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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 6, 1918)
WILLIAM J. HARRIS Candidate for the United States Senate V *%&s&?' - The Man of the Hour, and Why William J. Harris was born in Ce dartown, Polk county, Georgia, Feb ruary 3, 1868. He was educated in the common schools of Polk county and the University of Georgia, teach ing school during the summer to pro vide means for his college training. In 1895, he married Miss Julia Whee ler, daughter of Gen. Joseph Wheeler, the distinguished Southern cavalry leader. Mr. Harris has three brothers now serving in the United States Army, Gen. P. C. Harris, Maj. Seals Harris and Capt. Hunter Harris. Many young men have been beneficiaries of Mr. Harris’ aid in obtaining an edu cation to equip them for life’s work. Political Service. As Chairman of the Polk County Democratic Executive Committee, lie succeeded in establishing the “white primary,” in 1892. As private secretary to Senator A. S. Clay, and under the training of this distinguished Georgian, Mr. Harris be gan, in early life, to look after the Interests in Washington of Georgians »om every section. In 1912 Mr. Harris managed Presi dent Wilson’s first campaign in Geor gia; was elected chairman of the State Democratic Executive Commit tee, and played prominent part in roll ing up the largest majority Georgia ever gave a candidate for President. Legislative Service. Mr. Harvis represented the 38th dis trict in the state senate in 1911-12, and there w-orked and voted for every measure that would help the farmers and benefit the taxpayers of rtie state. Some of these include: (1) Mr. Harris introduced and aid ed in the passage of the bill abolish ing the unlimited fees of oil inspec tors, and fixing their maximum salary at SIOO per month. This law lias saved the state thousands of dollars. In 1917 alone, it saved the state net, $182,558. (2) Mr. Harris introduced and pass ed the bill requiring lobbyists to reg ister, thereby eliminating the grafting, professional lobbyist, and protecting legislation. (3) Mr. Harris advocated the sepa rate leasing of the W. & A. Railroad from the other state property in Chat tanooga, a policy since adopted by the "Lease Commission.’’ (4) Personally, Mr. Harris has al ways been a consistent prohibitionist, and has always supported all measures looking to freeing the state from the liquor traffic. National Service. As director of the United States Cen sus, to which he was appointed by President Wilson, officials today say that Mr. Harris was the most efficient director since the bureau was estab lished. The chief “criticism” against his administration, made by Judge Hughes, Republican nominee for Presi dent, was that he appointed so many Georgia Democrats to positions in the department. President Wilson appointed Mr. Har ris acting secretary of commerce, in the absence of Secretary Redfield, and cordially approved his services and ef ficiency as a temporary member of the cabinet. Under Republican rule the Wall street gamblers were permitted to keep down the price of cotton by including in the census estimate the number of bales of linters cotton. Mr. Harris had the linters estimate separated from the regular cotton reports, which re duced the estimates and tended to raise the price of cotton. During Re publican rule, it was freely charged that there were “leaks” in cotton esti mates of the census bureau. Not once since the administration of Mr. Harris has there been the slightest suspicion of a “leak” in the census reports.. In the census bureau, Mr. Harris changed the “age limit,” fixed by the Republicans, so that Confederate Vet erans could be given the same oppor tunities as Union Veterans; and many old Confederate Soldiers are now hold ing good places in the department. It was in keeping with his devotion to the old soldiers. His father was a brave Confederate Veteran, and his father-in-law was the gallant “Little Joe” Wheeler. Promoted by the President. I)ue to Mr. Harris’ efficient adminis tration of the census bureau. President Wilson promoted him by appointing him a member of the federal trade board. Recognizing his .ability, his colleagues, two years later, elected him chairman of the board. Resigning to enter his campaign for United States senator as the loyal supporter of Pres ident Wilson in wanning the war, as against the present junior senator from Georgia, Mr. Harris carried with him the love, esteem, confidence and best wishes of his colleagues, the depart ment heads and the President who had further expressed his confidence in Mr. Harris by the following additional ap pointments: (1) Appointed by the President as member of the price fixing committee of the war industries board, to fix prices for army supplies. When New England manufacturers endeavored to fix the price of cotton, Mr. Harris op posed them most vigorously. He also brought charges against the “bagging trust” which is now facing trial. (2) The President named the sec retary of agriculture, Mr. Hoover and Mr. Harris a committee of three to in vestigate the advisability of the gov ernment taking over the meat packing houses. The President’s confidence was further expressed when Mr. Har ris resigned, by the request that he name his own successor, and Mr. Har ris named Hon. Victor Murdoch. The Confidence of Mr. Wilson. Further indicative of the* confidence of President Wilson in Mr. is the following conclusion of the Presi dent’s letter accepting his resignation from the federal trade commission to run for the United States senate: “May I not say how warmly I have appreciated the way in which you have performed the difficult and often deli cate duties assigned to you in the trade commission? I am sure