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Temperance
Vfctes"
(Conduced fiy the National Woman'*
Christian Temperance ITnion.)
THAT ADDITIONAL FIVE WEEKS.
When one stops to consider that this
nation Ims been spending two and a
half billions dollars a year for drink,
it Is conceded that the government
•vas bound by all the rules (if the game
to give us war-time prohibition. Mark
It Shaw, statistician of Boston, puts
•t thus:
During th:> last Liberty loan drive I
picked up a circular entitled, “Turn
the Key on Knlserlsm—lnvest In Lib
erty Bonds,” telling what Liberty bonds
of various sizes would purchase for
the hoys “over there.” Using these
figures it is interesting to see what we
could do with the money that we pass
over the hnr for hoove every day while
the hoys are in France.
Our drink bill for one day would
pay for any one of the following Items,
and for one week It would buy all of
them! Did you think of this during
W. S. S. week?
1. Buy a $5 pair of shoes for each
of 1,300,000 men.
2. Purchase gas masks for 253,000
men, at $27 each.
3. Clothe and feed 22,830 soldiers in
France for an entire year, at S3OO
each.
4. Furnish fi.850 motor rolling kitch
ens, at SI,OOO each.
5. Buy 4,500 motor ambulances at
$1,500 each.
6. Construct 137 base hospitals with
500 beds each, at n cost of $50,000 per
hospital.
7. Fully equip 2,055 hospital wards
with 50 beds each, with beds made up
and linen in reserve, chairs, tables,
mirrors, foot tubs, 120 pairs of pa
jamas, bath robes und towels, at $3,-
850 per ward."
Think of the things we might have
bought for the boys if the country were
going dry January 1, 1910, Instead of
July 1.
OWN THEIR CARS
“Tollers In other cities may bo pur
chasing autos for pleasure and for the
benefit of their families,” says the Se
attle Star, ‘‘but In Seattle the owners
of the hlg pay envelopes have devel
oped the auto spirit to such an extent
that It Is an Integral part of their
working day.
"They don their working clothes in
the morning, run out the car, and
away to work. The ride Is fresher than
In crowded street cars, and gives a
fellow a better appetite for his work.
"Many wives of workingmen drive
their husbands to their employment,
and then go shopping In the machine
or return home.
"Groups of single fellows living In
apartment or boarding houses club to
gether and purchase autos which are
used for the to-and-frotn-work trips
and for pleasure In the evening.
"In the industrial district, where
workmen’s cars are parked, a row of
garnges, service stations and tire shops
have sprung up to handle the new con
dition.
" ‘We want our men to own autos,’
says I>. E. Skinner, head of the Skin
ner & Eddy plants, ‘it testifies to their
thrift and brings them to work In a
better and clearer frame of mind.’”
A TIMELY DECALOGUE.
I have been studying the commands
that have been Issued to the civilian
army by the various departments of
the United States government, and I
can pretty nearly make an excellent
decalogue. It would read something
'•lke this: Conserve food; conserve
fuel; conserve railroad and steamship
tonnage; conserve labor; conserve
health; conserve efficiency; conserve
the children; conserve money.
And the Women’s Christian Tem
perance Union, to complete the deca
logue, would like to add tht'se two
commands: Make America safe for
the nation’s defenders, the brave boys
who will return when the war Is over
“over there.” And second, help Amer
ica lead the world In the war against
Germany’s strongest ally, the liquor
traffic.—Ajina A. Gordon.
THE MOST DANGEROUS OF ALL
CHEMICALS.
If a Hagen of alcohol were offered
to a student of pharmacology to test
as a curiosity, and he applied tho
standard methods of physiological ex
periment to It, he could but come to
the conclusion that he was dealing
with a more dangerous chemical than
any now available In the whole range
of materia medlea, not second to
opium or Its derivatives as a destroyer
•of character, a disturber of function
and a degenerator of tissue, and he
would be quite Justified in advising
the prohibition of Its manufacture and
use as a beverage.—Dr. Haven Emer
son, Health Commissioner, New York
City, In Boston Medical and Surgical
Journal.
ENGLISH WOMEN DEMAND PRO
HIBITION.
Recently the women of London Join
ed In a mammoth parade on behalf of
wartime prohibition of alcoholic
liquors. The procession was headed
by Lady Cecelia Roberts, daughter of
the Countess of Carlisle, president of
the World's W. C. T. U. Led by the
martial music of a brass band, the
women passed through Trafalgar
square, where a resolution In favor of
prohibition during the war was dis
played, with a sian asking all in fa
vor to raise the right hand.
