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PUIiLISHED EVEKV THURSDAY. OFFICIAL OROAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
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Mount Vernon, Ga.. Thursday Morning, Apr. 6, 1916.
Villa, the boll weevil and the |
cattle tick—eradicate them.
If the story is true about Villa
losing one of his legs it. might be;
continued next week by stating
who pulled it.
After -several weeks of dry
weather, the rain is coming again. ;
It is scarcely worth while to say 1
that the weeds and grass will
come along immediately.
The sale of millions of sweet
potato slips from South Georgia I
hot beds shows that our people
are learning something of the
vastness of our own resources.
Dr. Hardman is a good man and
worthy of the office he seeks, but
the people have settled down to
the conclusion that your Uncle
Nat deserves another and he will
get it.
Farmer Brown may not be able
to buy guano with the desired
proportion of potash in it, but he
is going to keep gasolene in his
Ford if Betsy has to go without
that new three-cornered hat.
That old South Georgia gag
about striking a negro lunatic on
the head with a stick of wood
and causing the # earwig that
made him insane to crawl out of
his ear was being worked oyer
again by a few papers last week.
Encourage your boy and your
girl to enter the Montgomery
county school contest here on
the 28th inst. By your interest
in the matter, you may instill into
them determination that will
crown their after lives with suc
cess. Montgomery county is in
need of more enthusiasm and
intelligent etfort.
Hon. W. G. Brantley, who
represented the Eleventh District
sixteen years in Congress, speak
ing before the Georgia Society in
Washington said: ‘ You cannot
have any stronger laws than you
have already. It is not your laws
or your legislature, it is not your
courts, but the fault is in the ad
ministration of your laws.”
As every village, in this great
country pays its tribute to Kala
mazoo for celery, so could South
Georgia draw from every section
a harvest of coin, for its cane
syrup, put up in attractive form.
A lack of system in production
and marketing continues to hold
down this great industry, of which
our soil and climate would give
us a monopoly.
The man who succeds in con
vincing our people that livestock
raising is the one great lever that
must lift tin m out of the old ruts
and onto the solid ground of
prosperity will prove a great
benefactor to his race. That soil
fertility, the one thing to be de
sired, can be reached by this
method more surely and cheaply
than by any other plan must bo'
made to stand out clearly. The
Montgomery County Live Stock
Breeders Association has a grand
opportunity before it along this
line.
The ending of the European
war will not immediately reduce
the cost of potash, because the
• demand by fertilizer manufactur
ers will continue for a long time
after a cessation of hostilities.
The farmer who plans now to
make his own fertilizer by com
posting everything available on
his farm w ill be the first one to
feel the pulsations of prosperity
to which the world is looking
forward. If Montgomery County
farmers would plan to fertilize
one crop without spending a dol
lar for commercial manure our
people would be in thousands of
dollars.
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Don’t know how long it will
take Uncle Sam to find Villa and
effect his capture, but at least,
the expedition will serve to show
the people of this country the
need of preparedness.—Forsyth
Advertiser.
The cotton speculators are
again playing their old but well
well worked trick to fool the
farmers into planting a big crop
by raising the price. The price
was 13 cents in Savannah this
week. The scheme has always
worked beautifully. It remains
to be seen whether or not it will
fool anybody this year. — Lyons
Progress.
It is inconceivable that war
conditions should be used as the
means of playing politics, but
that, is exactly what the political
enemies of President Wilson are
doing, in Congress or out.—
Berry Home Journal.
This summer when crops are
laid by take a school survey of
your district and see if there is
anything you can suggest or do
that will improve your communi
ty to make it a more attractive
place for people to live in.—Wal
ker County Messenger.
We are anxious to see some of
the idle land in Bryan county un
der cultivation. We have several
thousand acres which if drained
would be fine for growing most
anything on and would accomo
date hundreds of families more
than we now have. Most of this
could he done for almost nothing,
too. —Pembroke Enterprise.
Those dipping vats in Toombs
county will do much to stimulate
stockraising in this section. Let’s
have more of them by all means.
Vidalia Advance.
Georgia farmers at one time
paid $2.50 a pair for English spar
rows, we would like to know
what price they would pay now
for a few pairs of “garden” pig
eons. Butler Herald.
Thomas Edison says four hours’
sleep is enough for any body. But,
then you know Tom never worked
in a newspaper office that we
knows of. —Hartwell Sun.
I
Americus is agitating munici
pal ownership of her electric
lighting plant. them go it.
They are near enough neighbors
to be easily watched. They might
show us something.—Cordele
Dispatch.
Whenever one of the neigh
bors has a new piano moved in
the other neighbors sit on the
front porches and observe: “We
would do it. too. if we were wil
ling to owe everybody in town!”
Macon News.
A guy has invented an elastic
band arrangement, to hold wo
men's bats in places without us
ing pins. If the women will wear
that invention there will not be
so many blind men. Greensboro
Herald Journal.
Headline says if Villa and Reyes
join forces things will become
serious. President Wilson didn’t
want to tackle this job. and he
had a longer head than a whole
passle of us. The Mexican war
will be a bigger war than many
people predicted. - Nashville Her
ald.
