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THE CARROLL FREE PRESS, CARROLLTON, CARROLL CPU ffTY, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1918
THE CARROLL FREE PRESS
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The weather this fall has been even a better
fuel saver than Dr. Garfield's regulations.
Woman may not have obtained the vote, but
she is still entitled to her old-time privilege, the
last word.
President Wilson is an excellent correspon
dent. He makes nothing of getting up any
morning and writing a billet doux to Bill.
You must however, call his Lusitania note a
“Billy, don’t.”
The saying that “Few die and none resign ”
does not hold good in Germany. Thousands
are dying from long enforced privations and
hardships, and as for resigning—why that is
the order of the day.
Marshal Foch celebrated his sixty-seventh
birthday on October 2nd. According to Dr.
Osier he Should have been in the scrap heap’
some time ago. But do any of us think we
could spare Marshal Foch to the scrap heap?
THE WAR WORK CAMPAIGN.
H
The United War Work Campaign will begin
November 11, and close the following Monday.
The campaign, therefore, will cover just one
week. It is called UNITED War Work Cam
paign because President Wilson, “after careful
consideration, requested the seven organiza
tions recognized by the Government for serving
the American soldiers and sailors to combine
their forthcoming financial drives in one united
campaign.” The seven organizations ,and the
sums needed by each in furthering its war work,
are as follows: Y. M. C. A., $100,000,00; Y.
W. C. A., $15,000,000; War Camp Community
Service, $15,000,000; American Library Asso
ciation, $3,500,000; National Catholic War
Council. $30,000,000; Jewish Welfare Board,
$3,500,000; Salvation Army, $3,500,000; total,
$150,000,000.
♦ * *
Dr. John R.Mott, who is at the head of the
Y. M. C. A., says that “the bringing together of
the workers of all these seven societies in a
united endeavor will enable the strong to help
the weak. . . It is in the interest of our coun
try; it is in-the interest of millions of men under* 1
the war that every one of the organizations
which is serving the troops be made as strong as
possible. No one of them alone can meet the
tremendous situation. All of them even at
their best, would be taxed to the limit. Wo
must not forget that all of us together are still
falling short of meeting the needs of our men
at home and overseas.”
Speaking of the seven welfare organizations
embraced in the United W-ar Work Campaign,
President Wilson says: “Through their agen
cies the moral and spiritual resources of the na
tion have been mobilized behind our forces and
used in the finest way, and they are contribut
ing directly and effectively to the winning of
the war.”
“A long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all-to
gether” is needed in the strenuous and solemn
time in which we are living.
Speaking of flu, reminds us of what a writer
in the Telegraph says:
“But as we view the matter personally, the
world will never be a fit place for democracy
or anything else until some genius hops in and
invents a Flu mask you can smoke a cigaretee
through.”
HAVE PATIENCE
The general tone of President Wilson’s re
plies to the German overtures have caused a
slight disappointment in certain circles both
here and abroad. The subject of reparation
seems to have been carefully left out, and its ab
sence invests the message with a mildness which
has exposed our attitude as a nation to the crit
icisms of the over-zealous.
These critics have overlooked the real nature
•f the German proposals. They were a care
fully prepared but fairly obvious snare.
The Prussian diplomat hoped for one of two
alternatives; the president would either de
mand repai’ation to the last penny, or he would
agree to an armistice. If he demanded repara
tion the German government could easily inter
pret the reply to the masses as a proof of allied
rapacity; they could quote the stupendous fig
ures tabulating the Belgian and Serbian indem
nities, and with a very little verbal jugglery con
vince their following that their only hope lay in
fighting to the last cartridge. Such an answer
would solidify the half disintegrated elements
in German politics.
If the President agreed to an armistice it
•would not only estrange France and England,
from us but it would give Germany the respite
she needed to establish new lines of defence.
Deported French and Belgian captives digging
her trenches and making her munitions could be
sweated for many weeks while plenipotentiaries
asked freak riddles across a table.
Instead, the President has aimd at discredit
ing the German high command and the oli
garchy of Potsdam. The populace are invited
to forsake the guidance which gives them mili-
tarypower while it keeps them in quasi-servi
tude. They are not threatened with indemni
ties—just yet.