How Atlanta Can CONTINUE to Receive
an INCREASING Supply of Electric Power
in the Future as in the Past—
Two practical business questions face the Georgia Railway and Power
Company. Each is of vital importance to Atlanta.
Here is the first one:
How to continue furnishing ample service at rates based on costs and
conditions of 25 years ago, in view of these two facts:
(a) In 1918 the Company paid out in cash, for labor, taxes, materials and
supplies, $1,780,000 MORE than in 1916, practically this entire increase being
paid out in Atlanta; this being true notwithstanding on the average it em
ployed regularly fewer men in 1918 than in 1916, owing to the great difficulty
of obtaining labor.
(b) On top of that enormous increase in costs in two years, the Company
now is just beginning to pay the new rates of fixed by the National War
Labor Board in 1918. This will add for labor, in 1919, between $400,000 and
$500,000 to the 1918 increase, making the total estimated INCREASE in costs
in 1919 over 1916 about $2,250,000. Almost all this increase is due to the war.
Practically all of this higher cost of sorviee pertains to the community of At
lanta alone —is paid out right in this one city.
Increases in our cost of operation outside of Atlanta have been and are and
will continue to be inconsiderable.
Not one penny of the cost of anv new construction is included in the increase
of our operating expenses as stated above. Nor do those figures reflect any por
tion of the more than $2,000,000 we already have paid out for starting our new
water power station on the Tugalo river and installing the sixth unit in our Tal
lulah Falls station and on account of constructing the Burton storage reservoir,
not vet finished. The increases have no relation whatever to the more than $17,-
000,000 we have spent in cash since 1912 on nothing but water power development.
The answer to this first question is that we must be granted just rates
for our services so as to offset, partially at least, the increased cost of opera
tion.
Here is the second question we face:
How to obtain $2,500,000 to complete the 65,000 horsepower Tugalo wa
ter power development.
Inability to borrow money has forced us to discontinue this construction
work, after spending $500,000 on it.
This development affords the only way by which we can quickly and sufficient
ly increase our capacity so as to have a surplus of power to meet the demands of
Atlanta and vicinity.
The answer to this second question is that if we are allowed to collect
JUST rates for our services, our credit will be restored so we will be in posi
tion to borrow the $2,500,000 necessary to complete the Tugalo development.
The backing of Atlanta is necessary to the solution of both these ques
tions.
The two resolve themselves into this one: WILL ATLANTA BACK
THIS ENTERPRISE?
We can borrow this money and go on furnishing ample service and har
nessing water powers if Atlanta does back us by seeing that we get just
rates.
GEORGIA RAILWAY & POWER CO.
A HUGE HOG.
The big hogs arc said to be in
best demand, and (In’ National
Stock Reporter tells of a hog
that was carried to tin* stock
yards in St. Louis that brought
over a hundred dollars. That
paper says:
“Charles Campbell, a noted
stockman of Jersey county, 111.,
and one of the biggest shippers
that patronizes this market,
sent in a stag this week that
weighed !H!0 pounds, which sold
at 5i2.00 per ewl. This hog, af
ter being docked 70 pounds,
brought Mr. Campbell
which is certainly a big lot of
money for one hog that is to be
slaughtered.”
Just think of one hog bring
ing over a hundred dollars. Hog
raising ought to be profitable as
they can be raised at very little
cost when one knows how. —
Alabama Times.
Australia’s Artesian Basin.
The aftcslnn basin of Australia
measures 500,000 square miles in ex
tent, and is said to be the largest
known In the world, comprising 870,-
000 square miles in Queensland 00,000
n South Australia, 83,000 in New South
Wales and 20,000 in the northern ter
ritory,
KNOCKS OUT PAIN
THE FIRST ROUND
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makes Sloan's the
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aches, soreness, stiffness, painful
sprains, neuralgic pains, and most
other external twinges that humanity
suffers from, enjoys its great sales
because it practically never fails to
bring speedy, comforting relief.
Always ready for use, it takes little
to penetrate without rubbing and produce
results. Clean, refreshing. At all drug
stores. A large bottle means economy.
Sloan’s
Liniment
Kills Pain
Drones In the H
"It Is civilization which has given
us the woman who tolls not. who .ives
for pleasure, who takes from life gifts
for which she makes o,> return.”—Ex
change.
Sh-’ sspeare’s Schoolmsster.
