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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 Comforting relief from pain makes Sloan's the World’s Liniment Thia famous reliever of rheumatic 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