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It Is to be fcoped Mfss Rankin in Congress will
not feel that she is paving the way tor petticoat
government.
The world seems to be giving Germany the
horse laugh on her latest stunt.
With the iotroductipn of a manlen with a
rose in her hair, the story of the German plot
against this country would make a lively movie
film
FOR A BOND ISSUE.
Cartersville is letting other towns get ahead of
hex in some things. It is said there is nothing
new unde;- the sun. It is at least tfhe that there
is nothing new but once. After our vision or real
ization gets its first grasp, a thing ceases to be rew.
If a ptapcn were absent in a country where
eyerything was in a torpid state for a quarter ol a
oentury and then came back to one of our modern
towns he would look 3nd wonder. We get used to
things around us. That is.wfiy we area little cal.
lons to advancement if we are even fortunate
enough to abide within its course,;
Now,if we hadn’t caught the spirit.of advance
meat that has possessed other towns and that is
an inspiration having its parentage in the times it
self we might have existed yet in that state of tor*
por which would have made us ashamed of our*
selves.
Cartersville has not been without that public
spirit needful to proyide those agencies for ad.
vancement that have carried villages along into
towns and towns into-cities. .S,he is rather beauti
fitly supplied with ihose utilities that draw and
hold desirable citizenship and without which set
tiers would give her the everlasting go-by. Aver
aging up her public utilities with, ocher towns of*,
like Bi2e, few would teally eclipse her in the ex--
tent and value of these.
Her self owned water plant, sell owned elec
tric plant, self owned gas plant, self owned school
buildings and her own city hail make up a pretty
good showing. With these some might say for
rest awhile, and some have said this by their votes
against bond-, but this some has been so few as
to be inconsiderable. Three times the city has voted
bonds but from some error or irregularity the vote
went to naught and the intended legalized anthori
ty (or actual work was not acquired.
We want to ask if there is any reason why the
majority of sentiment has changed since this vote,
and because we have failed in going after a thing
we want and need is this any reason why we
shouldn’t go after it again?
Cartersville has three pressing needs and the
sooner we go after them the better and the more
surely it will allure the new investor and settler
and put us at the front with other towns and ahead
of some.
We mean seweiage, paved streets and addi
tions to our school baildings.
Going after these now would not be like piling
lip a debt for all our utilities at the same time, as
good big sections of our previously issued bonds
have been ratired.
Marietta, Dalton and a number of other towns
art planning new strides, especially in the securing
of paved streets, and many of these are already
ahead of ns in the matter of sewerage:
The people should wake up aud reach out for
the new things that will make for. a greater' town.
We need a bond issue for additional improve
ments. . i
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The Atlanta Georgian has been coming out
with red ears during these patriotic dpys we have
been having. Uncle Sam’s colors,'Another .words,
have been adorning its title- Mome. * Red eared,
red eyed or redheaded, as Billie of the sticks
would say, the Geoigian is a larrupin’ good paper
aod none more worthyily bear the ear marks of pa
trio tiara just now.
. The weather has been such as to give the farm
er plenty of time to make up his miad as to what
he is going to plant
, i Germany, will next be sepding out some up
marines to com mind fhir'Hty. . >
\ ila is no longer Mexico’s nine lived cat.
Tbev say he is at last about l&iocked oot physical
ly.
A cry of defiance against the nickel apiece po
tato: ‘‘Rot ye!”
Politics will be laid aside for awhile, bfit we
still have the European war, the high price of
food, woman scffriige and the prohi question to
engage u=.
A PEOPLE AND THEIR RULERS. '
There arc said to be three million Germans
among our population. They are a- high class
thrifty, intelligent lot of citizens. Because Ger
many among all foreign countries, has acted in a
way to make trouble with this country, many
German residents here have voluntarily expressed
their readiness tp prove allegiance to this then
adopted country in case of trouble* between the
two nations, even to the takiug up of arms and 10l
lowing,J,he tlag. And practically all who have not
volunteered sic h assurance would do the same
thing. The German people are known the world
over for A heir intelligence, tljeir progress!vencss,
their activity and their courage. Asa nation
.they have, much to loa*t -of. .In considering the
strained relations now existing between Germany
and this nation our people ought to keep in
mind what the German people are aside from what
their rulers may la* or may do.
