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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (April 12, 1918)
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
