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officiaUorgan OF COFFEE COUNTY AND
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
Entered si second class matter at the postoffice at
Douglas,jta., under the Act of Congress of
March 8, 1879.
1 CAN’T AFFORD IT.
The jlther day a merchant said he couldn’t
afford ti advertise in his home newspaper. If
the “man’s views were not distorted, he would
see that he couldn’t afford not to advertise.
Refusing to advertise is his most expensive ex
travagance, says the Griffin News.
same merchant will spend hours tell
ing of the “unfair” competition of the mail
order houses who are his most aggressive and
dangerous competitors, yet the methods em
ployed by the mail order houses which succeed
are the very ones which the merchant refuses
to use.
The mail order house first of all is an AD
VERTISER. Advertising is the life of its
business. Every magazine that enters the
small town and rural home carries the ad of
the mail order house. Expensive catalogues
are printed showing the illustrations of the ac
tual articles. Occasionally circulars are scat
tered broadcast over the country as a special
“come on” for the bargain hunter.
Instead of doing these things in a smaller
way through the columns of his local paper,
the merchant who can t afford to advertise sits
down and “cusses” his tough luck and wonders
why he can’t get the business. He never thinks
he has a better opportunity to reach the people
in his neighborhood than the mail order i lan
has. It doesn’t cost him as much as it docs
the outsider; he can draw the people to his
store and show them the actual article he is
advertising, and, when they buy, they can take
their purchase home with them instead of F >.v
ing to wait several weeks for it. Advertising
is an investment. It should be charged to
your selling cost. Figure what percentage you
have to pay to advertise, then base a fifty-two
weeks’ campaign on the computation. You
can’t lose. You can’t afford NOT to advertise!
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GALVESTON’S DISASTER.
In their season of disaster the people of Gal
veston and other storm-stricken places of Texas
have the profound sympathy of the entire South
and the entire nation. The havoc to poverty is
great and the loss of life, though much less
than early fears expected, is distressing.
Yet, through the adversity of this hour
shines the courage of a people who fifteen years
ago emei'ged from a like calamity stronger than
ever and who reared upon their ruins a city
of which all America is proud. The spirit of
Galveston cannot be crushed. The energy and
faith of the great Commonwealth of Texas
cannot be dismayed. From the wreckage will
spring reconstruction, and from the hardship
a renewed and creative valor.—Atlanta Journal.
0
0 Douglas gets the next monthly session of
t\)s county union. Wouldn’t it be a good plan
to get up something extra for this occasion,
and make a great big day of it? The officials
will probably arrange the speaking, but let
Douglas folk provide for special entertainment,
including the great feast for the visitors who
will be here. It seems to us that the business
people of Douglas should take this matter up
and put it thru. " *** ‘tt ■>*.
0 .?
With Jim Woodard and Jack Slaton making
speeches about Georgia in California, and Tom
Loyless writing about Georgia from New York,
and Secretary Daniels at Washington c:.press
ing his views on the tOmluct of some of our
people, Georgia is placed in the limelight, but
the publicity does not appeal to us.
0
If there is nothing wrong at the state farm,
why would an investigation hurt? There is
too much smoke not to be something behind
it, and we agree with The Telegraph in the de
mand for an investigation along the proper
lines and in the proper way.
0
The mail order catalogue should be discard
ed by the homes of Douglas as quickly as pos
sible. Why should we help support some town
| in another state when our own city needs the
' help of its home people?
0
Extra session.! What does it all mean, any
way ?
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE. DCUGLAS, GA., AUGUST 21ST., 1915-
GEORGIA TO SUFFER.
The press of Georgia is righteously con
demning the act of last Monday night in no un
certain terms. Nearly every editorial that has
been published throughout the state has the
same ring and boldly expresses the same senti
ment.
The Enterprise, along with almost every
other daily and weekly paper, condemns the
act and deplores the critical situation that this
outrage has placed at the doors of our state.