that I am expressing the general feeling when I express my regret at youj withdrawal. “Cordially and sincerely yours, “WOODROW WILSON. “Hon. William J. Harris, “Federal Trade Commission.” Mr. Harris’ Qualifications. Mr. Harris is in close touch with conditions at the national capitol. His relations with the administration are intimate. He has the confidence and esteem of the President and depart ment heads. Through these relations lie is in better position to represent Georgia in the United States senate — her people, her commercial, financial and agricultural interests and to ren der effective aid and service to Geor gia soldier and sailor boys, fighting for Americanism and Democracy,— than probably any other Georgian now in the public eye. Mr. Harris’ elec tion will mean that the good name of Georgia will be redeemed from the charge of disloyalty and “kaieerism” with which it has been stained by the misrepresentation of the recent past. HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH, GEORGIA HERE IS MEANING OF LIBERTY BOND Buying It Is Merely Lending Money to Yourseif for a Great Necessity. 11. S. GOVERNMENT MEANS US I - 'Stupendous Amounts Are Needed to Pay for Work and Materials, So Our Old-Time Extravagances Must Be Dropped. By JOHN PALMER GAVIT. One of the good results that will ac crue to the American people from their in the war is a better understanding of the purpose and function of money. Also, they will more fully appreciate their relation to the government and the fact that it is their government—as much theirs as their homes and farms and factories. For purposes of poetry and sentiment it is well enough to talk about “Uncle Sam,” your devotion to him, your will ingness to lend to him by the purchase of bonds, War Savings Certificates and Thrift Stamps, and to give your own life and the lives of your sons on the actual fighting front; but you must not lose sight of the fact that after all, the United States, “Uncle Sam,” U. 5.,” “Our Country,” and so on—whatever poetic phrase we use to represent the nation in its united action and aspi ration —is just US, ourselves in our own proper persons, working and sav ing and applying our joint strength, for ourselves, our children and our chil dren’s children. Too much have we thought of the government, the nation, Uncle Sam, and so on, as something separate from ourselves; something to which we give and lend, eagerly or willingly or grudgingly or under compulsion, as the case may be. We have had too little of the practice of team work for a great common purpose—our own pur pose. The Liberty Bond campaigns fur nish occasion for reminding ourselves that it is our country, ourselves in our organized capacity, that is engaged in the war to abolish autocracy; that “Uncle Sam” is us, in common de termination to do and give all of our selves to an enterprise as thoroughly worth while as the American Revolu tion or the war to preserve the Union and free the slaves. And one of the ways in which we can participate di rectly and actively in this enterprise is to turn our money—all of it that is not absolutely and honestly necessary to the essential purposes of living and keeping well and efficient for the other things we have to do to help along the enterprise—over to ourselves in our organized capacity; that is, /to the government, for the work of the war which it is conducting for us. Money Useful Only for Exchange. Money is nothing in itself —just pa per and metal. It is useless unless somebody else will accept it in ex change for something he has or some thing he can do. The measure of its value to you is the other fellow’s need of the materials or the labor which it will in turn command for him. Spend ing money is the way we have of get ting from other people the things they have or the work they can do —“Goods and Services.” Our responsibility, therefore, lies in the question of the kind of things for which we choose to exchange money, and the time and circumstances in which we exert that choice. Now, we have been a very wasteful and extravagant people; w T e have not thought much about the effect upon ourselves and other people and upon the nation ns a whole, of the ways in which we spent our money, or the time and circumstances in which we spent it. But the war is compelling us to think about that. Not even the great est nation, or the most powerful gov ernment, or the shrewdest financiers can make something out of nothing. And when war, the most ravenous kind of waste and extravagance that man kind has devised, comes along to take workers out of industry and off the farms, and to turn them frqm produc tion to high-power consumption and destruction —no mntter if the ultimate purpose of the war be quite worth its cost in life and property—there simply are not material and labor enough in the country to permit both the contin uance of the old kinds of expenditure and the taking on of the netv. Why We Must Do Without. For the purposes of the war the government of the United States must have stupendous amounts of materials and work, and there is not enough of these to give the government what it must have and at the same time allow the people generally to have as much material and work for their private uses as they have in ordinary times. Therefore we must to the greatest possible extent keep out of the market for materials and labor, so as (1) to keep from making other folks sell us things and work for us instead of for the government, and so that (2) the things and the work that would be put into products and efforts for our per sonal use and enjoyment shall be com pelled to turn to the kinds of prod ucts and work that the government must have to win the war. Every dol lar, every cent, that we spend