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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30.
ATHENS HERALD
ATHENS, GEORGIA
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A soldier offers his all. Therefore
yen should olfcr more than your bit.
Thrive by thrift—buy war savings
stamps.
Today's opportunity will likely not
present itself tomorrow.
The rest of the world have decided
to whip Germany for their own good
He who is satisfied with himself is
lost.
The kai6cr has started something
he can’t finish.
There is always too much free gas
floating around for there to be any
shortage.
Prance is said to have a lot of—
leas days, hut none of them are drink-
less.
Kindness is the cheapest and the
Herr thing you have and should be
easiest given.
IBy the advertising methods of its
merchants is the way a city ia usual
ly judged.
A horse ia not a horac whan he
enters the army, for then he is said
to be a mount.
With McA—doo-ing, it remains for
Uncle Sum to Garfield—ize, not to
mention Mr. Bo—boo—Hoover.
Farmers are going to conserve by
' curtailing the cotton crop to a mate
rial extent and plant and raise other
and more profitable crops.
Athena has the consolation of not
tieing dopeless and smokeless on one
of those pool-less and movicicss days.
The fellow always on the fence usu
ally jumps the wrong way -when the
fence falls.
Pleasant A. Stovall, our minister
to Switzerland, is in Georgia, and his
name is being mentioned along with
others with the race for United
(States senator. Outside of Judge
Cobb, he is about tho best senatorial
timber we have—Winder Times.
The city of Athens is maintaining
a municipal wood yard. Already more
than 600 cords of wood have been dis
tributed through the city. City etreet
hands and convicts cut the wood. City-
wagons haul it The wood is sold at
cost to consumers. The city is tak
ing in frorfi $50 to $100 a day. Ath-
%ns hasn’t a chartered right to deal
'in wood,' perhaps; but necessity
'knows no law.—Elberton Star.
[Oil ms MID GRIPPE
DOCTORS FIDO REMEDY
PhyBtciann and druggmts arc elated
over the fact that they have at lant
found a genuine and dependable
remedy for cold*, nore throat and la
grippe. For yearn thev have de
pended chiefly upon the old style calo-
^^nel, which is certaintly fine, but un
HKortunatcly many people would not
J^Hke it because of its nauseating and
■pngcrous qualities-
Now that the pharmaceutical chem
J- Ista have perfected a nauseates* calo-
! mel, called “Calotabs” whose mcdici
■ nal virtues are vastly improved, tin
v doctors and druggists arc claiming
" that Calotabs are the ideal remedy to
abort a cold over night and cut short
an attack of sore throat or la grippe,
They are also finding it most effec
tive as the first step in the treatment
of pneumonia.
- One Calotab on the tongue at bc-l
i- time with a swallow of water,—that's
all. No salts, no nausea nor the
> slightest interference with your eat-
,fhg or your work and pleasure. The
next morning your cold has vanished
and your whole system is purified and
(•freshed. Calotabs are sold only in
' original sealed packages; price
thirty-five cents. Your druggist
- recommends and guarantees them by
refunding the price if you are not de
flighted.—Affvt.
NO TIME FOR
THE GLOOMS.
As Hilly Shakespeare would say, "Now is the winter of our
discontent," etc., and it lias to be admitted that, at this time,
the national psychology inclines toward pessimism.
Almost every fellow who returns from Washington reports
that the higher-ups of the war management are pessimistic.
Investigations are showing up near-scandals and sure-weak-
licsscs. The transportation situation is bad. Many of the
newly selected soldiers are drilling with broomsticks and thous
ands of the recruits have had to he taken into private homes.
In almost every direction there appears a decided lack of mili
tary necessaries. The allies are getting nowhere and are
threatened with a licking while we’re beginning to get ready.
In even ordinary times the winter season has its natural
gloom. The sun doesn’t do a good and regular job of shining.
Rills seem to have a habit of mobilizing. There's a shortage in
pretty near everything save tile furnace’s ability to hum up
money. Wc stay in the house more and, consequently, our
livers work less.
Rut, if the most pessimistic amongst us sit down and think,
we ought to easily put tho gloom to flight.
When Uncle Sam declared war, a little over eight months
ago, the real proposition was to turn a peaceful democracy
into a warring autocracy. And just consider what a democracy
it was!
Politically, we had a busted Republican party, a party that
had dominated pretty regularly, for a half century; a Demo
cratic party that had slipped in by the skin of its teeth; So
cialism growing; progressivism trying to find itself; and all of
us clawing at each other over such mighty issues as prohibition
and woman’s suffrage.
Racially, we were just one beautiful cosmorama of all the
nations extant.