Love of country is comuieudable in any people
and the loyalty shown by the Germans to their
country in the present great struggle is to their
credit. Dutifully they have endured the hard
ships and braved the' dangers of the field for the
cause of .their’country as they see it,
While this is trtfe, We believe iu the hearts of
the German people, if the truth were known, there
would be little sanction of the methods used by
the rnlers in dealing with neutral countries and es
pecially with the United States...
Iu the world’s history, in our opinion, no
such diabolical piece of intrigue was ever known
as that revealed in the laf}t ten days, where Ger
many has secretly endeavored to array Mexico
and Japan against the United States to the extent
of an attempted iuvasiou of this country over
Mexican soil. Search the annals for tactics of
the most savage of the world’s j inhabitants and
you will find nothing ,to match it.
We were just thinking if onr own president,
and his associates and advisers had done such a
thing what a cry of condemnation would have gone
forth from odr-own people. The people ought to
thank God that fairness and justice are virtues pre
served along with patriotism and our liberties and
that we have a ruler that would be above such, ox
even the inhuman cruel mandate that the sea is
ours regardless of the precious lives of innocents.
These differences signify largely iu comparing
the difference ir. democratic and evau semi-mon
archical nations.
,T*' 'The war lus,t displayed by Germany is largely
the outgrowth and teaching of:a war bred and war
mad ruler. "* 7 '
' When the Franco Prussian war ended Ger
many considered herself the principal and benefi
ciary of a glorious military triumph. With Alsace
Lorraine gained aud some juicy indemnities from
the. conquered nation, it looked like they had
walked it over France. Where there might have
been maguanimity there was a lingering hate. The
present William was an offspring of two conspicu
ous figures in the war, his grandlather William,
and hte fa'irer, I’nncc Frederick William. Fame
hnu V upo,p the shoulders of the elders, why
not on the younger? The present William was a
mere lad, but it might be said he was rocked in a
military cradle. It will be remembered in his
earlier life that lie was spoken of as being crazy.
This .must have been’a mistake in the common ac
ceptance, but i,u a somewhat different one the
charge might batter fit him after these long years,
because of his wild display of the ivar lust. There is
n6 Leiliug jn^t.how early the idea of military action
possessed him. it is generally understood that for
forty years he devoted his greatest efforts at build
ing up a military' structure the greatest the world
ever knew and able,to defy the powers of the world
And su.ch really looked his magnificently equipped
army that marched out against its old enemy of
years with little Belgium as a footmat.
If it didn’t show itself on the surface, we can
all imagine what his dream was—a world conquest.
This now seems proven since at first theory was
Germany was protecting itself, but now what was
Germany wanting to protect itself against a nation
that had shown its forbearing friendship and had
never done anything against her, as her purpose
of ultimate invasion and conquest as shown in the
Mexican plot 1
This mav, he might have thought,be consider
ed a rainbow Maybe it is, but l will use
*tbc three colots,• .white, brown and yellow, first,
and the other colors will be the grCen of envy, the
blue of terror and the. red will be blood.
Then, bred into the mind too deep to dislodge
is the idea o'' uiviue origin and divine right. The
God of war is the God of the Universe and God
is with me—“Me unt Gott.” Why, even bis
moustaches were trained to noint heavenward.
Infusing this idea into his soldiers, they maieh
wi-h the thought, God takes care of His own.
We heard a German say who viewed eouser- *
vatively the cause and action of the Fatherland
that William’s dream was to conquer the world
‘and pat a son at the head of each nation as ruler.
Maybe he thinks there would be room for at
least one across the Atlantic.
It might be that we would yet get into that
war with something more than paper wads and
pop guns.
Everything was bedraggled in Washington
inauguration day but patriotism. *
Petition For Amendment of Charter.
Georgia, Bartow County:
To Thi Superior Corkr of Sail*
County
The petition of The American Tex
tile Company respectfully show s:
FIRST.
