 'under the draft act, white
and colored, from Greene County, ap
peared before the advisory medical
board for re-examlnatlon.
Each afternoon- delegations from
one or soother of the counties In this
district appear for examination by thla
board which la composed of half
dozen Athena physicians and dentist*,
LAMENT.
/The following poem, is reannted
from Wilfrid Wilson Gibson's forth
coming volume, HiU-Tracks, published
January 23d:
We who are left, how shall we look
again
Happily on the sun, or feel the rain.
Without remembering how they who
went
Ungrudlngly, and spent
Their'all for u*. loved, too, the sun
’■ and rain?
A bird among the rain-wet Iliac sings—
But we, bow shall -we turn to little
thlnga v
.And listen to the birds and winds
and streams
Made holy by their dreams,
Nor feel the heart-break in the heart
.of things?
Copyright, 1918, by The Macmillan
Company.
Old Abe Lincoln said that a “man
who can’t make a mistake, can’t make
anything.” But the man who makes
too many mistakes—makes a great
Grow More And—
More Food Stuff
60 URGED GOV. DORSEY IN PRO
CLAMATION; ASKS ATTEND
ANCE MACON MEETING.
(Special to the Banner.)
Atlanta, Ga„ Feb. 19.—Grow more
mgs and get ready to go to Macon
ind line up for a greater food produc-
ion in Georgia than the state has ever
lad. Do this and stave off a food
shortage and avert calamity Is the
basis of the following proclamation is
sued yesterday afternoon by Gover
nor Dorsey:
To the People of Georgia:
Whereas, the government of the
United States has definitely announced
the fact that our soldiers at the front
are dependent on our soldiers at the
plow, and that food and feed supplies
will win the war, and officials of both
he government and the agricultural
oragnizations of the nation have di
rected attention to the fact that it Is
Imperative that the production of
these crops be increased this year be
yond the yield of 1917, but more par
ticularly that It will be disastrous to
permit and decrease In the yields of
last year; and.
Whereas, it has been found neces
sary to bring these facts clearly be
fore the people, of Georgia that they
may realize fully the food shortage
which confronts us and prepare to
meet the situation and avert calamity,
to which end the farming, banking and
commercial interests of the state have
been called upon to assemble in the
city of Macon on February 27, at 9
o'clock, a. m., to advise together and
devise plans and means for concerted
agricultural effort without further
loss of time; and.
Whereas, the Importance of in
creasing at the same time the pork
production as one of the chief essen-
ials of the food supply has been real-
zed, and plans to that end have been
already put in operation, through
eries of co-operative meetings to be
held by the extension division of the
Georgia College of Agriculture, the
United States department of agricul
ture, the federal food administration
and the farm demonstration agent,
with the county school superintendents
and teachers of each county, to bring
about a minimum Increase by each
individual of 10 per cent of the pork
production over that of last year-
dates and locations of these meetings
to be made known through announce
ments In the local county newspapers;
anl,
Whereas, these preliminary meet
ings to be Jield during the week of
February 18 to 23 are ao potent a fac
tor In accomplishing the general pur
pose aimed at through the meeting
to be held In Macon on February 27—
Therefore, I, Hugh M. Dorsey, gov
ernor of Georgia, call on the people of
Georgia to attend these preliminary
meetings to be held the week of Feb
ruary 18-23 In every community, and
urge. upon you the duly of doing your
part In bringing about a minimum In
dividual Increase of 10 per cent over
the pork production, in Georgia, In
19T7. I further call upon all partici
pating In. these preliminary moetlngs
to, at that time select representatives,
f possible from each militia district,
snd charge them with the duty of at
(ending and participating In the gen
eral state meeting called on February
St. I especially appeal to the bankers
and business men of the state to lend
their unstinted co-operation to the ef
forts making, to obtain the necessary
Increase in food production, by aid
ing the farmers and those engaged In
animal husbandry In financing their
operations.
In witness whereof, J-have hereunto
set my hand and causey the seal of
the executive department to be affix-
ed.
Done at the cnpltol In -the city of
Atlanta, this, the 1th day of Febru
ary, in the year of our Lord one thou
sand, nine hundred and eighteen, and
of. the Independence of the United
States, the one hundred and forty-
second.
(Seal) HUGH M. DORSEY.
Governor.
By the governor;
C. A. WEST,
Secretary Executive Department
-IN NEW YORK CITY
Christian Endeavor
Societies Will Meet
N DECATUR IN MAY THE SOCIE
TIES OF YOUNG PEOPLE FROM
OVER THE STATE TO
GATHER.
(By Associated Press.)
