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ROBERT L. DL’KE,
A’ Editor and Publisher.
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'A. G. JONES Superintendent
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Entered at the postoffice in Griffin,
Georgia, as second-class mail matter.
WEEKLY, Per Year $1.50
Griffin, Ga., Dec. 27, 1918
All those who have tried it say
•when /me has the “flu” he knows it.
Naturally so.
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The Vienna News, under the guid
ing hand of its young lady managing
editor, “scatters bouquets of dainty
flowers sprinkled with rose water”
upon its readers, says the Macon Ev
ening News.
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One of the most intensely interest
ing columns in the Macon Evening
News is edited by Hon. John T. Boif
feuillet and called “The Melting Pot.”
Nr. Boifeuillet is a genial gentleman
and a brilliant writer.
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, Editor Rainey says that govern
ment control of public utilities may
sound all right, but the people would
take to it more kindly if the govern
ment would arrange one instance in
which th< public would be benefitted.
When they displayed fifteen thou
sand dollars worth of booze that was
camouflaged into .Macon as tar around
the court house in Macon Johnny
Spencer was an interested spectator
but we understand he was not “para
lyzed” by the sight.
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COLD STORAGE. ROADS AND
1 TRANSPORTATION.
The United States congress will
pass a bill at the present meeting ap
\ preprinting six hundred million dol
lars to build roads. This is in addi
t'
ton to the money already in hand for
that purpose, which amounts to two
hundred million dollars. The bill has
the approval of the president and the
.secretary of agriculture and has been
introduced by Senator Bankhead with
every certainty of its passage at an
early day. This immense sum will be
apportioned under the same plan as
at present used in the federal aid to
States and counties.
The unprecedented production of
farm products has overcome the fa
cilities cf the country for transport
ing them to market and the govern .
ment and everybody interested in food
conservation is advocating the imme
diate use of the county roads and
trucks for handling this great excess
of freight. The present railroads will
be utterly unable to meet the require
ments and the chances are that no
more will be constructed in the near
future, so that it has become the plain
duty, in fact a necessity, for the pro
ducers themselves to form some sort j
of an arrangement to meet the situ
ation.
Again, when the rural business man
realizes the enormous loss he sustains
each year on account of the weather
conditions when it comes to "hog
killing” time, he will begin to investi
gate establishing a cold storage de
pot where hogs can be killed at an>
time and meat preserved when the
proper time comes for slaughtering
the animal. Rural business men have
only to figure what it is costing them
to keep hogs now that have been fat
tened for weeks, to show that the cost
of the meat that will be produced in
the long run will have become a pro
hibitive amount, not to mention tin
great loss sustained otherwise.
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The Spartaeus group of suffragettes
held their witches dance in front of
tlie white house on Monday night and
burned copies of the
speech which didn’t rant for suffrage
quite as loudly as they thought should
have been the ease. They wouldn t
have gotten much more of a “rise” out
of the president if he had been at
home.—Macon Evening News.
MUST FEED EUROPE.
A campaign in the interest of food
conservation is being conducted by the
food administration in which the
American people are urged to save
that the deserving people of Europe
may be kept from starvation. The
Dawson News has pointed out the im
portance of this course before, but at
the risk of reiteration it urges the
need of united effort on the part of
the public in this cause. War does
not raise crops of food. It destroys
and wastes them. During the last
four years Europe has raised food un
der adverse conditions. The amount
of production has been reduced or th
matured supplies have been wasted or
destroyed, and at the same time the
demand for food .because of the arm
ies of soldiers to be fed, has increas
ed.
There are no reserved stocks in Eu
rope at this time. The people of many
countries are without food. They can
not provide food for themselves un
til next year. They must be fed from
the available supply in this country
and the rest of the food producing
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areas of world or they will starve. It
is not the intention of the American
people to let the deserving go hun
gry much less die of want.
To meet this demand there must be
a conservation which will save every
ounce possible. The division must be
fair. There wil be no food destroyed
by German submarines while being'
sent abroad. These outlaws and their '
masters have been put out of exist
ence as menaces to property. The re
duction of the army will reduce the
wastage which is inevitable in feeding
millions of men under war conditions.
But the same number of stomachs re
main to be filled whether in the army
or not.
