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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (July 19, 1917)
iMmttgmttrrg iMmutar. VOL. XXXII. FIVE BILLION TO BE LOANED ALLIES Loan of $3,000,000,000 which U. S. Advanced to Allies About Exhausted. Special Service to Monitor. Washington.—Unless the unforeseei develops, congress probably will be asked to authorize another gigantic loan to the allies. The present au thorization of three billion dollars will be exhausted within from three to four months, at the rate at which the gov ernment Is lending money to entente governments. Indications are that the amount of the second authorization will be no less than the first, and may go as high as five billion dollars. There is every reason to believe that the administration’s policy of financing the allied governments for purchases they make in this country will be continued during the period of the war, and that the vast sums to be loaned them in the future will be loaned as in the past at the same rate of interest the American govern ment will have to pay for the money and on the security of entente gov ernment bonds to be deposited in the treasury. Total credits to the allies probably will approximate one billion five hun dred million dollars by July 25, three months after the signing of the war finance bill under which authority for the loan was given by congress. During the first three months the rate of lending has been approximate ly five hundred million dollars a month. Extended, it would mean an annual loan of six billion dollars abroad, all the funds, of course, being spent in this country for foodstuffs, munitions and other supplies. Esti mated costs to the American govern ment for its military and naval estab lishments during the first year of war were placed at approximately four bil lion dollars, soon after war was de clared. Tarry town. Special correspondence. Mr. W. B. Cadle and sons, Far ris and Reese, left Tuesday for Washington, Baltimore and New York. Miss Gertrude Calhoun of So perton was a week-end visitor to the Misses Ferrell. Messrs. M. E. Burns, D. F. Warnock and Hilliry S. Calhoun returned from a fifteen day’s trip to White Springs, Fla., last week. Mr. Lonnie Fields and Miss Lillie Calhoun married Sunday afternoon. They are at home at Mr. J. J. Calhoun’s near here. We wish them a long and happy life. Protracted services began at the Baptist church Saturday last. The pastor is being ably assisted by Rev. Thrasher of College Park and Rev. L. B. Claxton of Bar tow. We hope much good w. 1 result. I Misses Francis and Lillian Beatty visited Miss Bennie Wil liamson at Soperton Monday. Mr. Dock Davis of Orland was the dinner guest of Mr. W. B. Cadle Sunday. Mr. D. E. Hollimon was a busi ness visitor to Dublin Monday. A new ginnery is being erected in town by Mr. F. C. Calhoun. Miss Sarah J. Wheeler return ed to her home at Eight Monday. She had been visitingat the home of Mrs. A. L. Wheeler. Mrs. M. E. Burns, who has been real sick, is improving. Mr. Colan Thigpen came down from Chattanooga Sunday for a few days visit. Church Notice. On account of the revival meeting in progress at the Pre byterian church in Vidalia this week, Rev. D. A. McNeill will not preach at the Presbyterian church in Mt. Vernon Friday night as previously announced. He will fill his appointment here at 11:00 o’clock on Sunday, and at Hack Branch at 4:00 p. m. but will not preach at night, return ing for the evening service at Vidalia. Communion will be conducted here and at Hack Branch as announced. i Negro Has Legs Pulled Off Body. Savannah, Ga., July 16.—Jesse Greene, a negro, employed at the Rouke Iron Works, was seriously and perhaps fatally injured this morning about 11 o’clock, when both his legs were pulled from his body, when they were caught in a line shaft while he was at work. His legs were pulled from his body just below his knees and he was immediately rushed to the Charity Hospital, where he will undergo an operation this after noon were to the effect the negro was resting easily. His condition is considered very serious. The authorities at the hospital were unable to state whether or not the injuries would prove fatal. Wm. Thaw Drops Bth German Flyer. Paris, July 16. —Lieutenant Wm. Thaw, of Pittsburg, a mem ber of the French air corps, has shot down his eighth German aeroplane, killing both the pilot and observer. Word to this ef fect was received from the front today. Andrew C. Campbell, of Chicago, is cited in orders for his feat of bringing his airplane down safely after a part of his machine had been shot away. WAR DEPARTMENT WANTS WORKERS Calls for Men Who Can Aid in Many Lines of Endeavor. Atlanta, Ga., July 16.