In th' London Times it was recent
ly stated that Rev. Simon Hunt, R. A.,
who was Shakespeare’s schoolmaster
from 1571 to 1577, became a Jesuit on
April 72. 1578, and died at Rome ns
penitentiary (confessor) on June 11
1555.
Land For Sale
160 acres, 4 1-2 mile 9 south of Dacula, Ga.,
4-room house, 3-horse farm, barn, good pasture.
25 acres of original forest, plenty of wood, pub
lic road divides it. Selling tor only $35 per acre.
40 acres red land, good house and outbuild
ings, 4 miles east of Winder, at S9O per acre.
330 acres, Hancock count}’, Ga. 4-horse
farm open, 3 tenant houses. Thousands of feet
of second-growth pine and hardwood timber, 90
acres in bottoms, at $25 per acre. Easy terms.
785 acres m Hancock county, 6-room dwell
ing, 7 tenant houses, large barn. 3 miles hog
wire fence, on public road and mail route, phone
line. In 1 1-2 miles of schools, churches and
stores. Gin and corn mill with 30-horse-power
engine and boiler goes with this. 10-horse farm
open, and over a million feet of saw timber.
Sold together at $25 per acre, or will cut and
give choice at S3O.
Tenants wanted for S-horse farm.
City property for sale and rent.
Loans made.
W. H. QUARTERMAN, Atty.
PLANT LESS COTTON
THIS YEAR
The south is now in a position
which might be called ‘‘cotton
poor;’’ that is to say, It has
large stocks of cotton on hand
costing considerably more than
present market values to pro
duce and for which then* is
seemingly no demand except at
there are
these sacrifice prices. Al
though there are sound funda
mental reasons why cotton
should not be as low as the pres
ent market quotations, yet in
order to be in on the safe side it
is good policy not to raise the
usual crop of cotton in 1919
then the world will be sure to
take the cotton it can get and
pay the southern farmer a re
munerative price for raising it.
Do not flood the market with
more than the market will ab
sorb, Any manufacturer when
lie sees that he cannot sell the
stock of goods that he has on
hand immediately curtails Ids
production . Farmers are man
ufactuers and they can apply
the same principles on a small
er scale. If in 1919 every farm
ery will c-iit his normal cotton
acreage by one-third he will get
more money for his crop and
paid at the cost price for
any 1918 cotton he might have
on hand, which is now quoted
below the cost of production.
SMALL CROPS BR IX G
MORE MONEY.
Every one knows that small
crop years yield more money. In
individual cases this might not
be so, because one farmer or one
section of the farming country
or even a whole? state might
have a ruinously short crop. In
this event they would have
suffer while more fortunate in
dividuals in other section
would benefit. But as a gener
al rule when a crop is short ev
erybody makes more money. It
is easy to see that ten bales of
cotton at $l5O a bale will yield
more net profit than twenty
bales at $75 a bale. The total
value i sthe same, but the cost
of handling, of making, of pick
ing, etc., is twice for twenty
bales as it is for ten. The same •
rule applies to all crops. The
slogan fog 1919 should be
"Make a small crop and sell it
for more than it cost to raise."
It is time for the southern farm
er to quit doing business at a
loss. In any other line of in
dustry when the manager finds
that he is losing money he quits
and trios something else. It is
£( od business and common
sense to cut down your cotton
acreage when you are losing
money on what you made the
year before.
EVER SALIVATED BV
MLOIIEIVJORRIBIfI,
Calomel is quicksilver and acta
like dynamite on
your liver.
Calomel loses you a day! You
know what colon, el is. It’s mer
jurv; quicksilver. Calomel is dan
gerous. It crashes into sour bile
like dynamite, cramping and sick
ening you. Calomel attacks the
bones and should never be put into
your system.
M hen you feel bilious, sluggish,
constipated and all knocked out and
believe you need a dose of dangerous
calomel just remember that your
druggist sells for a few cents a large
bottle of Dodson’s Liver Tone, which
is entirely vegetable and pleasant to
take and is a perfect substitute for
calomel. It is guaranteed to start
your liver without stirring you up
inside, and can not salivate.
. I>°n’t take calomel! It makes you
sick the next day; it loses you a day’s
work. Dodson s Liver Tone straight
ens you right u\; and you feel great.
Cive it to the children because it is
Perfectly harmless and doesn’t gripe.
When to Abandon Hope.
We quite agree with you that It Is
time for a lover to give up hope when
the lady “cuts him dead" in the streets
and her father threatens to kick him
on the doorstep. These are discourage
ments which ought to check the ardor
Tit-Bits mOSt S:inguine London