To the Voters of the Sixth Con
gressional District of Georgia
After a careful survey of the Sixth
Congressional District, I have decided
to become a candidate for Congress
from this district, subject to the rules
governing the next Democratic Pri
mary.
I base my candidacy for congress
on my record as a state legislator,
which record I respectfully submit to
the consideration of the voters of the
Sixth District.
In addition to taking an active part
In all general legislation enacted while
I was a member of the House and
Senate for many years of service, I
am the sole author of the following
general legislation which is of benefit
to all the people of the State:
(1) The Parole Law, whereby men
who have been convicted of crime and
sentenced under the law to nenal ser
vice, are given another opportunity in
life of becoming useful and respected
citizens.
(2) That Constitutional Amend
ment which authorizes counties to
give unto the rural pupils the same
free high school training, as is afford
ed by the towns and cities; and which
gives the county authorities the
right to use the State’s appropriation
for the common schools in connection
with High School instruction, and
(3) That Act which prevented the
Louisville & Nashville Railway Co.
from obtaining a charter from the
State to parallel the tracks of the
State’s road, the Western & Atlantic
from Chattanooga to Atlanta, until af
ter the new lease was made by the
W. & A. Commission with the Louis
ville & Nashville for a period of fifty
years, and at a much higher rate of
rental than was ever obtained before.
I was elected President of the Sen
ate and ex-officio Lieutenant Governor
of the State for the years 1915-1916
without opposition.
On my election to Congress T shall
devote myself to the duties of a Con
gressman with the purpose of serving
the people of my District, State and
Country as faithfully as I have en
deavored to serve the people of my
County and State in the State Legis
lature.
We must stand united on all meas
ures until the present war against Ger
many is won for our country, and
American lives and property are made
secure beneath the folds of our flag
throughout the entire world.
After the war is won for our peo
ple and when we return with joy and
gladness to our pursuits of peaceful
life, the important questions both for
eign and domestic which will so vitally
affect our future prosperity, must be
solved by Congress with an eye single
to the interests of America, so as to
accord full liberty with exact justice
to all the class of our citizens
Our State sovereignty must be pre-
served if we would perpetuate our form
of government.
Next in importance is the question
of land and water transportation de
velopment, and the regulating and im
proving of our transportation facilities
in order that the country may be prop
erly developed and defended, and the
destructive conflicts between capital
and labor prevented by providing just
returns unto capital actually invested
and fair working hours and wages for
labor.
I greatly desire the proper develop
ment of Georgia’s deep-sea ports, and
heartily endorse the proposed plan of
the business men of Bibb county to
obtain government aid in opening the
Ocmulgee channel so as to make It
navigable all the year round, and equip
it with a sufficient number of freight
barges to take care of the commerce
that will be carried. This waterway
from Macon to Brunswick is nature’s
gift to the Sixth District and should
be utilized to its effective fullness. It
should be operated in conjunction with
the deep-sea connections of the Mer
chant Marine to be operated after the
war, thereby greatly benefiting the
people of the District and the State.
I shall work for a permanent loca
tion of the military camp at Camp
Wheeler. This camp because of its
naturally healthful and advantageous
surroundings being located in the
heart of the State, is entitled to as
many soldiers as any camp, in the
State, and should have them.
Our immigration laws must be
changed so as to bar from our coun
try every undesirable alien, and pur
naturalization laws changed so as to
prevent any enemy of our country ex
ercising the right to vote and enjoying
the protection of our citizenship.
Rural free delivery of the mails
should be extended until every home
is reached, while educational and vo
[cational training of our people should
be rendered thorough and effective.
The government farm loan system
with its low rate of interest to the
borrowers should be so simplified and
perfected as to make it possible for
those who wish to avail themselves of
its benefits can do so without unnec
essary delay or expense.
Believing in the great principles of
the Democratic Party, and its motto,
"equal rights to all and special privi
leges to none," I submit my candidacy
and respectfully solicit with apprecia
tion your votes and influence with
the promise that on election I shall
devote my energy and best efforts to
the solution of all questions that may
come unto me, pledging that my in
fluence and vote shall he used solely
for the best interests of the people
! whom alone T shall serve.
Respectfully.
OGDEN PERSONS
HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH, GEORGIA
REPORT MADE ON AVIATION
Long Delays, Faulty Organization And
Other Serious Mistakes
Are Charged
Washington. Strictures upon fail
ures, disappointments and delays in
the American aircraft program are
coupled with praise for what now has
been accomplished, and a statement
that quantity production soon may be
expected in a long report submited by
the senate military subcommittee on
its aircrafte investigation. While com
menting favorably upon reorganization
already affected, the committee strong
ly urges one-man control through the
creation of a new department of avia
tion headed by a cabinet member.
Waste of millions of dollars, faulty
executive organization, improper loca
tion of training fields, and employment
of inexperienced inspectors, and fa
voritism to contractors are among the
faults charged to the old organization
by the committee.
