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THE POST-SEARCHLIGHT Publiihed Every Thursday at Bainbridge, Georgia. E. H. GRIFFIN Editor and Proprietor Entered at tlie l’ostofllce in Bain- bridge, On., as second class mail matter under Act of Congress March 18th, 1897. Subscription Rates ONE YEAR *1.00 SIX MONTHS HOC Advertising Rstes Advertising rate depends on position, number of insertions and other requirements, and will be furnished at the business Office. OFFICIAL OKI)AN OF TIIK CITY OF HAIMIKIIXJB ANII IlK< ATI B COUNTY. Telephone No. 239 We are coming to understand that all the prayers and baptisms! and communions which the churches can bestow upon us will not make us Christians, so long as we think mean, unchari table thoughts of one another and permit our minds to be filled with malice, envy, jealousy, gloom and despondency. The day of the Convention politician has come to an end in this state and the sooner they learn it the better off we will be. The people are due to control and that time is coming. The real business of life is the making of a happy home. When you come to silt the whole chaff of existence, everything goes to the wind but the happiness we have had at heme. There are none so blind as those that will not see. The gubernatorial campaign is going to prove very interesting and many surprises await those that are now sleeping in apparent security. All about us are beautiful homes which are mere pauper houses, so far as happiness is concerned, because of some one member of the family who is a pretty tyrant, a nagger, a peace destroyer. There are six secular nights in each week. Out of the six some men spend one at home and five at lodge, while others spend five at home and one at lodge. In which class shall we register your name. Decatur county has risen from the damage done by the Hood and is well on her way the most prosperous fall that she has had in many years. The damage while serious is nothing like as great as was feared by those who were at first alaimed. Just a few days will mark wonderful changes in the condi tions or the promise ot any sec tion. Three weeks ago things looked very bright for a banner crop year and now they are some what discouraging but the people still have a most promising out look. It is said that the new Capitol at Macon will be built from Georgia marble and that not one thing will be put in [it that was net made in this state that could be gotten. This sentiment will meet with the approval of many people. If they will only work Georgia workmen on it they will find that [met with great gusto by those that love Georgia. The world would be better if neighbors in little country vil- 1 lages would visit each other more jand try to be just a little more ! agreeable and kindly interested in each other’s affairs. Such visits help to banis household cares, and enable good ideas to go from life to life and home to home for the good of all. The repeal of the Tax Equaliz ation bills have been the storm center about the legislature for several days past. There is a determined effort being made to either perfect or repeal the mea sure. The smaller counties have been hard hit as in many of them the raise in taxes did not pay for the cost of the apparent equaliza tion. Among the very useful rc- presenatives in the legislature is Hon. P. D. Rich of the neighbor ing county of Miller. Mr. Rich has been active this session and is always evidencing a willing ness that the people be taken into a little consideration on public matters. Mr. Rich has made a number of warm friends in the House that like to aid him. The Felder-Eichelberger fiasco has only proven that both of these men were crooks of the worst order and that they have prostituted the cause of prohibi tion to their own gain. In spite of the exposure of their dirty and half confessed dealings there aro people that are foolish enough to expect a sensible man to take dictation at their hands. But no man with self respect or man hood will follow such a pair. The exposure of Tom Felder in the Sunday papers and the ex posure of Eichelberger only goes to show how good peeple can err in taking up a bunch of grafters and allowing them to jump from the mourners bench to the moderators chair and then trade on the good name of a good cause. The anti-saloon league will profit by their sad experience. Too much power makes men mad. This paper warned the anti saloon league every week for months past Ithat they were making a seriois blunder in deal ing with this snake but they wouV. nf 'ift<n, Now they have seen with their own eyes. A newspaper man can say nice and pleasant things about a man and his whole family for two long years and never hear a word from them, and then in one short week, by some hook or crook, get in a seeming uncharitable phrase and get blowed higher than Guilderoy’s kite, and incur their life-time enmity. This is one of the secret pleasures of the business. In hours of exuberance and ex ultation or joyous merriment; in reflective mements when the soul is swept with memories, pleasing or plaintive; in the si lence of religious meditations; or in our little recesses from the homely duties and commonplace labors of the day, or week, they befriend us with their delightful solace, these thoughts of home and a happy family circle. If the reader wants to settle in a wide-awake community, all he has to do is to look at the local newpsapers. A wide-awake, well supported home newspaper is al ways associated with good schools, chinches, active