—The War Department Friday an- ■ nounced that it wanted 297 ser- ! geants for the Quartermaster En- j listed Reserve Corps and a num- 1 her of other non-commissioned of-: fleers. Besides these a number of first-class privates are desired. A first-class sergeant receives ssl monthly, ordinary sergeants $44, corporals $36, first-class pri-, vate $33, cooks $42. In case of i foreign service an additional 20 1 per cent is added to the pay. The department wants six first class sergeants to act as wagon masters; 18 sergeants to act as assistant wagonmasters; 36 ser geants as horse-shoers; 28 ser geants as farriers; 18 sergeants as saddlers; 6 sergeant mechanics; 160 sergeant chauffeurs; 24 ser geant bakers; 1 first-class ser geant baker; 36 corporals for as sistant wagonmasters; 33 cooks, 580 first-class privates to act as teamsters; 20 corporals for bak ers; 14 first-class privates for bakers' assistants. No application of those who i are married or who have de- j pendents will be considered. The age limits are 21 to 45. The en-, listment is for the war only. Posse and Tigers in Running Duel. Albany, Ga., July 16 —When four white men in a car which Sheriff Coxwell, of Lee county, and two deputies were pursuing, opened fire on the officers in the outskirts of Smithville, two bul let holes were made in the officers’ car. The fire was vigorously re turned with results not yet defi nitely known. The offices had just seized sev- 1 eral suit cases filled with whiskey, which were put off a through train from Jacksonville, being placed in a Ford car. The car was seized and the negro driver was placed under arrest. It was afterward that the running duel occured. The four white men who are supposed to have had the liquor in charge were in a large touring car. A number of shots were fired during the chase, during a part of which the cars , were not far apart. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. JULY 19. 1917. Education Shoud Not Be Retarded By War President Smith Makes Strong Plea and Cites High Authority Against Let UP in Education and Preparedness. It is doubtless the feeling of some parents that the unsettled conditions incident to the war make it impossible for them to enter their sons and daughters in school this fall. Many of the young people themseives are under the impression that, as patriots, they cannot longer afford to continue their education, believing they should respond immediately to the call of industrial, army, navy, hospital or Red Cross work. But the actual conditions and needs of our country are such as will create an unprecedented demand for trained men and women. For guidance, therefore, of all interested in the national welfare and in the cause of education, the Brewton j Parker Institute wishes to call attention the view set forth by Dr. !P. P. Claxton, United States Commissioner of Education. Dr. Claxton says in part: “Many teachers have appealed to the Commissioner of Educa tion for advice as to what policy should be pursued by the schools j during the war. After careful consultation, I have prepared the brief j statement transmitted herewith for publication. This staementem- i bodies, I believe, the consensus of opinion, and is at the same time fully in harmony with the policy of the administration at Washington. “It is of the utmost importance that during the war and through the years immediately following there shall be no lowering in the efficiency of our systems of education. Our schools must be main tained at whatever necessary cost. “If the war should be long and severe, there will be great need in its later days for many young men and women of knowledge, training and skill; it may then be much more difficult than it is now to support our schools, to spare our children and youth from other service and to permit them to attend school. “When the war is over, whether within a few months or after many years, there will be such demands upon this country for men and women of knowledge, techinal skill, and of general culture as ‘ have never before come to any country. The world must be rebuilt. This country must play a far more important part than it has in the past. We should have trained men and women able and ready to render every possible assistance. “The age of the selective draft is from 21 to 30. Therefore a right conception of patriotism should induce all students who can not render some immediate service of great value to remain in school, concentrate their energies on their school work; and thus be all the more ready and fit when their services may be needed either for war or for the more important work of reconstruction and de velopment in our own and other countries when the war shall have ended. All the young men below the liability to selective draft and those not recommended for special service should be urged to re ! main and take full advantages of the opportunities offered by our schools and universities, to the end that they may be able to render j the most effective service in the later days of the war and the times •of need that will follow. The total number of students in the i schools should be increased rather than diminished. All students' ! should be made to understand that it is their duty to give to their ! country and to the world the best and fullest possible measure of | service, and that both will need more than they will get of that high type of service which only men and women of the best educa ; tion and training can give. Patriotism and the desire to serve hu manity may require of these young men and women the exercise of i that very high type of self-restraint that will keep them to