New York, Feb. 19.—A new ex
change for dealing in cotton, Unters,
cotton oil, grain, sugar, silks and pro
visions to be known as the American
Cotton and Grain Exchange, with
,T. C. Cooper, of Atlanta, president,
will open here May 1st.
Dealings of the Institution will be
on a ’’spot" basis, with "reasonabls
brokerage charges.” Cooper said.
Former Athens Man.
J. C. Cooper, heading the great new
exchange In New York, alluded to In
tne above Associated Press dispatch,
nas for several years In business In
this city. • He is a brother of Hon.
John R. Cooper, o' Macon, criminal
lawyer, and several times candidate
for the United States Senate. He- Is
a native of Gwinnett county, and has
many relatives in this section.
For years he was In the cotton, cot
ton seed, fertilizer, and cotton oil and
refining company business here, going
later to Atlanta, where he was con
nected with the promotion of big bus
iness projects.
Mr. W. Pierce Jackson, also former
ly of Athens, is connected also, with
Mr. Cooper, in the exchange In Goth*
am.
NO SURPRISE IN AMERICA AT PEACE
(By Associated Preta.)
Washington, Feb, 19.—The announce
ment of the Bolshevik! government’s
Intention to sign a peacec treaty bas
ed upon-' humiliating conditions im
posed by thei Germans In which re
ports said that the Germans included
the retention of Poland and Lithuan
ia, Riga and an indemnity of eight
hundred million pounds—caused no
surprise In official circles here, In
view of the failure of thti Russians
attempt to influencec the German so
cialists to prevent an attack upon any
unresisting people.
Officically it is understood that Len-
ine and Trotzky felt that unless they
responded to the irresistible demand
of the great messages of Russians for
peace. Their regime would have the
same fate as that of Czar Nicholas,
and of Kerensky.
Dr. W. H. Odum, superintendent of
the University Summer School, and
chairman of the local Red Cross Com
mittee on Civilian relief work, left
last night for Washington City, to
confer with Red Cross headquarters
relative to Important state-wide work
in Georgia,-to which he has been-ap
pointed—and for the prosecution of
which he -has obtained leave ot ao-
senes frtfm -the University, Insofar as
his absence from Athens-may jo es
sential to the Red Cross work.
He has been appointed supervisor
of Home Service work for Georgia
and wll make Athens his headquart
ers, but will spend his time In tne
field. This work of new and increas
ingly greater importance and special
requests by the army and navy for its
extension have resulted In enlarge
ment of the work.
The work is a difficult one but of
great possibilities, taking care of the
families back home so that the men at
the front may know of home service
"back here.”
Will Push 8ummer School.
However, it is a part of the pro
gram of extension work to pusn tne
large University Summer School for
Teachers more than ever since the
entire State and Nation is facing a
serious shortage of teachers and there
can be no greater patriotic duty than
the training of teachers. This year’s
school already Is well organized and
under .way. -
On Double Trip.
Dr. Odum goes immediately to
Washington to confer on the work of
tlie Red Cross department. •- But he
goes also to attend and to participate
in the program of the -National Con
ference on Rural Life and Education,
that conference to be held in Wash
ington February 20th to 23rd. He
then goes to the annual convention
of the National Educational Associa
tion, to be held at Atlantic City, and
will return to Athens to begin the ex
tension work in this state.
Work on New Telephone System For
Athens, Modern And Up To The Minute
Is To Be Begun Immediately, Reported
(Special to the Ban:nr.)
Decatur, Ga„ Feb. 19.—The annual
convention of the Georgia Christian
Endeavor Union will be held In Deca
tur May 17, 18 and 19, and it promises
to be the best state convention tne
Endeavorera have ever held in Geor
gia. There will he several hundred
young people present, from all parts
cf the state, and a great time will be
eujoyed by the young workers.
Among the speakers for the conven
tion will be Karl Lehmann, genttral
secretary of the Christian Endeavor
organization of the South, and thosa
who have heard Mr. Lehmann know
him to be a “whole convention b)
himself.’’ There will be other proml
nent workers an:l speakers of Geor
gia- and other states to feature tne
program. Governor Dorsey has been
nvited to be one of the speakers, as
has Col. Napier, ot Atlanta and Presi
dent Gaines, of AAgnes Scott.
The Endeavorers of Decatur are
planning extensively for the conven
tion, and they are arranging a num
ber of surprises and pleasures
the visiting young people.
