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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1918)
The Henry County Weekly By J. A. FOUCHE. Entered at the postoffice at McDon ough, Ga.. as second class mail matter. Advertising Rates 15c per inch, posi sition be additional —special contracts. Official Orßan of Henry County. McDonough, Ga., May 10, 1918. Clips and Comments High treason calls for high gal lows. Patriots, get your dollars into the trenches. It’s the fellow r who lacks the push who needs the pull. Plums are almost ripe, and a big fig crop is on the trees. Every road drag in this part of' the country ought to be going now. Now that the weather appears to have settled, the picnic season ! can open again. German arms make no headwav where the seeds of German cor ruption do not take root. Of Russia’s 180,000,000 people about 500 have formally agreed to accept the German terms. The mold in which heroes were cast evidently still exists. Gener al Haig was turned out from it. A billion dollars a month will not be an exorbitant price for this nation to pay for the Kaiser’s de feat. Our boys in France are stand ing behind the lines waiting for their “crowded hours of glorius life.” The wheat crop will soon be coming up, but Congress predicts that it will not come up to $2.50 a bushel. What President Wilson says, added to what General Foch does n’t say, make a complete guide to victory. Thanks, J. Pluvius, for your generous outpourings. We can now manage to get along for quite a w-hile with fair skies. "Nobody but the farmer knows how oats, peas, beans and barley grow’,” but the nation is getting a good idea how they taste. Now watch the little brown hen do her bit toward relieving the meat shortage. She’s one of the greatest little patriots among us. Always boost —never knock. Of all classes of citizens the knocker is the most undesirable, if not de spisable. Cut out your grouch. The pore heathen Hindoo, He does the best he kin do; Ef he ain’t got no clo’s, He jes’ makes his skin do. j “For the Lord’s Sake, Men, Do Hurry Up.” If a brute had attacked your wife and murdered some of your j children, would you, while his hands were dripping red with the blood of your loved ones, talk , peace with him ? If such a fiend wanted to dis cuss peace with you while still at tacking your daughters, would you tight, with all the Dower that God gave you, to throttle the beast, or would you parley back and forth and suggest that the matter might be settleed on some basis which left the rapist and murderer unpunished and free to take all the loot of which he could rob your house ? On the battlefields of Europe our loved ones are being murder ed —for remember Germany’s war is a definite war of murder and outrage —and every electric spark that sweeps across the Atlantic from the trenches in France will bring an ever-increasing list of these murdered men who have gone out to save us from the at tack of the murderer and the rapist. Our allies who for nearly four years, with superb heroism and at a fearful cost of men and money, have stood between us and hell, are calling to us, “For God’s sake, Hurry up,” ere it be everlastingly too late. But we talk about peace, when there is no possible peace except the peace of death to us or death to Germany’s fearful hell-begotten power. Some men and women do not yet comprehend the meaning of this war, some are pro Germans, some are German spies, some are cowards who disgrace the moth ers who gave them birth, and some are simply plain everyday fools who go out arid root and live with the swine of the field until the appointed time to be killed for the good of mankind. Peace! There can be no peace between heaven and hell, between God and Satan ! Peace with unrepentant, un hung, rapists and murderers! Peace with the vilist criminals who ever blackened the records of man’s history! Peace with the outrager of your wife and daughter as you look on! Peace with the cold blooded butchers who murder your belov ed son and the sons of millions of others! t Is there anything on earth so craven, so bereft of soul that it would claim to be a man and yet be willing to parley with these ac cursed murderers and worse led by William, the accursed ? “Is life so dear or peace so sweet” that we are willing to per mit any, word of peace to be ut tered until we have throttled the demon and fought him to a finish? And then, when he cries for mer cy, let there be no mercy except such as he gave to Belgium and France, no mercy except mercy to all civilization for all the centuries to come, expressed through the gallows as these foul blots on mankind, the Kaiser and his asso ciates, pay the just penalty for their unspeakable sms. Then and not until then should we have one word to say to Ger mans or Germany. Now our su preme duty is to fight, fight to kill, kill until these brutes realize that a mightier power than theirs has been sent by God to do His work in their utter destruction. They are murdering our loved ones. Every day brings the toll of death and every day for months and perhaps for years w r e must suffer the awful agonies which our allies have endured, and there is no power to lessen this toil of our Trouble for Merchants. Atlanta, Ga., May 3. —Excess profits, particularly on flour and flour, under the guise of “risk of collection on charge accounts” bid fair to bring a shower of trouble on the shoulders of not a few merchants in the middle and lower part of the «tate. The par ticular offenders are dealers who supply the country trade, and to these special attention is being now devoted by the food admin istration. The practice, carried to the extent it is, comes clearly within the prohibition of “unfair trade practices” and is to be so treated. The method used carries with it the excuse that rates as high as $20.00 per barrel for flour and 12 to 15 cents per pound for sugar, which already have been found booked, are charged a against farming people because their charge accounts have to be carried by the supplying mer chant over a period of time and with it goes a “risk of collection.” The same principle of profiteering is found to extend through the whole list of supplies to farners. Under the policy of procedure announced today by Dr. Andrew M. Soule, federal food administra tor Georgia, the farmers are to be protected against themselves as well as prfiteering merchants. The administration will begin this week a book inspection of a num ber of merchants under suspicion, and in each case where it is found more than the fixed “reasonable profit” plus the "the reasonable carrying charge “allowed by the administration” the merchant will be ruled and required to refund and credit the charge account with the amount the food admin istration finds to have,, been un reasonable profit, otherwise 11 dases will be made charging outright prdfiteerin&’and urftair trade-prac tices. Under operation of these in structions it is a certainty that some farmers in the state, when they prepare to settle their charge accounts, will find themselves credited with refunds. Marketing Hogs beats burying them. Steye Hoo ver, Alt. Pleasant, lowa, writes, “Commenced feeding my herd of about 100 hogs B. A. Thomas’ Hog Powder over two months ago. Fifity were sick and off feed. Nearby herds had cholera. I did not lose one —they are well and growing fast.” Fur sale by Henry County Sup ply Co. innocent loyed ones, except we kill and keep on killing the mur rtorprc ujhr» lil/o wilrl hoocio or-o V 4 uiv 1 O ** HU »i»» u ?* uu ueuoio (11 u seeking to destroy the world. This is our risk. Let us forget all else, let us make sure that no word or thought of peace shall be uttered in this land; let us deter mine to create the mightiest fight ing machine ever built by man to drive it with all the power of one million freemen who seek to save ourselves and the world from the destruction of hell’s most active workers If President Wilson and Secre tary AlcAdoo want to make the Liberty Loan go with a rush, if they want to quicken the super human power, the energies of this country, let them call the nation to the struggle on this definite ba sis and on the basis of death to every German spy and life im prisonment to every pro-German and say that not a word of peace shall be uttered in America, not a word of parleying, directly or in directly, shall be held with these red-handed murders —then they will leap forward to war and to victory.—Manufacturer’s Record. Commendable Quality in Jewelry No matter how little you pay, you get quality here for the price. 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