Socially, wc were about as caste-ridden, in one way or an
other, as ever England was in her meanest days.
Commercially, our railroads were headed toward the poor
house, wc had no merchant marine whatever and no adequate
system and organization through which to compete in the
foreign markets.
Industrially, we had got to habitually settling disturbances
by violence and private armies of thugs, with court-martials and
government troops as the final resort.
Martially, we couldn’t even "get” Villa, and even now they
won’t let our professional army fight before eight or ten
months’ training under mere smell of powder.
What we really declared for, last April, was the right
about-face, in respect of all these conditions. Wc 'decided to
convert confusion and democracy of opinion and effort into
national unity and organization for one purpose. It was like
taking all the tongues of a Babel and making them speak in the
language of U. S. patriotism. It was giving birth to an infant
who should take the job of an Atlas. And some of us are
gloomy because the boy isn’t on tho job at eight months of
age!
Behold! we have made mistakes, we have shown weaknesses,
we are not yet ready to take the mighty burden of the world
war upon our shoulders l But the -wonder of it is that we’ve got
the start that we have. Any committee can take a gun and go
out and find spots in any department of national effort that are
bulletproof. Any individual can feel his body over and find
corns, boils, bad teeth, aches of some sort over which to make
himself satisfactorily miserable, if he wants to. But the nation,
or the man, worth while is the one that can smile when some
things go wrong, take another cinch in the belt and go at the
real job fiercer than ever.
Cheer up, everybody! After winter comes spring, and this
coming spring is going to be the growingost spring, every way,
that this good old world ever saw.
THE HIGH COvST
OF LIVING.
Swift & Co., second largest of American meat packers turned
in a net profit of over $42,000,000 in 1917 as compared with a
little over $20,000,000 the year before.
"Our large profits in 1817,” explains Edward S. Swift, vice
president of the company, "were due in a great degree to the
contnuous rise in prices.”
That’s exactly what meat eaters thought—high meat prices
make big profits for meat packers; more than doubling their
profits in one year, the year prices reached their highest level.
Carried on to its logical conclusion—big profits by meat
packers make high prices for meat consumers.
Vice President Swift didn’t admit as much, for he was
talking to the stockholders, mostly members of the Swift
family.
He says that the largest number of beef cattle ever mar
keted in one year went into the slaughtering pens of the Swifts
and other butchers in 1917. That is proof positive that the
supply was big enough to meet the demand, but to clinch this
he goes on to say that more beef cattle were left on American
farms than in recent years. Meat packers wouldn’t buy any
more beef when they had purchased up to their biggest price-
and-proflt limit.
Not long ago J. Ogden Armour, head of the largest meat
packing plant in the world, blamed retailing meat men for high
prices. Other Beef Barons blamed the beef "shortage” and
consequent high prices on the failure of livestock growers to
produce beef animals.
Now, it is evident, neither charge was wholly right.
Swift’s statement shows that there were plenty of cattle
and that the increased profits went largely to Swifts and other
packers.
NO TEAM WORK IN SHIPPING.
Reports have reached Washington
from France that at a time when
every day counts, army vessels have
arrived there from America only
liphtly loaded. They were army ships
When the army carpo was on board
they sailed. It was none of their
business to. load to capacity with oth
er than army supplies. There is no
team work in shipping. Nobody ap
parently has the job of seeing that
the supplies come along in an orderly
way.
BOOM PRICES FOR SEED CORN.
Missouri com seed dealers have
pledged themselves not to ask more
than *5 a buahel for seed com this
spring. If this seems high, let it be
added they can eaaily get $7.50 and be
fore April I can probably get $10.
Seed corn that is good waa never so
scarce. Kansas probably will have
sufficient seed for the itate’s needs
end some to spare. Farmers, fearing
the quantity might be poor, have se
lected more than a normal supply.
FIRST RUMANIAN
ENVOY RECEIVED
Rumania's first diplomatic rep.
resentallve to ther United States
has been officially received at
Washington by President Wilson.
Rumania was formerly represented
hero by an envoy accredited from
all the Balkan states. *
DIAMOND HILL
Once more 1 come again.
The icy weather has changed into
warm windy weather at the present
time, in good time, too, for people
h<i<l almost burned all their wood.
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Matthews vis
ited their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alec
Morris, Saturday night
Little Miss Voncle Rice spent a
while Sunday morning with little
Miss Bessie Ebcrhart.
Messrs. Addison Bird, E. C. and
Fred Roberts returned home Sunday,
after a week’s stay in Atlanta.