The Christian Endfeavvor organiza
tion has seen marvelous growth In
Georgia in the past three years. More
than a hundred new societies have
been organized in these recent months
and several thousand young people
have been added as members. The
organization is found in a dozen dif
ferent denominations in Georgia. Miss
Nora Saye, of Athens, is the state
president
The Endeavorera of Georgia recent
ly celebrated . the anniversary ot the
beginning of the organization. It was
thirty-seven years old on February
and throughout the state appropriate
exercises featured the week in which
the birthday comes, this being known
as Christian Endeavor Week. There
are 80,000 Christian Endeavor socie
ties In the world, with four million
members, found in a hundred differ
ent evangelical den minatlons.
Rev. A. G. Richards
In Savannah For Week
Rev. A^ G. Richards, rector; of Em,
mauel church, left Monday morning
for Savannah, to conduct daily Len
ten services for the church there this
week, by special invitation from the
Savannah clergy.
The servises at Emmanuel church
will be in charge of Dr. C. M. Strahan
Mr. Richards having left for each day
a brief, appropriate address to be read
at the service hour.
Packing House Profits
Dropped, Morris Asserts
Private G. A. Gordon
Buried, Jackson County
Private O. Albert Gordon, of 326th
Infantry, 82nd division, from Jackson
county, whose death at Camp Gordon
Friday was noted In these columns
Saturday, was laid to rest In the
Stark family 'cemetery, four milej
east of JefTerson, Sunday afternoon
The funeral was conducted from th-*
home at 2 o'clock by Rev. F. E. Walk-
or. assisted by Rev. S. W.Du Bose
The attendance was one of the larg
est ever Witnessed In that section,
people attending from Athens, Jeffer
son., Gainesville, Commercec, Nichol
son, and other placet.
More than ordinary Interest attach
ed to the visit this week in Athens of
Mr. W. R. Gentry, Commercial Super
intendent of the Southern Bell Tele
phone k Telegraph Co., this week.
Mr. Gentry was here on Important
buiineas of which concerned the com
pletion ot the new telephone plant for
Athena.
Naw Plant Soon.
District Manager Jarrell states that
the work of installing the new tele
phone plant will commence at once
and that with no serious handicap
Athens will, In a very short time, have
a modern telephone system.
It Is true that the handsome build
ing erected by the Telephone Com
pany has been completed for some
time; also that the underground ca
ble work -Is practically completed.
However, It was Impossible to secure
all necessary material and expert men
to Install the new switchboard on ac
count of the enormous amount of
telephone work necesary to be done
at once for the government.
Had Big Extra Work.
The Southern Bell had to furnish
equipment and Install large telephone
exchanges in sixteen cantonments lo
cated In the southern territory. This
was an enormous undertaking, and
while tel-phone development Is great
ly retarded due to the scarcity of ma
terial and men: at the same time, tne
telephone people are supplying the
government with necessary telephone
service and also taking care of a good
percent of new development among
Its patrons.
"A great deal has been said along
the line of conservation of food, fuel,
etc., hut many do not realize that the
Telephone Company has been torc<‘d
to conserve the equipment and mater
ial In order to serve the government
and as far as possible the general pub
lic, 1 ’’ says the manager.
District Manager Jarrell further
sta.es: "The patens could assist
greatly In the handling of lo.-a! ser
vice If they would couatder same from
r patriotic standpoint end conserve in
the use of the telephone locally. The
number of local calls being handled
new is 100 per cent more than when
times were normal. This, ot course,
is due largely to the activity oi many
organizations conected with the war
work that Ja ao necessary at this par-
tie ular time. Therefore, it la believed
that a great many frivolous messages
could be eliminated, thereby reducing
the cumber of connections to be made
on the switchboard, whlph would give
more time for making connections on
ruch calls as are of importance. It
probably will be of interest to a great
many to know that we handle nearly
6,000 local calls per day at the Atb
ans exchange.”
Pre-Medical Courses To Be a Feature
In The University Summer School, ’18
The University of Georgia Summer
School this year will have, m anuf-
tion to the broadened and greatly ex
tended choice of courses for teachers
and student* of all clotaea, a special,
full, comprehensive “pre-medlcai"
coarse for preparing young men for
the medical profession.
I These courses will be given by the
senior profesors In the several depart
ments—Dr. H. C. White in the chem
istry department. Dr. J. P. Campbell
in the department of biology. Dr. L. L,
Hendren in physics, and others of the
faculty.
The war baa created a shortage of
(By Associated Press.)
Chicago, Feb. 19.—Nelson, Morris,
he twenty-six-year-old chairman of
the board of directors of the Morrii
Company testified at the stock-yards
wage arbitration proceedings today
and denied the charge of organised
abor that the packing houtei,’ erf
loyes vote not paid a fair living
wage. He said that workers were
paid aa high wages aa to those In
lie same class In other industries,
Morris declared that the profits of hla
Company were reduced fifty per cent
since the plant began operating under
federal control.
