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The Henry County Weekly
A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of McDonough and Henry County.
VOL. XLIV.
PATRIOIWRALLY!
At Hampton
SATURDAY, APRIL 13.
Hon. J. Q. Nolan, Atlanta; Hon. J.
J. Flint, Griffin, speakers.
Also French and English offi=
cers who have been “over the top”
will tell what “Our Boys” are doing
“over there,” and what our Gov=
ernment is expecting of the Third
Liberty Loan Drive.
Every available automobile,
headed by Hampton Band, in line,
with completely arranged parade.
Everybody expected to do their
full duty and be present.
DON’T FAIL.
Delinquent List*
The following is a list of regis
trants failing to return question
aries or report for physical exam
ination, and are advised if they
wijj come forward voluntarily and
show cause why they have not
responded to notices sent them,
and if proven to the satisfaction of
Board they will consider the de
lay, as per section 135 of Selective
Service Regulations:
Ernest Turner, McDono., Rt. 4.
George Allen, Hampton, Rt. 5.
Oliver Glenn, Flippen.
Son Pope, Hampton.
Wiliie McCray, McDono., Rt. 5.
Oscar Johnson, Locust G., Rt 1.
Willie Anderson, Stockbridge.
John Lee Smith, Stockbridge.
J. G. Grant, Covington.
Early Stalls, McDonough.
Fish Knight, Stockbridge.
Mack Daniel Berry, Flippen.
James White, McDonough.
John Richardson, Stock bridge.
Clarence Perkins, Lueila.
Edw. Price Coleman, Stockridge.
Raymond Loyd, Flippen.
Eddie C. Rowden, Locust Grove.
Ben Clark, Stockbridge. ■
Grady Walker, McDonough.
Otis Brewster, Lueila, Rt. 1.
Raymond Bradley, McDonough.
J. R. Hambrick, Stockbridge.
John Henry Freeman, McDono.
Lige Orr, Stockbridge.
Julius Geeen, McDonough.
Wm. Sam Bonham, Stockbridge.
Claud Wm. Walker, Locust Grove.
James Davis, Stockbridge.
Clarence Smith, Stockbridge.
Wm. Washington Heard, L. G.
Raymond Solomon Harden, McD.
John Metis, Stockbridge.
« McDonough, Georgia. Friday, april 12, 1918
Coy Robidson, Stockbridge.
Rubele Jones, Hampton.
Henry Hambrick, Stockbridge.
Oliver Ison, McDonough.
Malvin Allen, McDonough.
Charles Gleaton,Stockbridge, Rt. 1.
Johnnie Tarpley, Locust Grove.
Harvey D. Harris, Hampton.
Eddie Mays, McDonough.
Joe Watkins, 119 Cherry St., Ma
con, (Capital Cafe.)
Ed Slade, Hampton.
John Veal, McDonough.
Henry Willis,
Jno. Wilson McKibben, “
Fletcher Williamson,
John Tombs, Hampton.
Paul Johnson, McDonough,
John Godfrey,
Will Smith, Stockbridge.
William Cloud Hampton.
Elmo Howard, Stockbridge.
Eugene Allen, Hampton.
Manse Hambrick, Flippen
Charlie Haygood, McDonough.
Willie Gleaton, Stockbridge.
George Washington, McDonough.
Early Vaugh, “
Anderson Thos. Watts, Stockb.
Raymond Ray, McDonough.
Comer Arnold, Stockbridge.
Will Fuller, Rex, Rt. 1.
Rodgers Weaver, McDonough.
For Oversea Service.
Four Henry county boys left
Camp Wheeler, Macon, last Sun
day, for Camp Merritt, N. J., pre
paratory for embarkation over
seas to join the armies in France.
They were transferred from Cd.
B, 124th Infantry, as follows :
Private. R. S. Carter.
A. C. Piper. 121st Inf.
Co. A.
Corporal Van Carter, Co. A 121st
Inf.