business and intelligent people. It never tails. No business man or pio neer in any community makes any better investment than in the support of a home news paper. Work is a moral and physical uplifter, it is a panaceo for sor row; idleness brings moral decay and furnishes an incentive to crime. The avalanche of crime that is sweeping over our beauti ful land is largely due to the fact that too many would rather steal than work. The life of duty, not the life of mere ease or mere pleasure, is the end of life which makes the great men and women The best prize that life offers k the chance to work at work worth doing. NEILL PRIMARY LAW PASSES. The Neill primary law passed the House by a good majority. The original bill was considerably amended and some of the most LEGISLATURE GOES TO ATHENS. The legislature in a body went to Athens last week to pay a visit of inspection to the state institu tions located in that city. They objectionable features were re-1 left in the early morning and moved. The convention nomina-1 were very highly entertained by tions are a thing of the past and the people of the Classic City, the people will come into their, The visit was a real eye opener own now. The people will pass to the members of the House directly upon on the claims ol [ who had never been to Athens or the candidates and there will be who had never thought much on no more of the juggling of the! the value of the state property politicians and there will be no' over there. The state has thous- more trading of the candidates ands of dollars worth of good and thwarting the wishes ot the. property in Athens and property people as expressed and indicat- j that should be looked after with ed at the ballot box. There was j more interest and care than they some objections to the bill as are. The visit was purely a amended but this came mostly from that element that benefits most from Convention politics. Few of the men who found ob jections were real champions of the people but the bill will cor rect a great number of evils that are now existing in our politics. It is thought that the senate will pass the bill. MORRIS AT IT AGAIN. Judge Morris, the embryo Ivan the Terrible, of the Blue Ridge Circuit made an opening speech social one and the members en-1 joyed their reception at the hands of the people of Athens. Re-i presentative Brown of Clark was j one of the most busy men of the day showing his fellow represen-1 tatives over the city and the buildings of the state. BROWN OF CLARK ACTIVE The activity of Representative' Brown, of Clark county, in the j interest of the state institutions; in his county is one of the main ! in his campaign for re-election to j and unquestionable reasons why the Judgeship of that circuit on those institutions have fared as July 4th in Canton, Ga., and in that speech he tries to account for the action of the State Com mittee in booting him out of the party practically and off the bench and charges them with being un fair. The writer of this was a member of that committee and after hearing the evidence voted to kick him out just in the same spirit of mind that we would to rid the state of a terrible scourge or a filthy contagion. That com mittee was controlled by the highest sense of duty and after hearing undisputed evidence of his tyranny and his rifling the registration list to insure his election he was declared an in terloper and the rightful winner of the nomination was declared so. The stalwart, the unterrified democrats on that committee were not controled by any partisan feeling but by their sense of duty to Georgia and the insinutaion that it was controled by ex-Governor Slaton made by Morris is only a common untruth and Morris is well aware of it. The slippery and slimy political monster from Cobb knows that the evidence, the admissions of his man Friday, one box from Gilmer county as to his dis franchising several hundred men marked his doom. Morris could not stem the tide of evidence when once the people of his circuit knew that the com mittee would open up the hear ing for the truth. They saw to it that the people should have hear ing and his fate was sealed. If the people of that circuit put this tyrant and judical juggler back on the bench there will be one time that Georgia may well hang her head in disgrace and well as they have at the hands of the House of Representatives. They have been held down and were in grave danger of being further cut, but Mr. Brown, who is a very popular member work ed night and day among his friends in the house to save them all he could. The' recom mendation of the appropriations committee to give the Normal school what they had to have this summer is absolutely the re sult of Brown’s work and his direct personol appeals to his many friends in the house to aid him in taking care of the folks in his county. Clark county may send more eloquent men to the house, but they can’t send a man with the Hallalujah lick that Mr. Brown has among the boys of that body. The Normal school owes its appropriation direct to the work of his hard working and earnest man. Quiet and very unostentations he has made many friends among the memb- bers and many of them tell him very plainly that they voted for the appropriation merely on ac count of their personal feeling for Brown. He has that one thing to feel proud of in his work as a representative. He will be watched with interest in the future work of the body in the direction of the state Institutions. Fifty Homes for Small Farm] The Bainbridge Karin