. The people who conserve know the
end. They are no longer confronted
with the uncertainty of war. They ■
know that a few months only will j
make the people who are fed able to ,
support themselves. If there were any |
disposition to feast at home while
they starve, to go back to the condi- j
tions in which the American nation’s
health was undetermined by its ex
cessive eating, the American heart is
too responsive to the needs of the ’
suffering to do so. A few months of (
sacrifice and the people can feel they.
have ministered to humanity by sav- j
ing deserving nations from starvation ’
as well as crushing the monster of
militarism that inflicted that starva
tion on the world so far as it had the
might to do so.
THE FARM TRACTOR.
Do you know what the farm tractor
has done for us during the last year?
Thirty-five thousand farm tractors,
now used in America, have enabled
the farmer to produce magnificent
crops in the face - of an unprecedented
shortage of labor and a shortage of
horse-power.
These tractors are replacing 1,500,-
000 horses and mules, and 250,000
men who are now in the army.
They prepare the ground for our food
props and later cultivate and harvest
them. They increase the efficiency of
our farm machinery.
The man who has driven one old
Dobbin or two old Dobbins laborious
ly up and down the furrows is in a
position to realize the virtues of the
farm tractor.
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Some fellow left a bunch of circulars
in the mechanical department the oth
er day and they come in fine for wrap
ping paper.
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We extend to the boys returning
home from the army camps a glad
hand. Our heart has been with them
ami we rejoice to sec them back in
the old places.
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The Columbus Ledger exclaims:
“Horrors! Thaw cast and V-nec’:
waists arc being discussed again on
the front pages'.” Well, we’ve gotta
till up the pages with something.
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Charles .1. Bayne, John T. Boifcuil
let and Harry Stillwell Edwards arc
giving the Macon Evening News an
editorial page that is hard to beat.
Here are three of the ablest writers
in Georgia and the Nows is to be
heartily congratulated. *
LETS PLAN ’EM NOW
The United States had 5,285 war
gardens in 11)18. It should have 10,-
'■ 000,000 “Victory Gardens” in 1919,
I for there are more millions of people
' than ever to be fed and Uncle Sam
! must become the Joseph of the modern
world, says today’s bulletin from the
’ national war garden commission of
' Washington. This nation has never
fallen down on any task it set out to
I accomplish. It must now win the
world war for food and the home food
producers will have a big part in this
harvest of victory. Begin by writing
to the commission for a free garden
book which will be sent to any reader
of this paper. Enclose a two cent
1 stamp for postage.
Just because the war is over is no
'reason why the gardeners of this coun
i try should think their job is done. In
'.reality the enormous task of feeding
'the millions of hungry people releas
-1 ed from the Huns, and the other mil
| lions in the war stricken countries is
' just now beginning. The world short
! age of food is appalling. Thus, it is
i “up to us.” fellow gardeners, to put
[ more vim than ever into our garden
efforts in 1919.
Let us grow the staple crops in
larger quantities and thus release
more food for foreign shipment. Per
haps we can grow a few extra potatoes
or beans for one of our own wounded
'veterans. When the boys come home
we shall be more than glad to share
with them the best that the garden
produces. So plan now for a larger
garden, use every foot available and
help drive famine from the world.
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Sacrificing Mothers.
(Dawson News)
As the long line of soldier from ov
erseas reach the home shores there
will be rejoicing and celebrations and
happiness such as the country never
knew. But there are some homes in
which this joy will add a sorrow, some
hearts which the happiness will make
sadder. In Dawson, in Georgia, in
every State in the union are homes
from which the boy went bravely and
proudly to war, but to which he will
not return. He lies buried in a for
eign land. Comrade hands placed his
body at rest, and if possible perform.,
ed the last services of the living sol
dier for the dead comrade. The soil
in which he lies will never be dese
crated by the people of the land in
which he fell. To them it will be as
sacred as that beneath which lie their
own dead. He who died in the strug-;
gle fills a hero’s grave.
But in the home he left remains the
mother who gave him life. The days
of waiting to her will not be filled with
joyous anticipations of his home com
ing. She sees him only in spirit. In
time, as the mellowing influence of the
passing years assuages her grief she
will become reconciled to her fate
which his glorious sacrifice brought.
Mothers will offer their silent suppli
cations that the grief be not greater
than she can bear. Generations un
born will bow reverently before her
shrine because she gave that which
was worth more than life to her that
a world might be redeemed.
The Spartan mothers to whom their
sons were returned borne upon their
shields were not greater in their sub
lime saerifice-s for their country than
those mothers whose eyes will see
only the vacant place in the’ranks of
the returning soldiers her boy would
so proudly have filled had he not been
. required for that greater sacrifice on
i the field of battle.