But we need not concern ourselves with the
question of reparation. Though it is not raised
just now there is no doubt about its introduc
tion at the conference. Belgian plenipotenta-
ries will be there. French representatives—
with long memories—will present a few exer-j
Your
LET US VOTE RIGHT NEXT WEDNESDAY
When our present State Constitution was
adopted the north was taking great interest in
the negro, and pouring money into the poverty-
stricken south to foster his education. This
bitterly resented by the Southern people who
were struggling to climb out of the ash pits
of grim war’s ravages, and rebuild their civil
ization by re-establishiriK schools and churches.
This condition of things in the reconstruction
period of our history resulted in the article in
the State Constitution, to tax colleges and school
endowments;
The Freedman’s aid and other societies in
vested the money given to negro schools <#it-
side of Georgia and not one penny has come
into our state treasury. The same is true of
the Catholic schools. The endowments are ad
ministered outside the state and this tax law
has been gnd is a consummate farce so far as
Catholic schools and colleges are concerned.
The law missed the mark it was intended to
hit but it has hit hard hundreds of Georgia
white boys and girls.
The struggle of our schools and colleges
since the war of the sixties, battling with dif
ficulties almost insurmountable, the self-sac-
rificinK toil of the teachers and the rigid econ
omy and self-denial of the home, that John and
Mary might go to school and make preparation
for life, are familiar to oiir minds.
Next Wednesday, November 5th, we have
an opportunity to go to the polls and exercise’
our right of franchise in atonement for the mis
take made in 1877, and remove this infamous
“window tax” from the souls of our children.
Think of the endowments of Emory, Mercer,
■Hi
DR. W. B. HARDMAN DEAD
In the death of Dr. W. B. Hardman Monday,
Commerce and Northeast Georgia suffered an
irreparable loss.
The loss to us is that of a friend sincere, kind,
just, magnanimous, one who understood the
frailties of his fellowmen, and sympathized
with them and condoned their weaknesses. Our
hearts are filled with unspeakable sorrow for
we know that we shall not see his like again.
Dr. Hardman was well known all over Geor
gia, and his death will be widely mourned.
The deepest sympathy of hosts of friends
throughout the state, go out to the family.
“And David, when he had served his genera
tion fell upon sleep.”
THE CITY COURT
The voters of Carroll county will have an op
portunity next Tuesday to pass upon the abol
ishment of the City Court of Carrollton.
Elsewhere in this paper appears a statement
of facts, sworn to by the Clerk of the Court, and
indorsed as correct by the Commissioner of
Roads and Revenues. From these facts we
do not see how any citizen can vote to abolish
this court unless he wants to make taxes higher,
congest the business of the Superior Court and
fill thje county jail.
No county the size of Carroll, with as many
people as live in Carroll, with as much business
as Carroll has, can afford to take such a step
backward. If it pays to abolish the City Court,
why not save more and abolish the Superior
Court and the justice courts, too.
The City Court of Carrollton is the greatest
money-saver that Carroll county has.
VOTE FOR THE CITY COURT.
COMMENT ON THE GERMAN
NOTE BY AMERICAN PRESS
PROVIDENCE, (R. I.) JOURNAL: The
German Government offers a reply that is not
worth the paper on which it is printed.
It is a compliance in form witKoqt yielding any
thing except what has to be yielded to the hard
argument of force.
PORTLAND, (MAINE) PRESS: The reply
is nothing more than a clumsy effort to keep
open the door of negotiations and to provoke
further discussion. It will not impress the
American people as sincere.
OMAHA BEE: The Latest note from the
German government does not meet the require
ments. In no sense, generally or specifically,
is it responsive.
WATERBURY (CONN.) REPUBLICAN:
The terms of evacuation must be dictated. -Ger
many must not be allowed in her surrender to
put-any interpretation of a draw upon the end
of the war.
DULUTH NEWS TRIBUNE: But one an
swer should be made this greatest of criminals
and liars. It should refer the German Govern
ment to the military council for all further par
ley and refuse to receive any further communi
cations until the armies have surrendered,
• DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NE.WS:
Neither statute nor consjitutioh can change the
heart of a people and the German heart is still
for the Kaiser, still for war as a means to an
end, and still unrepentent for her crimes against
humanity. We say again, let Marshal Foch
decide.