That your petitioner The American
Textile Company, is a corporation
incorporated by the Superior Court of
htuH county, J:m 28th, 1910, for a lerm of
twenty years, and has in agent and of
;,ce und u place of business iu said|couu
>•
SECOND,
ftiui under its charier your petitioner
has the right and authority to issue pre
ferred stock the amount of one mill
: ion live hnndred thousand dollars (sl,-
50.000,00! at one hundred dollars (SIOO.-
otn per share, drawing cumulative div
idends ut the rate of eight percent' per
annum, payabla serni-anuaily, on the
hirst day of Angus! and the first day of
February of each year, out of its sur
plus profits for each year, in prefer-
ence to ali Common Stockholders; and
has heretofore issuer! such preferred
stock to the amount of two hundred and
filtv thousand dollars, ($250,000 00)
w Inch, except (he dividends, is now out
! standing.
THIRD,
That by virtue of its said charter,
your petitioner has the right and option
u> redeem said preferred stock, or any
purl thereof, at any dividend hearing
nme, or any other time as may he
i agreed upon between your petitioner
I and the holders of said preferred stock
to be redeemed at the face value thereof
, nud the unpaid dividends, the same to
I be selected by your petit.oner 1 * Board
‘■f Directors, in its discretion
FOURTH,
Thai your petitioner lias decided to
redeem ail of said preferred stock, and
desires to amend its said charter so as
to issue preferred stock drawing eumu*
lative dividends at the rate ot six pars
cent, per annum payable semi-annual
ly, on ibe first day of August and the
first day of February of each year, in
preference to all Common Stockholders,
upon the redemption of said preferred
stock now drawing cumulative divi
dends at the rate of eight percent per
annum. . <
FIFTH,
Thut this application lor innamitnent
of its said charter has been authorized
by proper corporate action as appears
from the certified abstract from its min
utes, which is of file along with.this po
tion and which is as follows:
RESOLUTION.
Atco, Ga„ Feb. 16th, 1917.
"JVHEREAS, The (American Textile
Company.has now- outstanding $250,000.-
00 of 8 per cent cumulative preferred
stock; and,.
“WHEREAS, it is now thought that
money can eaaily be had at a less rate
than 8 per cent:
* BE.IT RESOLVED, by the stock
holders of The American Tex tile Compa
ny, in annnal meeting this day assem
bled, that the Roaid of Directors of said
Company be, and hereby is, instructed,
by the authority vested in it bT the
Company’s corporate charter, to, under
the terms ol the said charter, retire the
entire $250,000.00 of 8 percent cumulative
preferred stock now outstanding and
issue in lieu thereof $250,000.00 of ; per
’cent cumulative preferred stock, re
deemable at the Company’s option at 105
and accumulated dividend, upon sixty
days’ proper notice prior to any divi
dend paying date, just as soon as the
necessary amendment to the charter can
be procured giving the corporation au
thority to issue 0 per cent cumulative
preferred stock.
“BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,
that the said Board of Directois of the
said The American Textile Company
be, and hereby is, authorized to, thru its
President aud Secretary, take the nec
essary legal steps to promptly securp
the neeessary amendment referred to
above, it being necessary to procure this
said amendment for the reason that the
charter of the said The American Tex
tile Company as it now stands provides
only for the issuance ol 8 per cent cumu
lative preierred stock. ,
“AND, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,-
that the said Board of Directors of the
said The American Textile Company
be, and hereby is authorized to after the
issuance of the said $250,000.00 of 6 per
cent cumulative preferred stock used to
retire the present issue of $250,000.00 of
8 per cent, preferred stock, issue, at such
time or times as may seem to it to be
proper additional C percent cumulative
preferred stock, redeemable at the Cora
pan£*s option at 105 and accumulated
dividend, upon sixty days’ proper uotiee
prior to any dividend paying date, to a
total amount not exceeding $500,000.00.’’
Atco, Gu., February loth, 1917.
1, J. A. Miller, Secretary of The Am
erican'Textile Company. Atco, Ga.,
do hereby certify that the abovO is a
true and correct copy of a certain res
olution passed at the annual meet
ing of the stockholders of the said
The American Textile Company held
at its principal office at Atco, Bartow
County, Georgia, February 15. 1917.
J. A. MILiLEK, Seify.
WHEREFORE, your petitioner pravs
FIRST.
