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THE POST-SEARCH LIGHT Published Every Thursday at Bainbridge, Georgia. E. H. GRIFFIN Editor and Proprietor Entered at the I’ostofflce in Bain- bridge, Ga., an second class mail matter under Act of Congress March 18 th, 1897. Subscription Rates ONE YEAR $1.00 BIX MONTHS 50c Advertising Rates Advertising rate depends on position, number of insertions and other requirements, and will be furnished at the business office. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TIIK CITV OK HAINHKIDGK AND DECATUR COUNTY. Telephone No. 239 The enthusiasm for war seems now on the rise and the people will not rest until this matter is pushed vigorously. The day of temporising seem to have passed in America. Several bi-ennial sessions bills have been introduced into the legislature and there seems to be enough sentiment to pass them this session. The multitude of^bills on the subject indicate that the politicians have seen that the people demand them. The House has lots of im portant matters before it this session and they are showing an Inclination to really work and not play this summer. Something like 12 important measures of both commercial and civic nature are on their passage and they will be looked after very care fully from all evidences. The Savannah matter has got ten to be a minor thing since the parties on both sides have about destroyed their strength in the House. The chances are that both sides will not be listened to and the old precedent followed. The charges and counter charges of both sides have cost them con fidence. The talk of Captain Ennis, a member of the National Gaurd who has been called to the colors and who is also the member of the House from Baldwin County was very enthusiastically receiv ed. The house gave him leave of absence enthusiastically. THE MACON CELEBRATION. The Legislature and Senate were entertained by the people of Macon on the Fourth in a most attractive and interesting way. A big barbecue was given to the visitors and courtesies of every nature were shown them from the time of their arrival to the Central City until their de parture. The entire city was H over to the visitors and ——en vied with the other a good time. The fipetus to the capitol bposition as many of mt really know just offered the people lfiH in her bid for the jne shows to the peo- ■P^he is solid and substan- Kd not full of hot air, and .nat she will throw around the capitol such atmosphere as will be real beneficial. The move ment is a live one and will come to a head in a very few days now as the members w ho favor the bill are very active and mean to push every advantage to ad vance it and get a final show down on the bill. The day was a most pleasant one and all that went enjoyed themselves. Ma con will put up a fight that will long be remembered and it is thought that her chances are fine. THE SOUTH AND MEXICO. (By James Callaway, in The Macon Telegraph June 22.) Of all people in the world who do not want war it is the people of the South. The war between the North and the South was enough for us for the next 500 years. Every man from 16 years old to 60 was in the Confederate service. The whole South was a military camp. Crepe hung upon the door-post of every household. As Sheridan said: “Wherever I go I leave the women and children with nothing but eyes to weep with.” The .South mourns her dead, for she sent to her armies the very flower and chivalry of her towns and cities and her country homes. The South has missed her sons. Their places have never been filled. Every mother of the Confederacy wept for the loss of a son. If was not freedom of slaves that hurt the South. It was not destroying her property and burning houses where only women and children were shelter ed but it was the loss of her sons. You can rebuild houses, you can remake fortunes, but you cannot restore to life those dead sons. It is the South’s irreparable loss. And what a loss! We feel it every day, we see it in every line of business. Look into your legislative bodies and only a few men there are fit to be law-makers. So the South needs her sons. She has not a one to spare. The North never missed her dead. Her population was too vast for that. And in case of a prolonged war it will be unfair to call on the South for her quota according to population, for in several States the negroes outnumber the whites, and in Georgia sixty counties have negro majorities. In the War of the Sixties it was safe to leave our homes de nuded of its white men, for the women were safe, a fact the North never counted on. Indeed, the surprise of Lincoln’s life was that when he issued in 1863 his emancipation proclamation that our soldiers did not have to leave the fields of battle to come to protect their women and children The North never understood the patriarchal character of Southern slavery. But conditions have changed. The North, for political purposes, has educated the negroes against the whites of the South. Let the white men go as in the War of the Sixties and no farmer’s home would be safe. Hence it is asking too much of the South to spare her sons for foreign war in same proportion as other States with no negro problem. Again soldiers are called ac cording to population. Our ne groes are included in the census; they are part of the population. But to call out our white boys according to population would be putting our white population on double duty. We cannot afford this double duty. Circumstances forbid denuding the South too closely for her white