TAMPA (FLA.) TRIBUNE: Thd one ad
mission that “the government formed under
Prince Maximilian is responsible to the Reich
stag,” makes Germany’s “acceptance” of Mr.
Wilson’s terms the most monumental attempt
at fooling a wise and sane people that history
records. Beware this armistice. It is ’’the
truce of the bear.”
SAVANNAH (GA.) MORNING NEWS: The
whole thing is a transparent camouflage; a
child’s play answer; an evasion; a jockeying for
time; a lie on the face of it. The note
from the.German people has not yet been re
ceived.
NEW YORK WORLD: Germany is not yet
ready to admit its defeat and accept the terms
which it begins to fear are to be imposed by its.
triumphant adversaries. When it presently
recognizes that it cannot win in the field and
that all its strategies elsewhere do not involve
its adversaries in jealousness and disputes, it
will yield, as many another nation as proud if
not as powerful, has had to yield.
NEW YORK HERALD: Today, as on the
heels of the American note of October 8, the
demand of the American people will be—no
armistice, no negotiations, no discussions, n6
peace until there is open admission of defeat
by whatever government Germany may have,
and no thought of peace until the German ar
mies have surrendered unconditionally. On
with the war! We have just begun to fight!
WASHINGTON POST: The communica
tion is nothing else than an effort to obtain re
lief for the German army by uttering a series
of falsehoods and false promises to President
Wilson. There should be only one answer
hereafter to anything that Germany may say:
“Surrender to Foch.”
BUFFALO (N. Y.) EXPRESS: If Mr.
Wilson replied at all it should be to the effect
that if the Gorman government desires an ar
mistice, it should send commissioners to the Al
lied War Council headed by Marshal Foch.
SAN DIEGO (CAL.) UNION: It won’t do.
Germany must plead guilty.
LOS ANGELES (CAL.) TIMES: Two things
have apparently been achieved, the U-boat
atrocities have been stopped and Kaiserism hatr
been put out of business. Now let us submit ar-
rmstice questions to the supreme war council.
Germany must come to terms; she is on the
way.
, CHICAGO TRIBUNE: From the German
response it is apparent that the ruling powers
at Berlin now look complete defeat in the face.
There is but one mind in America on this war,
that it shall go on to victory, ,to the utter de
struction of Prussian militarism and to the es
tablishment of peace founded on its ashes.
FLORIDA TIMES-UNION (JACKSON
VILLE) : As to what should be the next step
of the Government of the United States the
Times-Union has no advice to offer. The war
has been waged under the leadership of the
President His conduct of the war
has brought success and his declaration of its
purposes has been accepted as the declaration
of the American people,
SALT LAKE CITY (UTAH) TELEGRAM:
Germany’s latest note is not such as will justify
the hope that the hour of peace has dawned.
Oglethorpe, Wesleyan, Agnes Scott, Bessie Tift, visiou recently-
Shorter, LaGrange and other white protestant
schools and colleges being taxed to help pay the
running expenses of negro schools at Savannah
and Albany!!
Ten thousand dollars are given to Miss Ber
ry’s school at Rome to help, the very poorest
boys of Georgia to work their way to an educa
tion, and the present law puts a tax on that
money, while the Catholics have- hundreds of
thousands of dollars administered from Rome,
Italy, or some where else that so far as Geor
gia is concerned goes ‘‘Scott free” from taxa
tion.” Such a law-is unjust and unfair. School
and colleee buildings and real estate are legiti
mately taxed, and white and black, protestant
and Catholic fare alike and there being no un
just discrimination—there is no call for adverse
criticism.
MAJOR HOMER WATKINS
IS WOUNDED IN FRANCE
Edgar Watkins lias received infor
mation tlmt kis brother, Major Homer
Watkins, wtili the Eighty-second Divis
ion in France has been wonmled twice
and is now in a liospitnl convalescing.
The cables announcing the fact indi
cate that Major Watkins’ wounds are
not dangerous. Ho trained at (’11111;)
Gordon nnd lias been in the various ac
tions fought by the Eighty-second Di-
COKPORAL WILLIAM E.
TYSON DIES IN CAMP
DR. W. B. HARDMAN DIES
AT HOME IN COMMERCE
Commerce,. Ga., Oct. 28.—Dr. W. 1!.