That its said charter be amended so as
to authorize the issuing of said preferr
ed stock, drawing oumulative dividends
at the rate of six per cent, per annum,
by striking from said charter the words
"eight percent.” wherever the same oc>
cur therein, and inserting in lieu
of the word "six percent.,” so that the .
holders ol the preferred stock that may
hereafter be issued shall be entitled to
cumulative dividends at the rate of six
percent, per annum, and that said char
ter remain, in all other respects, uu
changed, and of toll force and effect,
SECOND,
That, after thin petition has been hied
and published as the law provides, an
order be passed allowing and granting
said amendment. And yortr petitioner
will ever pray.
The American Textile Company,
A. W. Fite,
Attorney for Petitioner.
Georgia, Bartow County:
Filed in office of the Clerk of Bartow
Superior <’onrt Feb.26th, 1917.
W. <7. Walk n,
Clerk.
Georgia, Bartow C >unty;
i do certify that the above and foregoing
is a true and correct copy of the petition
for amendment ol the Charter of The
American Textile Company, as filed in
the office of the clerk of the Superior
Court of Bartow County Georgia ou Feb
26th, 1917. Witness my hand und seal oj
said Court, this Feh. 26th, 1917. •
W, C. Walton,
Clerk of said Court
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HOWREN’S MARKET
will find at our shop meats at all
times and anything that is carried in
the fresh meat line. All we are kindly
asking is for the ladies to please give us
their orders early so we cart get them
out and won’t delay their meals any.
So order what you want and we will
do the rest. : : : : :
i hank you
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Phone 364 hi. 10 Easl Mail Stretl
THE SO CALLED IMPOSSiJ
ACCOMPLISHED 1
" lmt appears I
soaie people is often ■
tainrnent by others. Oite a I
we look at a piece of ,. 0| ‘ u J
machiueyy we know it K . J
ble for us to make it |, u{
man who has learned Ull( | 1 I
how it was an easy job.
heard some people say that
things were impossible ~
lish when some one v.’onM J
along who knew how ami J
very easy. Many J
saying that they will „ot |, e J
to live if the necessities of |j| e '■
much higher, but they wiu J
some way out of it. \\ eaft 1
many things after we leam M
that the other fellow can t d 0 J
cause lie did not learn hmv I
Nearly all the merhants , n <;J
tersyille are now saying it j, JB
possible to sell any more ■•alien 1
8 cents a yard because the
sale price is above that ami J
say it is impossible any
sell six bars ofOctaeou soap
spools of Goats thread fm , J
because this is below the
sale price of these articles, | m (
one has learned how, In* ran
on at it, and that is just the
son that Hardaway keeps oo -el
ing all these things at the pn 8
named, he know , how m
der present conditions, F,u
he has studied, learned and pra
tieed underbuying and uudersell
i ing all competitors for spot cash
until he has got it to a line point
and finds it easier to do than ut*
had not learned that featurem tin
business. Thousands ot peaplß
all over this county can- ttstiffl
that he undersells all eomprtitorß
lor spot cash and that is positirl
evidence that he undersells aoA
the l'act) that he keeps it up aofl
stays in business is strong eircuJ
stantial evidence that he unite,
buys lor spot cash. .The fact ty
. lie has learned how to do then
things is the very reason that in
also continues to sell set en pack
Star Naptha washing powders foi
25c. and the Jackson C. C. tine
and 81.25 corsets at 60e. and *1,0(1
the old price, and women's and
mens’ (se. underwear sit the old
price of SUC. and bleached and un
bleached 0 and 10 quarter Pepper
ed sheeting about sc, a yard chea
per than sold elsewhere' and all
the best made table oil cloth at
23c. instead of 30c. as at other
places.
And all kinds of crockery, glass
ware, enamelware and tinware
about 25 per cent below market
piiees. And still sells Xtmnally’s
$1.50 indigo blue overalls at ••'l3l
a pair and ]Oo. bordered curtain
goods at 7 l-2c, A great big a"
sortrnent of all kinds of summer
dress stripes and plaids and white
goods at prices that surprise ami
please all the ladies who look at
them.
Hardaway Cash Cos.
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