their i tasks of preparation until the time comes when they can render i service which cannot be rendered by others. “The desire to render immediate service is praise-worthy, and , the spirit which prompts it should be fostered, but it is effective service that finally counts. Schools and school officers, teachers and students should ever keep this goal of effective service in mind.” Major Wood offers similar advice, and says, “Let us permit the war to interfere as little as possible with our even tenor. Let us couduct our business as usual; let us have education as usual.” It is hoped that these statements from Dr. Claxton and Gen. Wood will emphasize this unusual and patriotic demand that young men and young women be encouraged in their school work. Particularly do I wish to call the attention of these statements to the patrons and friends of the Brewton-Parker Institute. This is an opportune time to send your boys and girls to the Brewton- Parker Institute. Make sure that you prepare your boys and girls for the unprecedented opportunities that are to follow the war. It is a patriotic duty—even more, it is a duty, which, if performed will make for the betterment of every nation; for, other nations will look to America for help. Farmers throughout this section, with good crop prospects and ; the high prices that are to be paid for all farm products, will be in fine shape to send their boys and girls to school. The Brewton- I Parker Institute is here to serve you, and she welcomes your sons} and daughters. While the expenses have advanced, they are not !at all in keeping wdth the advance of farm products and other sup plies. Last year 1 thought that fifteen cent cotton was a great in- i ' centive to get parents to send their children to school, but now it is twenty-five and thirty cent cotton. Corn is two dollars per bushel, and long staple cotton is seventy cents per pound! Can we not hope that Brewton-Parker Institute will be running over next fall with bright boys and girls that wish to prepare for effective service?, Moultrie Man Shot Friday May Recovar. Moultrie, Ga., Jniy 16.—Harry jN. Davis, the young Moultrie man who was shot and believed to have been mortally wounded by J. S. Hall, a farmer, shortly after midnight Friday night, has a chance to recover, his physicians announced tonight. Davis, who was able briefly to discuss the case this afternoon, stated that Hall was fully dressed when he appeared armed with a shotgun, in response to his knock on the door with a view of rous ing some member of the houshold for the purpose of borrowing a pair of pliers to use in fixing a puncture. Hall, in a statement giving his version of the shooting, yesterday said that he jumped out of lied and rushed immediate ly to the door, firing both shots before he had fully awakened. . Hall is still in jail. Harris May be Named General of Regulars. Macon, Ga., July 16.—1 t is gen erally understood here that the name of Brigadier General Walter A. Harris, of the Georgia nation al guard, will be sent to the sen ate within a few days by Presi dent Wilson, for confirmation of appointment as brigadier general in the regular army. The presi dent has authority to appoint of ficers up to and including colonel, but those of higher grade must be affiirmed by the senate before be coming effective. General Harris’ friends are con fident that he will not meet with j opposition because of his ability as a military officer and the splen did record he made with the Georgia troops on the Texas bor der. He is held in high esteem : by the entire Georgia brigade. | Harris To Address 1 Editors of Georgia. ’ Washington, D. C., July 16. jWm. J. Harris, chairman of the 'Federal Trade Commision, left Washington this afternoon for Atlanta, where he will spend to morrow and part of Monday at the Hotel Ansley. Mr. Harris goes to deliver an address to the Georgia editors’ convention in Thomasville. It is j said he carries a message from : the President thanking the Geor gia press for its warm support of the administration. Had Ford Car Full of Liquor. Waynesboro, Ga., July 16- Sheriff Sam Story and his depu ties arrested this morning Ed L. Williamson and S. W. Fallau of Augusta, with a Ford car of whiskey, forty-two gallons, in different sized tin cans and two crocus sacks containing forty-nine pints and thirteen quarts in bot tles. They were arrested near the city limits while making repairs on their car. A concealed pistol and a partridge, killed in viola tion of the game law, were other charges against them, bond was fixed in the sum of $2,500. REGISTERED MEN SHOULD STUDY EXEMPTION RULES i Local Boards can only Ex empt Physical Disability or Dependents. Special Service to Monitor. Washington.