sons. Lincoln said the war cannot last but some three months, tor the soldiers will be forced to return home to protect their firesides. In that he was wrong, owing to kindly relations, home like relations between the negroes and their white people. Unfortunately such is not now the case. One could write a book showing how Republican policies severed the old-time re lations, broke up the ties, and de tached the negroes from us—all for political purposes. But what was done was done. It remains done. The negro States like Georgia, Alabama, South Caro line, Mississippi and Louisiana cannot spare too closely her sons to fight even for America. Hence the West and North must not look to the South to do more than her share. Prudence for bids. The South fought the Mexican War. Her soldiers and her leaders, Jeff Davis, Robert E. Lee, Albert Sidney Johnston and Joseph E. Johnston conquered Mexico. And after we won the territories the South by Northern majorities in Congress was de prived of any of the fruits of the victory won by her blood. But that is neither here nor there. The point is that owing to the negro problem, not the result of emancipation, but as the re sultant of Republican policies after the war for years and years, educating the negroes against the whites, conditions are now such that certain Southern States must not part with all her young men. And sad to relate, those women of the North, so active in aiding to make present condi tions such as they are, demand that the 2.000.000 negro women be allowed the ballot and compli cate and aggravate those very conditions. It is not a question of loyalty. The South is the most loyal asset of the nation, and our ‘‘America nism” is vigorous and ardent, but it is a question of home pro tection. The South cannot spare all her sons. We have problems to deal with which other States have not; problems that would have been no problems but for the interference of other States and the government in our affair. The men had ceased that inter ference, but it is taken up now by certain fanatical women of the South which will make con ditions here in the homes and on the farms intolerable if persisted in. Don’t aggrevate conditions here unless your Northern and Western men will release our boys from the duty of leaving home. These ominous home conditions will be aggravated a thousand fold by the passage of the Susan B. Anthony amendment. Suffrage now means that amendment and nothing else. It is the thing de manded. Alice Paul told Secretary Houston they would take nothing else, barter or no other terms. The Anthony amencment revives the fifteenth amendment, puts negro men back into politics, ex tends the ballot to 2,000,000 negro women, who have no back taxes to pay and are ready for the fray; and those advocating it under stand it and have accepted the terms and results, besides reject ing the great Southern principle that to the States, by the people and not by the Legislature, as contemplated by the Anthony amendment, belong the right to control and regulate the franchise. The Anthony amendment repu diates this right and places con trol and regulation under Con gress. So if war must come and our State be denuded of her brave sons, spare us the results of con ferring the ballot on negro women to join the negro men in night meetings, the negro men being brought back into politics by the workings of the Susan B. An thony amendment. Alice Paul told Houston, “We accept noth ing else.” MONTHLY TRADE DAYS Special monthly trade days for Bainbridge took definite form Thursday afternoon at the special meeting held by the di rectors of the board of trade. An unammous vote was cast in favor of this commercial enter prise and enthusiastically en dorsed by the members present. The movement was considered wise in suggestion and timely in behalf of both increased sum mer trading and extended com mercial patronage. That advan tage might be secured at once, a committee was appointed to interview all merchants in be half of a concerted movement Uso.uo; Total $i44u.uo. to urge this issue to a success- ,f y° u sI)0u:d rent a like farm instead of buying von i ful conclusion. The first month- T”,“ »bej Ti ., n rr„“rr t 'rrr!:;r arranged for either the last! for nine years amounting to Friday and Saturday of July or F° r second rental payment interest "for eight years For third rental payment interest for seven years ror fourth vear rent til nnumont ininmei Fifty Homes For Small Fai The Bainbridge Farm Company offers for sale fifty of fifty acres each. Fronting on fine public roads, in Mi 1 '" 11110 close to schools, churches, railroad depots, telephones am] ntiRtl These lands are very level about two hundred feet hi^T" m8il level than the city of Bainbridge. Highly productive 0 fi i abov < plenty of good water and healthful and will make ideal hoi S f8rm ers. These lands are guaranteed to be of the very best iVttu f ° rs ‘ timber on them now is estimated worth five dolla-s per acre mS C0U: perfect. ‘ e and the Why not buy your farm instead of renting? We allow pay for it. The difference between buying and renting j s th J° U , tt: say that you buy a farm unimproved for one thousand dollars r ° farm the first year with your own means sufficiently to oep’nn . it. You pay for the farm as follows: You give ten notes of 1 lars each with interest at 8 percent, from the date of the nureh Uml one note each year with the interest only on the note you *' 1 ments will be as follows: At end of first year 1108 00- SeeJi ' Y ‘, Third year $124.00; Fourth year $132.00; Fifth vear $140’oo- Si.J* 81 L Seventh year $156.00; Eighth year $164.00; Ninth vear trZ 1 C. I kill I ii I. 