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THE DOUGLftS ENTERPRISE
DOUGLAS, GEORGIA
ESTABLISHED 1868
Published Every Saturday By
THE ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING COMPANY
W. R. ERIER, Editor
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Publishes The Legil Advertising Of The City Of Douglas,
Coffev County, And County Commissioners.
Entered as sec >t-.d class matter at the postoffice at
Douglas, Ga., under the Act of Congress of
Inarch 8, 1879.
FREE SCHOOL BOOKS AND CRIMF-
In his annual address before the police
chiefs of Georgia in Savannah Wednesday,
Leonard M. Summer of Cordele, as president
of that body, tells these officers of the law that
compulsory education and free school books are
our bulwark against crime and a remedy for
the storming of jails and the lynchings of de
praved human creatures. He,further declares
that education of the right kind gives men
strength to control their passions and to over
come their primeval animal desire for revenge.
It helps them to see, he further argues with a
great deal of common sense, that the destruc
tion of a criminal is no more complete when he
is held dangling from the limb of the stately
oak or lowly pine than when regularly executed
by due and solemn process of law. Lynching
and mob rule sow the seeds of outlawry and
evil begets evil, he says, but education lifts the
vc-H and helps us to see the better effect of a
supreme devotion to the majesty of the law.
As to detail President Summer is not so much
concerned. It is the principle—education as a
sure remedy against the great crime of lynch
ing. The state will have to enforce any com
pulsory measure, but the state ought not to
have to do with the free school books. That’s
a matter which ought to be set on the shoulders
of the county or the school community. But
both are coming and future generations are to
rvap the benefits of a more widely distributed
educational training among the children of to
day. The advantages to be had from free
school books and enforced school attendance
belong to the future, but it is none the less our
duty to give our young the advantages which
they cannot have without our assistance.
In illiteracy we stand almost at the foot of
the list. To be more accurate, we are third
from the bottom of the list of states. Is Sum
mer right when he estimates that a lack of
education permits the rising up of primeval
animal revenge in the lyncher? And does this
account for the fact that we do more lynching
than our sister states?
One reason of lynching such as infests our
state is enough to destroy the work of a gen
eration directed to the establishment of the
law. People of culture, refinement and educa
tion have nothing to do with lynchings. Men
who take the law in their hands usually have
no regard for the good order and peace of the
community and they are of a class that educa
tion of the present will never reach. Their day
of refinement of character by education is gone.
.So we must build for a love of order and peace
through the b vs of today. They must be edu
cated . Compi.lsoryeducation and free school
books are both employed by other states with
telling influence and they ought not to be de
layed in Georgia.
The lyncher of today should be dealt with
summarily for the reason that he sows for the
state to reap murderers and outlaws. The
lynchers of tomorrow will not materialize if the
boys are educated to that state where they can
themselves know the full meaning of the maj
esty of the law. —Cordele Dispatch. <
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The Enterprise expects to revise their sub
scription list in a few days and a great number
will be cut off unless they pay up right away.
With the present high cost of newspaper which
has over doubled in the past few months, we
w*ll be unable to furnish the paper to our sub
scribers unless they are more prompt with
their obligations. The political campaign is on
and you won’t want to miss a copy, so in order
to receive it regularly, you had better send us
your check, and that this month.
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wd- are advised that the Central route of
the Dixie Highway gets two-thirds of the
travel, just as we thought it would. We have
the best road and shorten mileage, the two big
features of a highway. <
Joe Pottle spoke over at Alapaha, Berrien
county, last Tuesday, to somethig nlike 1,000
people, and made a very fine political speech.
He is an orator and always entertains his au-
AN OPPORTUNITY FOR KINSFOLK.
While we believe every farmer should try
to think of his neighbor as a brother, whether
he is any blood kin or not, and co-operate with
him accordingly, yet the fact remains that it
is easier to work out such co-operation where
the way has been paved for it, as it were, by
the ties and intimacies of family relationship.
Consequently it is especially among broth
ers and cousins, and between fathers and sons,
that we are going to plead for that co-operation
in farm work —that co-operation which condi
tions render necessary if the small farmer is
to meet the competition of the wealthier far
mer with better equipment. Economic neces
sity forced farmers in Ireiand and Denmark
to co-operate, and an awakening to the facts
we have mentioned must sooner or later force
our small farmers into more brotherly and
more profitable relations.
Already, in fact, we think we see signs of
this coming change in agricultural meth'ods.
Acting at the request of some cousins, I have
just sold to two brothers a 200-acre farm ad
joining my old home farm, and these brothers
will be able to get the advantages of co-opera
tive farming even if they do not make it a part
nership. Similarly, I find two of my own cous
ins working together in farming this year. And
I visited a community not long ago in which a
group of eight or ten brothers and cousins vir
tually had a community of their own, working
together almost like one big family.
In city business it is common enough t» find
father and son, or brother and brother, in part
nership. In spite of the greater difficulties,
such virtual partnerships should be more com
mon in the country. They would not only mean
more profits for both parties, but the stimulus,
inspiration and comradship of working togeth
er would enrich many a life.—Clai'ence Poe, in
The Progressive Farmer.
Over in the Second district, there is a hot
congressional fight betweeen Judge Cox and
Congressman Frank Park. There appears to
be some pep in the campaign of that district,
so unlike conditions over here in the old Elev
enth. But we believe it is better to have it
quiet, less feeling, so that when the race is over
we will not have so far to go to get back to
gether again.
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Judge W. C. Lankford and Judge W. E.
Thomas, two of the congressional candidates
in this district, attended the hig barbecue at
Alapaha, in Berrien county, on the Fourth, and
made speeches to the 1,000 people present.
Both of these gentlemen were at their best and
the crowd was very attentive throughout the
addresses of both.
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Judge Lankford, our congressional candi
date, continues his campaign with much ear
nestness. He is out nearly all the time ming
ling with and speaking to the voters. He feels
much encouraged over the prospects, and if a
thorough campaign counts for anything, the
Judge will figure with ’em on election day.
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Macon was host to thousands of people on
the glorious Fourth, and the report is that she
entertained them lavishly and to their entire
satisfaction. The legislature was also present
in a body and of course it was up to Macon to
do her best on an occasion like this.
J. J. Brown is talking about running for
Commissioner of Agriculture against the pres
ent encumbent. Hon. J. D. Price. Now Brown
may run like wild fire in some spots, but we
doubt his making much of a show in Coffee
county. And should he?
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One of the hottest fights in the legislature
will be the Savannah affair, and following close
on the heels of this will be the several new
county fights, all of which will make this ses
sion a memorable one.
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The campaign for governor progresses slow
ly but surely. The lineup is gradually being
made but it will be along in August before the
real heat of the campaign shows up.
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Reports from everywhere around are that
Coffee county has some of the best crops she
has had in her history. The corn and cotton
crops are both mighty fine.
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Jet Bowden has one of the best press agents
in the country. Jet believes in printers’ ink.
and some of the other candidates might follow
his custom in this respect.
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Joe Pottle is making more speeches than all
of the other three candidates combined. This
counts, too. and will make a tremendous show
ing later on.
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In our opinion. Dr. L. G. Hardman will be
one of the two leading candidates for governor
in the race now on.
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What has become of the paved streets
proposition ?
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE. DOUGLAS, GEORGIA. JULY 8, 1916.
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J. H. JORDAN, Manager Phone 74
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