E. P. James, Co. A. 121st Inf.
PRESIDENT WILSON'S
PATRIOTIC ADDRESS
Possibly the greatest speech
President Wilson has yet made
was delivered at Baltimore last
Saturday, in the Fifth Regiment
Armory where he was first nomi
nated as chief magistrate of the
nation. It was upon the opening
of the third Liberty Loan drive,
and is as follows:
Fellow Citizens:
This is the anniversary of our
acceptance of Germany’s challenge
to fight for our right to live and
be free, and for the sacred rights
of free men everywhere. The
nation is awake. There is no heed
to call to it. We know what the
war must cost, our utmost sacri
fice, the lives of our fittest men,
and, if need be, all that we possess.
The loan we are met to discuss is
one of the least parts of what we
are called upon to give and to do,
though in itself imperative. The
people of the whole country are
alive to the necessity of it, and are
ready to lend to the utmost, even
wheie it involves a sharp skimp
ing and daily sacrifice to lend out
of meager earnings. They will
look with reprobation and con
tempt upon those who can and
will not, upon those who demand
a higher rate of interest, upon
those who think of i* as a mere
commercial transaction. I have
not come, therefore, to urge the
loan. I have come only to give
you, if I can, a more vivid con
ception of what it is for.
The reasons for this great war,
the reason why it had to come
and the need to tight it through
and the issues that hang upon its
outcome are more clearly disclosed
now than ever' before.
Vision Clearer Now
It is easy to see just what this
particular loan means, because the
cause we are fighting for stands
more sharply revealed than at any
previous crises of the momentous
struggle. The man who knows
least can now see plainly how the
cause of justice stands a id what
the imperishable thing is he is
asked to invest in. Men in Amer
ica may be more sure than they
ever were before that the cause is
their own and that, if it should be
lost, their own great nation’s olace
and mission in the world would be
lost with it.
I cail you to witness, my fellow
countrymen, that at no stage of
this terrible business have I judged
the purposes of Germany intemp
erately. I should be ashamed in
the presence of affairs so grave,
so fraught with the destinies of
mankind of all the world, to soeak
with truculence, to use the weak
language of hatred or vindictive
Durpose. We must judge as we
would be judged. I have sought
to learn the objects Germany has
in this war from the mouths of her
own spokesmen and to deal as
frankly with them as I wished
them to deal with me. I have laid
bare our own ideals, our own pur
Doses without reserve or doubtful
phrase, and have asked them 'to
say plainly what it is that they
seek.
We Must be Just.
We have ourselves proposed no
injustice, no agression. We are
ready whenever the final reckon
ing is made to be just to the Ger-
man people, deal fairly with the
German power as with all others.
There can be no differences in
peoples in the final judgement, if
it is, indeed, to be a righteous
judgement. To propose anything
but justice, even-handed and dis
passionate justice to Germany at
any time, whatever the outcome
of the war, would be to renounce
and dishonor our own cause. For
we ask nothing that we are not
willing to accord.
It has been with this thought
that I have sought to learn from
those who spoke for Germany
whether it was justice or domin
ion and the expectation of forcing
their own will uuon the other na
tions of the world that the German
leaders were seeking. They have
answered, answered in unmistable,
terms. They have avowed that it
was not justice, but dominion, and
the unhindered expectation of
their own will.
The avowal has not come from
Germany’s statesmen. It has come
from her military leaders who are
her real rulers. Her statesmen
have said that they wished peace
and were ready to discuss its terms
whenever their opponents were
willing to sit down at the confer
ence table with them. Her pres
ent Chancellor has said —in indefi
nite and uncertain terms, indeed,
and in phrases that often seem to
deny their own meaning, but with
as much plainess as he thought
prudent that he believed that
peace should be based upon the
principles which we had declared
would be our own in the final
settlement.
The Shame of Brest-Litovsk.
At Brest Litvsok her civilian
delegates spoke in similar terms;
professed their desire to conclude
a fair peace and accord to the
peoples with whose fortunes they
were dealing the right to choose
their own allegiances. But action
accompanied and followed the pro
fession. Their military masters,
the men who act for Germany and
exhibit her purpose i i execution,
proclaimed a very different con
clusion. We can not mistake
what they have done —in Russia,
in Finland, in the Ukraine, in
Roumania. The real test of theii
justness and fairness has come.
From this we may judge the rest.