GEORGIA EDITOR AUTHOR
OF INTERESTINGB BOOK.
Savannah, Ga„ Feb. 19—ah Geor
gians are interested In the anounce-
raent'of the sale of “Saturday Night
Sketches" tjy John L. Herring, of Tlf-
ton. The Savannah Morning News
gives him a half column write-up in
their Sunday edition and other pa
pers in the state have taken more
than ordinary notice of Mr. Herring's
book.
physicians—and a dearth ot students
preparing for this all-lmporiant pro
fession. Thousands of boys have en
tered the service; many students have
been taken from their classes in the
medical colleges; many others who
would have entered for this profes
sion are now in lines of federal ser
vice.
So Imperative is the need for phy
sicians that every effort, It is beieved,
should be made to hasten the gradua-
ten of young men In this profession.
The federal government lias even sug
gests that the medical colleges may
have summer terms of their courses
to accomplish what can be done in
this line.
The summer school proposes to In
tensively and thoroughly prepare the
young man for the medical college
and make the time necessary to com
plete that course as limited ae com
plete efficiency will permit.
PADDED PAYROLLS
ARE TO BE PROBED
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Feb. 19—Reports of
padded payrolls in the government
fabricated steel ship building plant
at Hogisland are under investigation
by the department of justice, It was
shown today, after a visit of the
president to the < department and the
shipping board. ’ A special investlga-
tor will be appointed at the request
of the president on the return of At
torney General Gregory from Missis
sippi where he is attending the funar-
al of his mother.
A Regiment of Six
Foot Soldiers Alt
Relatives and friends here have re
ceived photos of a regiment In train
ing at Camp Jackson, Charlotte, N.-C.,
showing a big Athens boy, Fritz Hell-
ner, son of Mr .and Mrs. J. C. Helle-er,
who recetly left for camp. The en-
tre regiment Is made up of magnifi
cent fellows, not one of them under
six feet two or three Inches and not
one weighing less than 180 ponds.
Congestion Eastern
Railroads Relieved
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Feb. 19.—The gradual
bearing up of the congestion of the
eastern railroads was indicated to-
lay In reports to Director General Me-
Adoo. Officials declared that If the
•ate of progress continued, (raffle coa
litions would be restored to noraml
by the middle of March. Loaded cars
have been moved eastward and
empties westward in great quantities
during the past week.-
Cadet Aviator Dies
From Effects Burns
(By Associated Press).
Dallas, Texas, Feb. 19.—Victor L.
Dennis, of DetrolL Michigan, a cadet
aviator, who was burned near here to
day, when his machine fell a hundred
•feet, died this-afternoon.
Next Largest Estate ,
To The Smith Property
(Special to the Banner.)
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 19.—Though no
formal report has been received by
the comptroller general’s department
on the appraisal of the J. B. White
estate In Angusta, that office Jias tak
en a deep Interest in the newspaper
report that the estate will be return
able for Inheritance tax at about $2,-
000,000, and will pay to the state ap
proximately $60,000. This, the comp
troller general's office says, will be
the next largest payment under the
Inheritance tax law to the Jim Smith
estate.
WHAT ARE HOME •
STANDARDS? •
• ••••*•#*••*•#•
This does not mean that the family
needs material help; sometimes th-y
do, more often they do not; but it
means that even In times of war, the
family must live and be clothed; must
have its well days and Us sick days;
that it must work; that it must have
Its problems of child welfare, and
problems of youth; and problems ot
privilege of the Civilian Relief. Com
mittee to work with all families, rich
or poor, to establish a common bond
of social sympathy during the war
times that will help to keep the home
fires burning normally. It means that
families working together in a com
mon aim, in exchanging sympathies
and plans, and In cooperating with
the Civilian Reliaf Committee may
keep up physical and mental stand
ards; may keep up housing standards;
may keep up working conditions; may
keep up normal standards of child
welfare; may help children in school
and kesp them there; and may look
after many odds and ends such as ev
ery family must v contend with.
“It has turned out that the •
forces that fight for freedom, the •
freedom of men all over the •
world as well as our own, depend •
upon us In an extraordinary and •
unexpected degree for sustenance, •
for the supply of the materials •
• by which men are to live and to •
• fight, and It will be our glory when •
• war to over that we have supplied •
• those materials and supplied them •
• abundantly, and it will be all the •
• more glory because In supplying •
• them we have made our supreme •
• effort and sacrifice."—President •
• Wilson. •
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