Mr. and Mrs. Tildon Hardman and
children, Mr. Adell Hardman, Mr. and
Mrs. Young Scarborough and chil
dren were visiting at the home of
Mr. Will Hardman Sunday.
Misses Ophelia and Birda Bell Mor
ris, Willie Hardman, Bertha and An
nie White, Messrs. Roy Epps, Zed
Guy and Adell Hardman, Howard and
Birch Jones, were the guests of
Misses Myrt and Floy Ebcrhart Sat
urday night.
Mr. Birch drones spent Saturday
night and Sunday with Mr. Guy 11.
Hardman.
A very large crowd attended the
dance at Mr. Willie Hardman’s last
Thursday night, and report a fine
time.
Mr. Clifford Brown, of Camp
Wheeler, was at Jiome Sunday.
Miss Willie Hardman spent Friday
afternoon with Mrs. Tom Carithers.
Messrs. Guy Hardman and Birch
Jones visited Mlfm Myrt and Floy
Eberhart Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Zan Epps, of Alabama, visited
his brothers, Messrs. Ben and Roy
Epps resently.
Little Martha Hart Rice is very
sick this week.
Mr. Emmett Gordon is better now,
after falling last week and hurting
himself.
Messrs. Tom Shaw and Tom Mur
ray made a business trip to Hull Mon-
Mr. Jim Allen was a visitor to
Hull Monday.
' Mr. Jim Murray and Misses Cora
hnd Arlinc Hardman motored to Atn-
ens Sunday afternoon.
NEW U-BOAT SMASHER.
It is a new’ shell perfected by the
•tavy which dives when it strikes the
surface of the water, instead of bounc
ing. The charge can be made to ex
plode on contact with a solid surface
under the water or at a predetermined
depth. The shots which fall slightly
short will be of as much effect as those
which register direct hits. The Brit
ish and French have adopted it.
GLASS OF SALTS
CLEANS KIDNEYS
If your Back hurts or Bladder
bothers you, drink lots of
water.
When your kidneys hurt and your
back feels sore, don’t get scared and
proceed to load your stomach with a
lot of drugs that excite the kidneys
and irritate the entire urinary, tract.
Keep your kidfeys clean like you
keep your bovf-'ls clean, by flushing
them with a mild, harmless salts
which removes the body’s urinous
w&stc and stimulates them to their
normal activity. The function of the
kidneys Is to filter the blood. In 24
hours they strain from it 500 grains
of acid and waste, so we can readily
understand the • vital importance of
keeping the kidneys active.
Drink lots of water—you can’t
drink too much; also got from any
pharmacist about four ounces of Jad
Salts; take a tablespoonful in a glass
of water before breakfast each morn
ing for a few days ami your kidneys
will act fine. This famous salts is
made from the acid of grapes and
lemon juice, combined with lithia,
ami has been used for generations to
dean and stimulate clogged kidneys;
also to neutralize the acids in urine
so it no longer is a source of irrita
tion. thus ending bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot in
jure; makes a delightful effervescent
lithia-water drink which everyone
should take now and then to keep
their kidneys clean and active. Try
this, also keep up Hie water drink
ing, and no doubt you will wonder
what became of your kidney trouble
and backache.
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BORAX
l.
BORAX is a natural crystal of magic properties
not possessed by any other substance on earth. When
placed in the water used in the laundry, kitchen and bath,
it becomes an invisible giant, working wonders for the cleansing
and brightening of the home and the lessening of household labor.
Borax is a marvelous aid to soap wherever soap is used. It’s the
Borax with the soap that does the work because Borax is the greatest
water softener known to man, and soap works better in soft water.
Used in the laundry
it saves soap, time and rubbing.
Makes clothes hygienically clean
and sweet smelling.
Used in the bath
Used in the kitchen
it cuts the grease from pots and
pans, puts a polish on china and
glassware and keeps the kitchen
sink clean and sweet.
it cleanses the pores, refreshes the
skin and removes perspiration odors.
20 Mule Team Borax Is an Everyday Household Necessity
Fxe/so is as exhilarating as
thrills of victory
your stomach to a cold botti
When you think slow and move slow and act slow—when
you are“down in the mouth”and*upin the air?don’t slow
down and get behind. Instead, order a bottle of.
(SxeiiMh
and feel "old ambisK'spur you on to"do thingsVThree glass
fuls of EXELSO daily will make you enjoy your work,your
test and your sleep. EXEfSO should be in every home. It's
good every day for every member of the family. Dorit accept
substitutes, and don’t let the sun set today without older-
ing a case delivered.
HAMM EXELSO COMPANY-ST; PAUL,MINN.
RHODES PRODUCE COMPANY
Distributor ATHENS, GA.
