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"ZZ £ GEORGIA + 4 At* I lED 1&88 / >' A| THE ENTEf 'RISE PUBLISHING COMPANY R. FRIER, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN ADVANCE: OflE YEAR SI.OO SK MONTHS .50 THREE MONTHS 25 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! 0 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. 0 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. 0 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? INFORMATON BULLETIN NO. 10 $ 'in Ati Paying Money for our Coupons. Start saving them now, so when the fishing season opens you’ll have enough of thern to get your entire outfit from our Premium Department— without pajl ing a penny. You get one or more of our Coupons with every cash purchase you make here —and they’re worth, m premium goods, eight cents on every dollar you spend. Articles Like These Free! AMONG the fishing tackle on display in our Premium Department are such splendid goods as Pennell Quadruple Reels, Imperial and Kingfisher Rods, Premier and Hopatcong Silk Lines, as well as other articles of equally high quality. You can take your choice of these * goods in exchange for your Coupons —and you’ll find the number ol Cou pons needed is surprisingly small. Come and See Our Premium Department ALL the goods we offer as Premiums are on display here in our store. Come and see them. You’ll find there is not a cheap or shoddy article among them. You can pick out the Premium you want in advance and begin saving Coupons for it. It’s amazing how quickly they count up. Start saving them now. You know our prices are as low as any The Union Pharmacy Douglas, Georgia Phone 45 Every Saturday is Candy day Only 39 cents you know August Pl--only -SATURDAY W e will offer Jgjgjljf At 10 percent ANY RANGE Discount Any Stove2o. Percent WE SELL ONLY THE BEST And carry the largest stock of exclusive Hard ware between Waycross and Fitzgerald Watt-Holmes Hardware Go. J. H. JORDAN, Mgr. Phone 74 Douglas, Qa.