Hardman, physician, bank president,
head of many successful local enter
prises and one of the most prominent
men in north Georgia, died this morn
ing from double pneumonia following
influenza.
Dr. Hardman once served as presi
dent of the Georgia State Medical As
sociation and a sprosident of the boar 1
of trustees of Mercer University.
He was 11 brother of Dr. I., (1. Hard
man State fuel administrator.
Corporal William E. Tyson died at
Camp Lewis, Tacoma, Washington, last
week. His body was brought to Villa
Kiel! Wednesday and carried to Pow
ell’s Chapel, in this county, where in
terment was made.
Surviving him in service lire two
brothers, Oscar M. Tyson, a sergeant
of the 157th Depot Brigade, at Camp
Gordon, nnd Walter T. Tyson, in France,
with the EmoryUnit. Also brother-in-
law, Sam L. Williams, who is in ser-
vic at Camp Logan, Texas. Mrs. Ollie
Harris, of this city, is a cousin of the
deceased.
VIRGIL GRAY IS NOT
KILLED AS REPORTED
Mr. John Gray, near Carrollton, re
ceived a telegram Friday night from
his son, Virgil, who has refurnod from
France seventh- wounded. He is in
an Atlanta hospital. His name was re J
ported in the casualty list some weeks
ago as killed in action.
GINNER’S REPORT
There were 17,403 bales of cotton
inned in Carroll county from the crop
if 1018 prior to October IS, 1018, as
ompared with (1,318 bales giunned to
| October-18, 1017.
CHARLES W. WOOD,
Special Agent.
be thfe only document in his portfolio. , j Lift the embargo off the souls of the worthy ’
Germanv mav have a place at the confer-j young people of your county and state, who! LIEUT ’ ^on'th'f'waY”
but she will do most , are hungering and thirsting for the best possible ! Lieutenant Kalph Meeks is now
! opportunity for an education. the wav -‘over there.’'
White men of Carroll county, the protestant
cises in scientific bookkeeping. Your Uncle j boys and girls of your state, Baptists, Metho-
SaTn will also find time to take up a few bygones | dists, Presbyterians and others call upon you to j
and the passenger list of the Lusitania will notj give them a square deal next Wednesday.
ence table—or under it
.of the listening.
SEARGEANT ACKLIN
GETS PROMOTION
Acting Sonrgonnt A. A. Acklin, 85th
Kipiadron, has succeeded Sergeant W.
(1. Birnbnum as military postmaster at
Siemseary. Sergeant Acklin is an
other of those mighty iiceomi luting
young Southerners—lie’s a Georgia man
—who are making the “Home Camp”
famous for pleasing manners and ready
losnitalitv.—-Spruce.
(Extract taken from Spruce, a mag
azine devoted'to the interests of war
work in the Spruce camps, Siemseary,
Washington, Sunday, October 20:h.
PRIVATE HERSCHEL C.
LEWALLEN SLIGHTLY
WOUNDED IN FRANCE
In the casualty list announced Sun
day appeared the name of Private
llerschcl (’. Lcwallen, of Bowdon, It,
F. I). 3, as slightly woundd.
SAND HILL FARM FOR SALE
282 Acre Farm for Sale known ns the
M. S. Hesterlee land. Will sell in four
tracts:
NO 1.—52 acres one dwelling and
barn; plenty running water and plenty
of wood. ’
NO 2—momc place—83 3-4 acres;
two dwellings barn, outbuildings, good
orchard, plenty running water, good
pasture, plenty oak nnd pine timber.
3— 8(1 1-4 acres; no improve
ments; plenty running water and pine
wood.
4— 50 acres unimproved;
water and plenty timber.
This land will be sold first Tuesday
in December at the court house, for
cash to the highest bidder.
For information, see
•L D. HESTERLEE.
will hesterlee;
JOHN HESTERLEE.
WALTER HESTERLEE.
DALTON HESTERLEE.
Carrollton. Route 1.
good
uw
FURL 1 ITU RE FOR SALE
One lot of furniture consisting of
three or four lied room suites, bed
springs and mattresses, rocking chgirs,
etc., and one jarlor suite. Apply to
MRS. J. P. MOORE I
]0-31-2tpd 14 King fit. ’