Company offers for sale fifty un - ■ of fifty acres each. Fronting on fine public roads, in ro< 1 1!n, ’ r °™ close to schools, churches, railroad depots, telephones and rural 0 * 1 These lands are very level about two hundred feet higher . i l level than the City of Bainbridge. Highly productive of uU f plenty of good water and healthful and will make ideal homes ^ ers. These lands are guaranteed to be of the very best in this U ' ! timber on them now is estimated worth five dollars per acre a i I perfect. ' tl)e ■ Why not buy your farm instead of renting? We allow pay for it. The difference between buying and renting is this- t say that you buy a farm unimproved for one thousand dollars, voi ° farm the first year with your own means sufficiently to occunv ' it. You pay for the farm as follows: You give ten notes of One q ' lars each with interest at 8 percent, from the date of the purclc " one note each year with the interest only on the note you i m* ments will be as follows: At end of first year 1108.00; Seconi' ■ ' Third year $12-1.00; Fourth year $132.00; Fifth year $140.00; Sixtt?* 11 Seventh year $188.00; Eighth year $164.00; Ninth year *17-’On- t' $180.00; Total $1440.00. ' ’ Iel Jf you should rent a like farm instead of buying you would I nual rent oi $180.00. 1>a l And in ten years the principal sum of The interest on your first rental payment would be $10.40 per amum for nine years amounting to For second rental payment interest for eight years,..[[I For third rental payment interest for seven years I” For fourth year rental payment interest for six years"..! For fifth year rental payment interest for five years...III!!" For sixth year rental payment interest for four years... For seventh year rental payment interest for three years For eighth year rental payment interest for two years..II For ninth year rental payment interest for one ’ The total amount paid by you in ten years principal and interest being Three hundred and twenty-eight more for rent than you would pil J purchase of the farm. And the result at the end of ten years would ’ you bought the farm it would be paid for in full with $1440.00 and V t own it with all th? improvement you put on it. But if you rented it i buying it you at the end of ten years would have paid out $176S.oo j n you would own nothing. The above figures seem to be indisputable. We will also sell large tracts of land, from 1,000 to 10,000 acres ir or unimproved on Liberal Terms, for colonizing purposes. Hut will ticipate in any colonizing organization or plan. Also will sell fifty u ed City I.ots in the city of Bainbridge on six years time. One sixth c the balance in five equal annual installments with interest from dateo B. B. BOWER, Sr., Presiden Bainbridge, Georgia. Senator Callahan announced in the last week’s issue of this pap er that he would not be a can-1 didate for the house and thanks I his friends for their kind remarks 1 relative thereto. He takes oc casion to say that the present re presentatives are doing their best and are ably representing the shame. From this distance the [county interest. This kind re democrats ask the citizens of the marks being appreciated by the Blue Ridge circuit to put down editor of this paper who is one this man now and later they will j of the representatives so gener- not have to send the Macedonian i ously commended by the senator, call to their brothers in South | Georgia to come over and help The fiasco pulled off by Tom them prevent this rape of the I „ f ‘ judiciary. The writer has no Felder only Roes t0 show the concern in Morris’ campaign for re-election but vie will not allow error of the cause of prohibition or any other cause using paid uncalled this charge that this! ^atators. While the rail good j committee was influenced bv ; Proh'bit.omsts of the sta e are any other than the facts furnish- j humiliated. by his miserable con- ed in the trial of the case. That i du f ■ t l» « *>» be ver y tenefi-i committee did not fear tke : c ! al to f ,ause as thebest judicial displeasure of the modern I e !" me " t n ° w nse up and ** Torquemada and they did their | nd th ® ? me ' sen ’ ers 11 and duty and no one is better aware of this fact than Morris himself. The best lawyer in that circuit in its merits. Felder and Eichel- bergers double-dealing will in who has Morris’ enmity could,! n ° ^ ay t . ^ « ny , W , iev « * nil .rot a tn ontor hie / prohibition any the less loyal but not get a See to enter his court because it is a well know fact that he is shackled the minute he en ters and has no showing. The people of the circuit are to be pitied if the mam once again is allowed to hoist himself on them. ft will make them very particular as to who they affiliate with See that cool, neatly dressed man, why? F. A. Preston cleanes his Palm Beach suits at 35c. Call phone 237.! Low Excursion Fare =VIA= Atlantic Coast Line Railwa “The Standard Railroad oi the Soath” ===== TO ====== Brunswick, Jacksonville, St. Augustine: St. Petersburg and Tampa JULY NINETEENTH Tickets sold to Brunswick, Jacksonville and St. Augu tine limited to reach original starting point returning n later than midnight July 24th. Tickets sold to Tampa ar St. Petersburg limited to midnight July 25th, 1916. For further information call on or write H. M. DYKES, Ticket Agent A. C. L. Rj| Bainbridge, Georgia. 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 m and let us show you our line- The largest and best in Bainbridge. Geo. H. Fields “THE FASHIONABLE HABERDASHER” BAINBRIDGE. GEORGIA.