They are enjoying in Russia a
cheap triumph in which no brave
or gallant nation can long take
pride. A great people helpless by
their own act, lies for the time at
their mercy. Their fair profes
sions are forgotten. They no
where set up justice, hut every
where impose their power and
exploit everything for their own
use and aggrandizement and the
peoples of conquered provinces
are invited to be free under their
dominion.
Are we not justified in believing
that they would do the same things
at their western front if they were
not there face to face with armies
whom even their countless divis
ions can not overcome?
If, when they have felt their
check to be final, they should pro
pose favorable and equitable terms
with regard to Belgium and France
and Italy, could they blame us if
we concluded that they did so only
to assure themselves of a free
hand in Russia and the East?
Their purpose is undoubtedly to
mak' all the Slavic peoples, all
the five and ambitious nations of
the B title peninsula, all the lands
that Turkey has dominated and
misru d, subject to tneir will and
ambr »n a id build upon that do
miui ni an empire of force upon
which they fancy that they can
then erect an empire of gain and
comm rcialsupremacy —an empire
as h >->lile to the Americas as to
Europ *in 'll it will overawe —an
emp hich will ultimately mas
ter P rsi . India and the peoples
of the Far East. In such a pro
gram our ideals, the ideals of jus
tice and humanity and liberty, the
principle of the free self-determi
nation of nations upon which ali
the modern world insists can play
no part. They are rejected for
the ideals of power, for the prin
ciple that the strong must rule the
. weak, that trade must follow the
flag, whether those to whom it is
taken welcome it or not, that the
peoples of the world are to be
made subject to the patronage and
overlordship of those who have
the power to enforce it.
That program once earned out,
America and all who care or dare
to stand with her must arm and
prepare themselves to contest the
mastery of the world, a mastery
in which the rights of common
men, the rights of women and of
all who are weak must for the
time being be trodden under foot
and disregarded and the old age
long struggle for freedom and
right begin again at its beginning.
Everything that America has lived
for and loved and grown great to
vindicate and bring to a glorious
realization will have fallen in utter
ruin and the gates of mercy once
more pitiously shut upon mankind.
A Proposterous Thing.
The thing is preposterous and
impossible; and yet is not that
what the whole course and action
of the German armies has meant
wherever they have moved? Ido
not wish even in this moment of
utter disillusionment to judge
h trshly or unrighteously. I judge
only what the German arms have
accomplished with unpitying thor
oughness throughout every fair
region they have touched.
What then are we to do? For
myself, I ain ready, ready still,
ready even now to discuss a fair
and just and honest peace at any
| time that it is sincerely purposed
I —a peace in which the strong and
the weak shall fare alike. But the
(answer when I proposed such a
peace caine from German com
jmandersin Russia, and I can not
mistake the meaning of the an
| swer.
Germay’s Challenge Accepted.
I accepted the challenge. 1
know that you accept it. All the
world shall know that you accept
it. It shall appear in the utter
sacrifice and self-forgetfulnes >
witn which we shall give all that
we love and all that we have t<>
redeem the world and make it fit
for free men like ourselves to live
i:i. This now is the meaning of
all that we do. Let everything
that we say, my fellow country
men, everything that we henc -
forth plan and accomplish ring
true to this response till the maj
esty and might of our concerte I
power shall fill the thought ami
utterly defeat the force of those
who flout and misprize what we
honor and hold dear.
Germany has once more said
that force and force alone shall
decide whether justice and peace
shall reign in the affairs of men.
whether right as America con
ceives it or dominioi} as she con
ceives it shall determine the des
tinies of mankind. There is there
fore but one response possible
from us —force, force to the ur
most, force without stint or limit,
the righteous and triumphant force
which shall make right the law of
the world and cast every selfish
dominion down in the dust.
To the Coal Consumers,
of Henry County.
You will find the blank applica
tions in hands of your local coafe
dealer. If you will call on him
and make application for your re
quirements for next winter you
will greatly assist him in securing
prompt shipment so that we will
not be short of coal as we were
last winter.
A. N. Brown.
County Chairman.
Big Hampton Rally Saturday.
$1.50 A YEAR