The report is impersonal, explain
ing that questions of individual dis
hon'esty or official corruption, were
left for investigation to the depart
ment of justice inquiry directed by
Charles E. Hughes. It was submitted
with the unanimous indorsement of
the senators who have conducted the
inquiry during the last few months —•
Senator Thomas, of Colorado, chair
man, and Senators Reed, of Missouri;
Smith, of Georgia; New, of Indiana;
and Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey. Af
ter approval by the full military com
mitee it was read to the senate.
In a statement later commenting on
the report, Secretary Baker said the
country should be gratified to know
that quantity production of airplanes
is now assured. Senator Thomas put
a letter into the record from Howard
E. Coffin, former chairman of the air
craft production board, disclaiming re
sponsibility for himself and other ci
vilian members for actions of army
and navy officers.
GERMANS NOW ADMIT
STRENGTH OF UNITED STATES
German Press Tells Public That 400,-
000 Americans Are Actually
In Battle Array
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Amsterdam.—At last the German
press has given up struggling against
the truth. In a short notice, which
appears in virtually all the papers, the
identical nature of which suggests of
ficial inspiration, the reluctant admis
sfon is made that Secretary Baker’s
figures regarding the strength of the
American forces in France are about
correct.
One or two papers add the lame ex
planation that their former figures
w'ere based on the position prior to
May and that the really big shipments
of men from America began since
then.
The papers now confront themselves
with the thought that of the 1,300,000
or more Americans, only 400,000 are
actually in battle array, with 300,000
behind the front and that the remain
ing 600,000 are etappen troops (en
gineers, railway men and general
workers).
The Berlin Taeglische Rundschau
adds as its own information that not
more than 150,000 Americans have up
to the present been “noticed’’ on the
west front.
Allies Pass The Summit Of The War
Paris. —“We have passed the summit
of the mountain as regards the war,”
said Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant
secretary of the United States navy,
at a reception given by the French
press. “As to the submarines off the
coast,” he continued, “the danger
points can now’ be said to have been
made safe.” Mr. Roosevelt in the
course of his address, insisted upon
the absolute necessity of all govern
ment ministers and heads of depart
ments seeing the war with their own
eyes in order to understand its great
ness.
Discharged W. U. Men Will Be Hired
New- York—All former employees
of the Western Union Telegraph com
pany who w’ere discharged because of
their affiliations with the Commercial
Telegraphers’ Union of America dur
ing the recent difficulties between the
company and the union before the
company was taken over by the gov
ernment, will have the privilege of re
instatement, it is announced by the
company.
Rule Of Seniority In Army Abandoned
Washington. - Definite abandon
ment of the rule of seniority in favor
of the policy of selection in the ap
pointment and of of
ficers in the army was announced in
a general order by the w r ar depart
ment. The order also announces that
future officer material will come from
the ranks, enlisted men showing ex
ceptional ability being sent to training
schools maintained for that purpose at
which commissions for the grade of
second lieutenant will be issued to
successful candidates.
Memorable Vacation,
Having a week off on account of be
ing overworked, and by advice of our
physician, our wife suggests that it
will be a corking opportunity to go
over the house together and find the
loose ends of things and fix them up.
She has laid out half a dozen blinds and
rollers that need fixing, a carpet that
could be beat without hurting its gen
eral reputation, a number of pans to
solder, a piece of gable that’s loose
on the roof, some rain spouting that
needs attention and a few old family
pictures that could be tightened, dust
ed, polished, frames revarnished, etc.,
and stuck up in the parlor.
All in all, our week’s vacation is go
ing to be something to remember. —
Richmond Times-Dispateh.
Stomach Troubles and Dysentery
cansofl from Drinking lee Water or from sleeping
near an open wiDdow should be checked immedi
ftelr. Get a bottle of GUOVB’S BABY BOWKL
MHDIUNB, a safe and sure remedy for Summer
niatfbueaa. It is lust as effective for Adults as for
Children.
Such as Praising the Kaiser.
Some fellows are born with black
eyes; others get them in various ways.
Texas is abandoning ostrich grow
ing.
A Message to Mothers
YOU know the real human doctors right around in your neighborhood:
the doctors made of flesh and blood just like you: the doctors with
souls and hearts : those men who are responding to your call in the
dead of night as readily as in the broad daylight; they are ready
to tell you the good that Fletcher’s Castoria has done, is doing and
will do, from their experience and their love for children.
Fletcher’s Castoria is nothing new. We are not asking you to
try an experiment. We just want to impress upon you the importance
of buying Fletcher’s.
Your physician will tell you this, as he knows there are a num
ber of imitations on the market, and he is particularly interested in
the welfare of your baby.
Genuine Castoria at ways bears the signature of
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SOLD FOR 50 YEARS.