—With drawing of lots for the selective draft army awaiting only completion of exemption machin ery in a few scattered sections of (ho country, officials here are anxious that registrants take every opportunity be tween now and the day of drawing to inform themselves thoroughly re garding exemption regulations so as to reduce to a minimum the confu sion to lie cleared up after designa tions are made. To this end attention was directed to various sections of the regulations over which questions have arisen, and it is suggested that the local boards and the press co-operate during the short time remaining before lots are drawn to insure that the registered men know just how to perform their part In the great task. Ho that easier access may be had to the lists of registration numbers in the hands of local boards, Provost Mar shal General Crowder telegraphed the governors of all the states asking that instead of posting the lists at the board offices, they be placed “in some safe, central office such as police headquarters." Making Airplanes Instead Os Zeppelins Lausanne, Switzerland. —Germany ! has abandoned construction of Zeppe | lins at the great factories at Frled richsaven, and is now turning all es I forts there to manufacturing airplanes. Large numbers of these aircraft are I produced weekly. Trial trips of the planes are carried out over Lake Oon ! stance. Dispatches from William Phil ip Simms, correspondent with the lirit- Ish armies, have recently reported a great general effort on the part of the | Germans to regain supremacy of the j air, with the appearance also of some | new type of machines, Including trl- ] planes. To Start For Front By September Washington Mobilization of the National Guard for war service has begun. While no orders for embarka tion of state troops for France, wilt be given until after August 5, when the entire force will be formally made a part of the TJnited States army, there are indications that some divisions will be regarded as ready to board transports soon after that date. The first clause of President Wilson's proclamation providing for the feder alization of the National Guard for the war has become effective. Squabble Delays Building Os Ships Washington. The government’s! merchant shipbuilding program has' been halted by Major General Goe-! tbals, manager of the shipping board's 1 fleet corporation, who has postponed ! j his plan to requisition all steel mer- I chant ships under construction and to ! let contracts for building two govern- ! ( ment- owned shipyards for producing j fabricated steel ships. At General 1 I Goethals* office it was said the post- 1 ponement was due to a request, by j Chairman Denrnan of the shipping j board for a short delay. S. S. CONVENTION DANIELL ASSO’C’N Will Be Held At Baptist Church in Lyons July 27-28-29. Program of The Sunday School Convention of The Daniell Asso ciation to be held with The Lyons Baptist Church, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, July 27-28-29. Friday Morning. 10:00 o’clock—Song and prayer service. 10:30 o’clock—Organize. 11:00 o’clock —The business of the church—G. W. Andrews. Friday Afternoon. 2:30 o’clock—Song and prayer service. 3:00 o’clock—Our standards and how to reach them—G. W. Andrews. 4:00 o’clock—Open discussion. 4:30 o’clock—Business. Friday Night. 7:45 o'clock—Song and prayer service. 8:15 o’clock—Grading, the why and how—G. W. Andrews. Saturday Morning. 10:00 o’clock—Song and prayer service. 10:30 o’clock—Open discussion on business. 11:00 o’clock —The trained teach er—G. W. Andrews Saturday Afternoon. 2:30 o’clock—Song and prayer service. 3:00 o’clock—A study of the Sun day School by departments—G. W. Andrews. 4:00 o’clock—Open discussion. 4:30 o’clock - Business. Saturday Night. 7:45 o’clock—Song and prayer service. 8:15 o’clock—lmportance of child training—T. J. Ainsworth. Sunday Morning. 10:00 o’clock- Sunday School. 11:00 o’clock—Sermon —H. W. Williams, 1). I). The above program may be changed at any time during the convention whenever, and what ever respect, the wisdom of the brethren dictates such a change. You will notice that Bro. An drews will be with us only through Saturday afternoon. I deem his lectures of the greatest importance to the Sunday School interest of our association. If you cannot stay longer he sure to be present Friday and Saturday to hear him. I would consider it a great fav or if those who expect to attend will furnish me their names as early as possible, so I can have your home arranged for before you get here. If you cannot be sure of coming till two days be fore, send in your name then. It would he a great disappoint ment to make preparations for great numbers of people who do not come; it would he embarrass ing not to make sufficient arrange ; ment for those who do come. Without the names it is all a “leap in the dark”. Drop me a card, and Bay: “I’ll be there”, if it is only one day before the meeting. Fraternally yours, J. D. Kahun, Pastor. Woman Kills Monster Crane in Chattooga. Lyerly, Ga., July 17.—A mon ster crane, very uncommon in the bounds of Chattooga, measuring nearly five feet from tip to tip of its wings, met its fate when it chose Godwin’s fish pond for its feeding place. Mrs. Godwin, see ing the huge bird lazily wading ! through the waters of the lake | spying on the finny tribe, secured from the rack her husband’s double-barreled shotgun and one shot was sufficient to put an end to the crane’s career. Mrs. God ! win took delight in exhibiting the big bird and the fact that she used a big gun to slay it with made the story all the more inter jesting. NO. 12.
