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VOLUME SIX Why Not The Ballot To Women? A prominent Georgia woman wrote not long since asking, “What objection to giving the ballot to women?” The reply was: “The ballot means politics. As our pulpit should be uncontaminated by poli ties, so our women should be. ‘Votes for women’ will affect not to much our political as our social life; it will revolutionize the home life. Our homes are the basis of our State and National prosperity. Ballots for women will strike at the unity of the home. Unity of inter est is found between man and wife. There is antagonism in every other relation of life. It is social revolu tion when the man and wife are no longer one, but two. When two, antagonism destroys that unity in tended when (iod made the twain as one. They tire one, yet two; they are one in mind, while two in body. When two in mind ami two in body, the Scriptural idea of mar riage is lost. The family should be a well organized social nr it, consti tuted on the principle of autocracy. The woman ballot destroys this, and the relation becomes a co-equal copartnership. In other words, the marriage relation as established by the Bilde degenerates into a mere cTvil contract, with its changing fortunes. “Nowhere in the world are women treated with such honor as in the South. It is as if they were superior beings: reverence for them is a distinguishing characteristic of Southern men. Hence they are placed on a pedestal, abovS" such ignoble contaminations as are now attached to practical politics. South ern ideals and Southern civilization involve the lofty eminence upon which we place our wot? ten. We would save them from the mire of polities. The ballot means polities. Practical politics will commonize onr women. Now they are sacred in our eyes. The aroma of the violet is not more pervading than her intluei.ee. Will it be so when women enter into politics? The Scriptural view of marriage is dis carded, and marriage merely a civil contract when the ballot is confer red. Is history to repeat itself? The Telegraph, editorially, not long since, showed that women bought the ballot in Rome, and with what result? They sought emancipation from the laws of God and nature, and the result was not only a political but social revolu tion. The home life was affected. The Roman woman demanded not a home constituted on the principle of autocracy, or the social unit, but on the principle of co-equal part nership —the same as American suffragettes now demand. Man and wife were no longer one, but ®f)e Codpron Journal THE BEST WAY TO SPEND MONEY If you want to spend your moyey so you will bring happiness to your familu/no not forget that you can find anything in nfce Furniture at JACKSON FURNITURE COMPANY two. Marriage became merely a civil contract, is con*inuance de pending on mutual consent. The bond was dissolved at will. Mar riage became a joke. Even Cicero repudiated bis wife. Maecenas, the friend of Horace, continually changed bis wife. Even Cato sold bis wife to bis friend Hortensius. The ballot made women brazen. They lost ilieir femininity. They lost their modesty and refinement. Can the dress of today with the diaphanous skirt !>e a forerunner of the ballot for women? It was so in pagan Rome. |g The marriage became so uncertain, so “intolerably disagree able” that men shunned it. Wives quit husbands and husbands quit wives on tiny flimsy pretext. Some prominent women, leading suffra gettes, took unto themselves twen ty-five husbands in the course of of five years. So that men refused to marry. Augustus Caesar offered handsome bribes to induce men to marry. But laws could not save the Empire She who had rocked the cradle and gave Rome strong men became a politician. Men were wanted and Rome fell for lack of men. The women had ceased to furnish, edu cate tnd train men for the defense of the empire. When the woman undertook to do mans work and neglected her sphere, affairs were thrown into confusion. The Southern man shudders when he contemplates how these strong minded women of the north and west —the Jane Addarns crowd — are leading our Southern women to organize suffrage associations, and plunge into the arena of politics. He is aware how it will commonize them’and degenerate them, reduce marriage, in course of time to a mere civil contract between two co-equal partners and strip it of the sacredness under its Scriptual bonds of wedlock. As has been said “The family as organized by Christ, is a social unit, a harmonious whole, with one head. The man and wife are one, not two”. The Chicago suffragettes tell us if the Bible conflicts with the suffrage movement, then the Bible must go. Perhaps they see in the perspective the conditions that “Woman’s rights brought to Rome and they desire that history repeat itself. If Northern and Western women want to become as men, let us hops our Southern women will refuse to fol low their example. The suffragists of today are weary of the conven tionalities of society and they seek that militancy which overthrows the Bible philosophy of Woman’s sphere These pagan organizations, defying marriage as ordained by Christ are as nrfich an attack on the home as a social unit, as the movement, originating in Nebraska and fo s tered in Oregon, to supplant the representative system with the old effete direct system of govern- COCHRAN, BLECKLEY COUNTY GEORGIA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1913 i irst Bale Of New Cotton About 7:110 A. M. Henry .J. Dix on rolled through town with a bale of seed cotton on Lis wagon on the way to the Cochran Oil Mill and Gninety. Just about fifteen min utes before this hale was ginned an I haled ready for market, Mr. James M. Buchanan came in fiom Empire, drove up to the Planter’s Warehouse and delive.ed to them a bale that had been ginned at Em pire Wednesday. This hale was raised on a farm located both in Dodge and Bleckley, the county line running through the plantation l! wa.t sold to the Planters Ware house Company for 15c a pound. The other hale belonging to Henry .1. Dixon was raised on W. R Mc- Nair’s place !) miles from Cochran and was delivered to the Farmers Union Warehouse fifteen minutes after the Buchanan hale was deliv ered to the Planters Warehouse. The hale weighed 50(5 lbs and was sold to the Union Warehouse for fifteen cents per pound. mentis an attud on the Constitut ion of our country. But as the wisdom and virtue of womanhood will come to the rescue of religion and society, so the patri otic, thinking people of this country wilt pome to tire rescue of the Con stitution and maintain and protect that system of government establish ed to the fathers of the republic.