For MALARIA, CHILLS and FEVER. “ G so t „”r
Counting the Cost.
3am tarts unlimited was little Bob
by's idea of heaven, but since war
flour came in and fat was scarce he
hadn’t been quite so fond of them as
before.
Mother, coming into the kitchen one
afternoon, saw Bobby gazing at a dish
of newdy baked tarts.
“What are you doing, Bobby!” she
asked sharply.
“I was just wondering, mother.”
“Wondering? You haven’t touched
those tarts, I hope?”
“Not yet mother,” said Bobby. “I
was just wondering if they’re nice
enough to be whipped for.”
They're Stubborn.
“What is the easiest way to win a
woman?”
“By making her think you hate her.’ -
HAARLEM OIL CAPSULES
IF YOUR BACK ACHES
Do you *eel tired and “worn-out?”
Are you nervous and irritable? Don’t
sleep well at night? Have a “dragged
out,” unrested feeling when you get
up in the morning? Dizzy spells? Bil
ious? Bad taste in the mouth, back
ache, pain or soreness in the loins,
and abdomen? Severe distress when
urinating, bloody, cloudy urine or sed
iment? All these indicate gravel or
stone in the bladder, or that the poi
sonous microbes, which are always in
your system, have attacked your kid
neys.
You should use GOLD MEDAL
Haarlem Oil Capsules immediately.
The oil soaks gently into the walls
and lining of the kidneys, and the lit
tle poisonous animal germs, which are
causing the inflammation, are imme
diately attacked and chased out of
your system without inconvenience or
pain.
Wasn’t So Very Wrong.
Food Regulator Merritt was discuss
ing the high cost of living and other
things, and remarked, “The fluctua
tions come so fast that it is impossi
ble to keep an accurate lino on prices.
We are all in the same position as the
small boy who said to his mother:
“Why do hats cost more than houses,
mamma?”
“But they don't, dear. What made
you think so?”
“Well, that signs says ‘llats. $lO up.’
and yesterday I saw a sign that said
‘Houses, $lO down.' ”
By No Means.
“One must not confuse liberty with
license,” “No; especially when think
ing of a marriage license.” —Life.
The best preparation for a hard
day’s work is a good night’s sleep.
GIRLS! USE LEMONS
FOR SUNBURN, TAN
Try It! Make this lemon lotion
to whiten your tanned or
freckled skin.
Squeeze the juice of two lemons in
to a bottle containing three ounces of
Orchard White, shake well, and you
have a quarter pint of the best freckle,
sunburn and tan lotion, and complex
ion whitener, at very, very small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and any
drug store or toilet counter will supply
three ounces of Orchard White for a
few cents. Massage this sweetly fra
grant lotion into the face, neck, arms
and hands and see how quickly the
freckles, sunburn, windburn and tan
disappear and how clear, soft and
white the skin becomes. Y r es! It is
harmless. —Adv.
Sometimes.
“Speech is an engine of action.”
“Often it is a hot-air engine.”—Bal
timore American.
Her Golden Heart.
“You say you are in love with Miss
Baggs?”
“I’m sure I am.”
“But I can't see anything attractive
about her.”
“Neither can I sec it. But it’s in the
bank, allright.”
Canine Statistics.
“What interest has the dog in chas
ing that cat?” “I guess his interest is
about one purr scent.”
Clear Your Skin
Wkile You Sleep
with Cuticura
All druggists; Soap 25. Ointment2s & so,
Sample each free of “Cntlcura, Kept. E, Benton.’'
Don't ignore the “little pains and
aches,” especially backaches. They
may be little now but there is no tell
ing how soon a dangerous or fatal dis
ease of which they are the forerun
ners may show’ itself. Go after the
cause of that backache at once, or you
may find yourself in the grip of an in
curable disease.
Do not delay a minute. Go to your
druggist and insist on his supplying
you with a box of GOLD MEDAL
Haarlem Oil Capsules. In 24 hours
you will feel renew r ed health and vigor.
After you h;ive cured yourself, con
tinue to take one or tw r o Capsules
each day so as to keep in first-class
condition, and ward off the danger of
future attacks. Money refunded if
they do not help you. Ask for the
original imported GOLD MEDAL
brand, and thus be sure of getting the
genuine.—Adv.
In English Eyes.
Chairman Padgett of the house na
val committee tells of a recent trip to
Old Point Comfort with some English
officers. They were watching the bath
ers, and one of the visitors commented
on the brevity of the bathing suits.
“Yes,” remarked Padgett, “we econ
omize even there. Every individual is
doing her bit.”
“I see,” was the reply, “less skirt,
and more individual.”
Grove’s Tasteless chill Tonic
destroys the malarial germs which are transmitted
to the blood by the Malaria Mosquito. Price tiOc.
The bitterer the fight the sweeter
the victory.
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Try Murine Eye Remedy
No Smarting Just Eye Comfort. 60 cen*? at
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