'IV*n I I in nn J Jpjj rio.40 per annum" The many new county move ments have swamped the house and there seems to be a disposi tion on the parts ot house to dis courage them in every way. They have been taking up so much time that there is little room for any other work to be done unless they are discouraged. County rooters are trying to cut some counties as much as three times. Tom Felder is still in evidence and is about the most reviled man so tar as his political character is concerned that we have any knowledge of. His open advocacy of anything seems to frighten the boys off until they can locate the negro in the woodpile. the same days for the first week of August. FARMERS’ INSTITUTE FOR FIRST SALE. In as much as farmers’ insti tute had been contemplated for Bainbridge to take place about August 1st, the officers of the board of .trade decided that it would lend a double advantage to the farmers and rural people generally to hold the institute upon one of the regular trade days. The fact is apparent that much of the information given at these institutes apply with equal force and advantage to the wife and children of the farmer and that the best edu cational results are obtained by the presence of the entire family. In fact it be may declared with much force that the boy is fast becoming the father of scientific corn and pig raising in Georgia; also that the girls! are the instructor of their mothers in canning and the preservation of food.. At this meeting special attention will be given and subjects selected to conform with the interest aud education of the boys and girls in the county. Reviewing the list of speakers ler this institute the best author ities available will he secured. Commissioner of Agriculture, W. A. McRae, of Tallahasseee, Fla., and Mrs. G. H. Mathis, of Gadsden, Ala., representing the Bankers’ Association of Alaba ma, and one of the best inform ed authorities in the south on agricultural and economic ques tions will be especially invited to be present. Combining special trade ad vantage with unusual education al interest through the institute, Bainbridge should be galy with visitors for those days. The time and occasion is auspicious for boosting the town and affords an opportunity for every citizen to become a committee of one to push this matter to a successful conslusion. If Bainbridge is your home or the site of your busi ness, where your future living is to be made, then be one to interest and attract to Bain bridge the largest possible num ber of rural customers. Dis tance has very little meaning with those out of town customers and they can and will find a way to get to the town or city where they get the most con siderate personal treatment and the most and best merchandise for their money. Bainbridge has both of these elements in abund ance-personal good will and de sirable merchandise at unusually advantageous prices. Therefore let us make ready to rejoice in a closer personal touch with our rural neighbors, also increase our commercial interests by serv ing this trade with financial ad vantage. Join 'the Club have all your Pressing done for $1.50 month. Julian Hodges. Phone 373. Quite a lot to Fee around At lanta now. Soldiers and brass bands and all other panoply of war add a zest to the work of the statemen. i j—■— v cu years ,. or l?", T ear rental payment interest for six years lor fifth year rental payment interest for five years Tor sixth year rental payment interest for four years l or seventh year rental payment interest for three years' " I-or eighth year rental payment interest for two years lor ninth year rental payment interest for one....... The total amount paid by you in ten years principal and interest bein» lliree hundred,and twenty-eight more for rent than you would . purchase of the farm. And the result at the end of ten years would i you bought the farm it would be paid for in full with $1440,00 anti own it with all thj improvement you put on it. But if you rented it J buying it you at the end of ten years would have paid out $176,3.00 in , you would own nothing. The above figures seem to be indisputable W e will also sell large tracts of land, from 1,C00 to 10,000 acres or unimproved on Liberal Terms, for colonizing purposes But will Ucipate m any colonizing organization or plan. Also will sell fifty thVsY ln H ,he Clt y, 0f Bainbridge on six years time. One six?Iim the balance in five equal annual installments with interest from date B. B. BOWER, Sr., President! Bainbridge, Georgia. Low Excursion =VIA= ran Atlantic Coast Line Railwal ‘‘The Standard Railroad ol tbe South” ===== TO ====== Brunswick, Jacksonville, St. Augustine, St. Petersburg and Tampa JULY NINETEENTH Tickets sold to Brunswick, Jacksonville and St. Augui tine limited to reach original starting point returning m later than midnight July 24th. Tickets sold to Tampa an St. Petersburg limited to midnight July 25th, 1916. For further information call on or write H. M. DYKES, Ticket Agent A. C. L. Bainbridge, Georgia. R> Hear Ye! Hear Ye! READ DRESS TALK NO. 11 Many a man is hot and irritable simply because his underwear is uncomfortable, yet he doesn’t realize it. Here you will find the comtortable kind right in the weight, and perfect in fit, whether you are long or short, stout or thin. Step in and let us show you our line. The largest and best in Bainbridge. Geo. H. Fields "THE FASHIONABLE HABERDASHER" BAINBRIDGE. GEORGIA.