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' !■■■-”* ROBERT L. DL’KE, A’ Editor and Publisher. > — ——— 'A. G. JONES Superintendent F" -■■■■- i 1 ' '■ 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. * 0 7- 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. - o 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. o , 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. — o — 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. -— ™ 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 I 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. o Some fellow left a bunch of circulars in the mechanical department the oth er day and they come in fine for wrap ping paper. o — 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. n — 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. o 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. — o 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 I . creditable weekly newspapers in ' Georgia and we are delighted to hear from him again each week. Ask Your Grocer ■ r /•’ ■ - ’vL?--:hO-r ■ e; : CHEEKNEALS ' ' ■ ’ T .‘ t' < '• COFFEES Best By Every Test (?? Ta.b’. ■ ■' -- ■ -- -- ■ AN IMMENSE STOCK OF COTTON STORED IN WAREHOUSES r 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 »“ ' child of retarded growtn <! ,e “ L M lthfiil growth, and should have help to promote headnm SCOTTS IMULSION. . that promote aoundant m r.oumning - inVa!ua ble in its growth and s,rei.g,h, - " ff > s helps a help to a growing child. W' child over the weak places. nstoraßy. 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