— Janres Calloway in Macon Telegraph Every Home Needs Walter's Chill and Fever Tonic N IT Walter’s Kidney and Liver Pills N IT Walter's Colic , C holera^xnd \ Diary Hea Remedy NIT Adam’s Nirve&none Liniment N IT THE WORLD’S BEST Bak cums your Cash if you do not get results . Ail made in our store and sold in Cochran by Walker’s Pharmacy ONLY Quick delivery Phone No. 9 Prof. Monts Moves To Cochran Prof. R. M. Monts the new Sup erintendent of the Cochran High School has arrivedkin tire City with his family and they are occupying the residence formely occupied by .T. H. Mullis, Jr., on the corner of Second and Beach street. Prof. Monts is delighted with our new school building, which by the way is one of the best in Georgia. He is.enthusiastic over the future out look for a splendid school, and very hopeful for a substantial increased attendance. We extend to Prof. Monts and his family a most cord ial welcome, and hope that t hey will not only find a pleasant and profit able home among us, hut a happy one also. j Brown’s Palace Changes Hands Mr. M. Martin of IBuvkinsville has purchased Brown’s Palace for mely owned By D. A. Brown and will soon start up the moving i>ie ture show. Mr. Martin will run this business under the name of the Cochran Fruit and Candy Co. and will keep at all times a nice stock of fresh fruit and candy, toilet articles, cigars and all kinds of cold drinks. We wish to call attention to sev eral new adds in this week’s issue. Baseball Wednesday, Cochran vs Plains The Hefty base hall team of Plains, Gci.., arrived in the City at noon Wednesday, to begin a series of three games with the home team. The (irst game started at four o’clock Wednesday afternoon with the following line up: Battery for Plains, Carpenter and Howell. For Cochran, Lester, Hendricks and Wynne. * The Cochran team was not up to the usual standard on account of several players being out of place. Plains scored one in the first in ning on three errors, one in the fifth on two errors and a sit gU, one in the sixth on an error and a sin gle. In the eighth inning Timmer im walked being hit by Lester, jHowell followed with a short lly to center field, Merrett threw the ball to Snow hut the ball dropped to the ground and was lost in the grass. Howell ran around the bases forc ing in Timmeron; Moran fanned; Rowland grounded out second to first. Ross Hied to Snow who let the hall fall close to him and was safe at second on Wynne’s wild throw. Jennings pasted out a long one for two bags scoring Ross; Wel lons was safe at first on Lester’s error and Jennings scored; Carpen ter was awarded his base on balls. Brannon singled. Timmeron grounded out third to first. In this inning two men walked, two singled, one man doubled, three men errored, one threw wild, one stole second and a lost hall scored two, five men reaching home plate. Played Ring-a-Round-a-Rosy for Eight Runs. Cochran earned a run in the sec ond inning. The other three runs were scored in the seventh inning as follows; Wynne hunted a slow one to pitcher hut was safe at first on Timmeron’s error; Lester singl ed over second base advancing Wynne, Merrett flew out to first. Taylor flew to right field the ball falling near the foul line which looked like a single hut the tall grass butted in the game again and Taylor ran around pushing Wynne and Lester across the plate. When NUMBER 1 the lost ball was found by the Um pire and most of the players and some of the spectators, a wraTlgle started over the decision, the visi tors kicking vigorously. Umpire Coley was complained at in the third inning by the visitors and then - request to put in Mr. Manheim from Hawkinsville, was granted. tHTHIHKi ■:! ET 1 Raised a Yell on the Decision, 'j The writer lias credited Taylor/ and Howell with home runs, but inasmuch as they gained only on account of the ball being lost, he does not think that either player is entitled to the box of cigars which was offered by Walker’s Pharmacy. Manager Adams stated that he would abide by the decision of the Umpire or the scorer and would gladly give the cigars if in the opin ion of either the player are entitled to them. It is to be hoped the two other games will he more interesting. With a srrengthened team, Coch ran should win the other two games. COCHRAN AB RHE APO Merrett, cf 5 0 0 1 0 1 Taylor, A. rf._ 5 1 10 0 0 Thompson, If.- 4 0 0 0 0 0 Snow, 2b 4 0 0 1 3 1 Jackson, 3b... 4 1 104 2 Lyles, lb 4 0 0 3 2 8 Taylor, J. ss_. 4 0 1 0 0 1 Hendricks, c__ 2 0 0 1 0 10 Lester, p 4 1 1 015 1 Wynne, c 2 1 0 2 0 3 Total 38 4 4 8 24 27 PLAINS AB R H Ii A PO Brannon, ss 5 1 10 4 1 Timmeron, lb 5 1 0 2 113 Howell, c 5 2 1 0 0 8 Morlan, If 5 0 0 0 0 1 Rowland, rf 5 0 2 0 0 0 Ross, cf 5 1 10 0 2 Jennings, 3b 4 2 1 0 3 1 Wei lons, 2b 4 1 0 0 2 1 Carpenter, p 4 0 1 0 10 0 Total 42 8~ 7 2 21 27 Score by innings: R H E COCHRAN 010 000 300 4 4 8 PLAINS 100 011 050 8 7 2 Summary: Two base hits; Jen nings, Home runs. Taylor A., How ell. Sacrifice fly Jackson, Sacrifice hit, Timmeron. Stolen Bases, Tim meron, Rowland, Snow, Jackson two, Taylor. Hit by pitcher Jack son, Snow, Timmeron. Struck out by. Lester 12, By Carpenter 8. Um pires Coley 3 innings, Manheim 6 inning. Time 1 hr. 50 m. Bases on balls off Lester 3, off Carpenter 3.