, The Dawson News has again found
its way to our exchange table after
!an absence of several months. Edi
i tor Rainev publishes one of the most
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. creditable weekly newspapers in
' Georgia and we are delighted to hear
from him again each week.
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AN IMMENSE STOCK
OF COTTON STORED
IN WAREHOUSES
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THAT FARMERS ARE HOLDING
STAPLE FOR HIGHER PRICES
IS EVIDENT FROM FACT THAT
OVER TEN THOUSAND BALES
ARE BEING HELD AT THIS
TIME.
Griffin has received over three thou
sand more bales of cotton this sea
son than last year and the fact that
farmers are holding for higher prices
is obvious from the fact that more
than ten thousand bales are stored
away in the local warehouses.
According to the official cotton re
port for the week ending Thursday,
December 19th, furnished by J. D.
Williams, the weekly receipts were 1.-
005 bales as compared with 425 bales
last year.
The total receipts for the season
were 20,348 bales, against 17,312
bales.
The price- Friday was quoted at 29
1-4 cents.
TENKESSff” TO OfFEO HER
UISTELIHSfOBSOIMS
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 20.—Ten
see possesses a larger acreage of
waste land than any other State east
of the Mississippi, said Harvey Whit
field, who is interested in the move
ment inaugurated by the secretary of
the interior for securing farm lands
. for returned soldiers.
’ “This movement should meet with
( the hearty cooperation of all Ten
nesseeans,” said Whitfield. “This
land can easily be prepared for culti
vation, and will yield good crops of
all kinds. In Dickson, Hickman, Put
nam, Cumberland and other counties
are large bodies of land which pro
duce well and can be purchased at
reasonable prices. The State should
make an effort to secure some of them
even if it be the Herbert domain,
which afford many good homes and
I will be worth much more than to be
! held in reserve for coal fields.”
GINNED FROM 1918 CHOP
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Cotton
ginned from the 1918 crop to Decem
i her 13 was 10,250,400 bales, the de
partment of commerce announced to
day. This represents an increase of
130,000 bales over the ginning figures
for the same- period last year.
' 18,575 BALES ARE GINNED
HERE TO DECEMBER IST
The census bureau reports show
that there were 18,575 bales of cot
ton ginned in Spalding county from
the crop of 1918 prior to December 1,
1918, as compared with 15,240 bales
ginned to December 1, 1917.
WOMEN PRAISE
STELLA-VITAE
We want every afflicted woman to t ry
at least one bottle of Stella-Vitae on
our plain, open guarantee to return the
money paid for it if it does not benefit.
If yon doubt our word that, it will
relit ve the distressing a< nes, pains and
misery peculiar to the diseases of wo
men, read lhetestirnonycfthe.se women
who have tried it aiid ire glad to tell
others what it has done for i hem. The
only interest they have in the matter
is that which any true woman feels in
helping to relievethe uffenngs of other
women. You can believe them.
-Mrs. J. F. Lee, Milstead, Ga., had
felllale complaint for years. Three bot
tles of IStella-VTtae cared her, she
said, and added,“l am certainly thank
ful for this great female tonic ” Mrs.
Paralee Frazier, Lohgvicw, ex
pressed appreciation of Stet.t.a-N itat:
in these words: “I cannot say 100 much
for this wonderful medicine. I had
taken other female medicines for two
years with no good results. I atli truly
grateful for the good Stellaitae
has done me.” Mrs. Sandy TA ithers,
of Greensboro, Ala., was a terrible suf
ferer from female trouble —and only a
woman knows what that means! Her
condition got so bad her pains threw
tier into spells like fits. Her husband
feared she would lose her mind. The
Greensboro doctors pronounced her in
curable. Then somebody suggested
that she take Ftei.la-Vitak. Bhe did
bo. The first dose Itehtened her spells.
Stella-Vitae is a perfectly harm
less compound audit notonly alleviates
a woman's pain, but builds rp her
health; it stimulates her appetite, aids
digestion, quiets her nerves and clears
her complexion. It improves her per
sonal appearance.
All dealers sell Stella-Vitae, and are
authorized to return the money paid
for the first bottle if it does not benefit.
BROOKS DRUG STORE.
A CHILD MUST
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and should have help to promote headnm
SCOTTS IMULSION.
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