We have never argued the guilt or innocence
of the Jew who now sleeps beneath the sod of
his native state. He may have been as guilty
as guilty can be. This much however seems
to be true, that fully 90 per cent, of the people
of Georgia believe he was guilty of the horrible
crime attributed to him. But even that does
not make him guilty. Again, following up
this reasoning, ten per cent, of the people of
Georgia probably believe today that he was
not guilty. This fact does not necessarily con
vince us that he was innocent. But guilty or
innocent, he was confined to the state’s keep
ing by due process of law, everything being
done in a legal way, and it was up to the peo
ple of Georgia to be satisfied with the state’s
work.
Jack Slaton has also come in for his share
of much abuse by the people of the state for
his action in the premises. We have already
expressed our views on this matter. But we
want to repeat that whether Jack Slaton made
a mistake or not, does not justify the act of
Monday night. If Frank was absolutely guil
ty of the crime alleged, then, of course, Gov
ernor Slaton made an awful mistake in com
muting the sentence, but, on the other hand, if
he was not guilty, the Governor did the best
possible thing. But the action of Governor
Slaton is neither here nor there, so far as hav
ing anything to do with mob violence. Of course
it was the direct result of it, but it offers no
excuse for a party of Georgians to organize
themselves into a mob and proceed between
suns to the sanctity of the government of Geor
gia and handcuff the officials of this Georgia
institution and proceed to take by force an in
mate of this Georgia institution, who was put
there by due process of law, and held by the
authority of the state which put him there.
No party of men, no mob organization, has any
right to override the decrees of the state in
which they live, and when they do it, they not
only violate the laws of the commonwealth, but
they have retrograded the moral status of
their state to a pace that cannot be regained
in a long period of years.
There is not but one phase of the matter to
be considered by anyone. It makes no differ
ence whether the prisoner was a Jew or a Gen
tile, whether he was guilty or not guilty,
whether Jack Slaton was right or wrong, the
cold fact that the law 7 of Georgia had directed
the disposition of this case and future career
of this criminal, stares us in the face, and when
any set of men conspire and put into execution
a plan which results in the doings enacted at
the state farm on last Monday night, these
men not only violated the laws of their state,
but bring shame on the heads of all Georgians
and their act will be a liability against us for
years to come, one that it will take years to
erase the stain on the fair name of Georgia.
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THE FARMER AS A BORROWER.
The indications are that there will be a cot
ton crop of from 12 to 13 million bales. It
ought to sell on the market for 10c. If it sells
for less than that, the South will suffer. If it
sells for more than that, probably the specu
lator will benefit.
We think there will be no trouble about
“money to move the cotton crop.” But .that
does not mean that a large part of the crop
will not be forced on the markfct by merchants,
factors and bankers who have advanced the
money to have the crop made.
It ought not to be so. If, the new Federal
reserve system were whi* it was said to be by
its advocates, it would not be so. It ought to
be possible for the'cotton raiser, with his cot
ton picked, to get advances upon the cotton suf
ficient to enable him to hold it as long as in his
judgment the course of prices justified him in
doing it. '**-*"••*» -
But the southern farmer is not going to be
independent until he can get, at the beginning
of the year, the advances he needs for the opera
tions of the year, upon reasonable terms; mon
ey to make, not to market, the crops on reason
able terms, ,
Reasonable terms mean the terms the bank
er is justified in naming for the risk, because
there is a risk. The fanner himself can re
duce that risk by his business habits, by econ
omy at home, by reasonable attention to busi
ness in the bank and with the merchants, by
establishing a character not for probity and hon
esty, but for intelligence and for economic man
agement.—Home and Farm.
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It now seems likely that Governor Harris
will cenvene the legislature some time in Sep
tember. But what’s the use? Wasn’t they
recently convened for a fifty days’ session?
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Douglas, Georgia Phone 45
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Any Stove2o. Percent
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