In the primary election held in
Bleckley county last week, the
two candidates for ordinary tied,
each receiving 462 votes. The
race will not be run over, how
ever, as the present incumbent
withdraws from the race in favor
of his opponent who is declared
the nominee. - Rochelle New Era.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, APRIL 6 1910
WE’RE SHY ON TROOPS
Government Fac2s Big Problem
in Entering Mexico.
Can Muster Only About 32.0C0 Men
in Fighting Shape, but May
Call for Larger Force.
Washington, D. C. —The first ques
i tlon which comes up In sending an ex-
I pedltion after Villa is that of the
troops available. The only troops irn j
' mediately available are those of the
regular army. Os the 15 regiments
of cavalry, about three and a third
are out of the country and therefore
not available. Seven are already on i
the border, leaving four and two- J
thirds which can be sent.
Os the field artillery, one regiment
of light and one and a half regiments
of mountain are on foreign service and
therefore not available One regiment
of light, one of horse, and half a regi
ment of mountain are on the border.
In the rest of the country there is only
one regiment and that is a siege one,
the guns of which are too heavy to
be used with such an expedition as the
one after Villa.
Nineteen Infantry Regiments.
Os the 30 regiments of infantry
ten and two-thirds are on foreign serv
ice, 15 are already on the border, leav
ing only four and a third available as
a re enforcement. The first time the
troops were mobilized on the Mexican
border companies of coast artillery
were organized into battalions and
regiments and used for infantry. At
the present time, however, due to our
strained diplomatic relations with oth
er powers, the coast artillery cannot
be spared from the coast defenses.
This means we have available to
guard our Mexican border and chase
Villa eleven and two-thirds regiments
of cavalry, nineteen and a third regi
ments of Infantry, 48 field guns, and
16 mountain guns. As the regiments
are at peace strength, this gives a
force of about 32,000 to guard 1,200
miles of frontier through a country
easily crossed by troops In any di
rection and to catch Villa in a terri
tory with which he is thoroughly fa
miliar.
Mexicans Will Aid Villa.
A great advantage possessed by
Villa is that every Mexican will aid
him in every possible way. He nev
er will lack information as to where
our forces are and as to what they are
doing. On the other hand, when ques
tioned by our men they will always lie
and give as much misinformation as
possible.
Villa can cause our troops serious
embarrassment by retreating practi
cally straight south. It is true that ,
there are Carranzista forces occupy
ing most of the principal points north
of and including Mexico City.
South of Mexico City is the territory
held by Zapata, who has never come
in since the original Madero revolu
tion. While little has been heard
about him in this country, he general
ly has more followers than had Villa
in his palmiest days He excites even
more terror among the natives than
does Villa. He has threatened Mexi
co City itself on more than one occa
sion. For these reasons there prob
ably would be little difficulty in Villa
getting through the Carranza forces
to Zapata, should he wish to do so.
Must Guard Communications.
As our troops advance into Mexico
their line of communications, becom
ing longer and longer, will need more
and more troops to guard it. Also,
the natives will come more and more
to believe that a genuine invasion
is being made. At the present time
so much hatred of the American ex
ists Just south of the line and so much
hatred of the Mexican just north of it
that a clash between Carranzistas and
the American troops is possible at
any time.
CAVALRY BEING MADE READY
All the Troops Available in the Coun
try Are Being Mobilized for Serv
ice in Mexico.
Every available troop of cavalry in
the United States army Is mobilizing
on the border for the expedition into
Mexico after Francisco Villa. The j
Seventh, Eighth, Tenth and Thlr- '
teenth regiments of cavalry are now i
directly on the border.
Orders issued by the war depart- i
meat at the solicitation of General
Funstou at San Antonio, will 'bring
the Eleventh from Fort Oglethorpe, j
Ga.; the First from Monterey, Cal.;
the Twelfth from Fort D. A. Russell, j
Wyoming, and from Fort Robinson, j
Kan.; and the Fifth from present |
posts in Fort Sheridan, III.; from Fort
Meyer, Va , and Fort Sill, Okla.
The Ninth cavalry and the Fifteenth
cavalry, relieved from border duty
two months ago after a tour here
since 1913, will be ordered back again
I if General Funstou s recommend*-
tions are carried out completely.
All motor trucks in El Paso have
i been listed subject to military service
; moving supplies.
The Sixteenth, Sixth and Twentieth
1 infantry regiments are included in the
tentative lists of infantry troops to
j go for garrison work, and to hold open
the railroads and telegraph lines be
tween the cavalry advance and the
supply base on the border. The Sixth
field horse artillery and two batteries
of the Fourth artillery, now at Fort
Bliss, will a’so go in Sam Houston, a
signal corps battalion from Fort Bliss
and a battalion of engineers from Fort
Bliss have gone from their respective
stations to mobilization points at Co
luuibus and El Paso.
Archie’s Neck.
Little Willie—in small boy sto
ries the central figure is nearly
always named Little Willie—came
running into the house, stutter
ing in his excitement, says the
Washington Post.
"Mommer,” he panted, ‘‘do
you know Archie Sloan’s neck?”
“Do I know what?” asked his
mother.
“I know Archie Sloan,” an
swered the puzzled parent: “so I
suppose I must know his neck.”
Why do you ask?”
“Well,” said Willie, “he just
1 now fell into the water up to it.”
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