for something that we could go without competes in the market with the gov ernment, and by just so much impedes the big cause. Even if we saved the money and buried it in the back yard we should be helping the government. But there is a better thing to do with It. The government must have money, in im mense amounts, in order to buy ma terials and work. And we are asked to lend it to the government for that purpose, in addition to what we pay as taxes. Bonds Are More Than Receipts. The Liberty bonds are the receipts which the government gives us for this loan. But they are more than re ceipts; we get receipts for the taxes. A Liberty bond is not only the gov ernment’s acknowledgement that you have loaned the money; it is its prom ise to pay it back upon a certain day, and to pay you in the meanwhile, at certain intervals, for the use of the money. All of the resources of the country in materials and the labor of the people—our own good faith to ward each other, our permanence as a civilized nation, —are pledged to the payment of principal and interest in strict accordance with the terms of the transaction as printed on each bond. There is not a safer or more valuable piece of paper in the world. When this war is over there will be only tw'o kinds of folks in the United States —those who did all they could and gave all they could, and those who didn’t. Among those who didn’t will be the ones who tried to keep on using and enjoying things and the work of other people, as they used to do; those who failed to do their utmost in the way of really useful work, and those who demanded for themselves unnec essary things and labor which might have been used for the purposes of the government in winning the war. All You Can, Is the Measure. Every man knows in his heart what he can do and whether he is doing it. He may be able to deceive the govern ment ; by loud-mouthed professions of patriotism, saluting the flag, cheering at meetings, and other noisy and con spicuous displays he may deceive his neighbors; but he cannot fool himself. He knows whether he has done all he could! And “all he could”—honestly, oh the level, every man the judge of his own effort in the squarest kind of dealing with his own soul in a kind of Judgment day —that is the measure. He is a poor creature who thinks of the Liberty bond solely as an invest ment —a grudging gift to his country, with a string on it. But no one need be ashamed to lend to the govern ment. Uncle Sam will take what he needs without money return, in the form of taxes, and we shall pay In will ingly, cheerfully. We are doing a work for the future —the world will be cleaner and better to live in for all time by reason of what we are doing now; therefore it is light that a part of this burden should be met by those who will come after us and reap the long-time benefits. In the finest spirit our young men are going to the battle front to offer their utmost, their very flesh and blood, in unutterable toil and agony, in doing what must be done there. They hope to come back, but they are will ing to die there if that must be. And thousands of our best are doing just that. In like unswerving spirit we who stay at home must do our part—going without things and making those we have serve to the utmost —and through this furnishing to the gov ernment —your government —which is taking care of our boys, the means to get the enormous amounts of materials and labor needed to take care of them and to equip them for what they have to do. This is the meaning of the Liberty bond. Uncle Sam Turns Tightwad. The money which you are lending Uncle Sam by purchasing Liberty Bonds, and with which he in turn pur chases foodstuffs for the boys in khaki, goes much farther than one at first realizes. Formerly all scrapings from plates and all refuse from camp kitch ens was burned. The old order has changed. Garbage waste is now sepa rated into various classes such as bread, raw fats and meats, cooked meat, cooked grease, bones and other garbage. These materials are weighed after each meal, and a statement of the weights forwarded to the conservation and reclamation officer in each camp. In this way, the army has an absolute check on wastes of unit kitchens which enables it to prevent over-ration ing and individual wastage. The gar bage from these separations is turned over to reduction plants, which in turn utilize these wastes for the man ufacture of nitro-gljxerin and for fer tilizers. A CHILD GETS SICK CROSS, FEVERISH IF CONSTIPATED LOOK AT TONGUE! THEN GIVE FRUIT LAXATIVE FOR STOM ACH, LIVER, BOWELS. “CALIFORNIA SYRUP OF FIGS’* CAN'T HARM CHILDREN AND THEY LOVE IT. Mother! Your child isn’t naturallj cross and peevish. See if tongue k coated; this is a sure sign the littld stomach, liver and bowels need a cleansing at once. When listless, pale, feverish, full of cold, breath bad, throat sore, doesn’t eat, sleep or act naturally, has stom ach-ache, diarrhoea, remember, a gen tle liver and bowel cleansing should always be the first treatment given. Nothing equals “California Syrup of Figs” for children’s ills; give a tea spoonful, and in a few hours all the foul waste, sour bile and fermenting food which is clogged in the bow’els passes out of the system, and you have a well and playful child again. All children love this harmless, deli cious “fruit laxative,” and it never fails to effect a good “inside" cleans ing. Directions for babies, children of all ages and grown-ups are plainly on the bottle. Keep it handy in your home. A little given today saves a sick child tomor row, but get the genuine. Ask your druggist for a bottle of “California Syrup of Figs,” then see that it is made by the “California Fig Syrup Company.”—Adv. Measure Socks With a Ruler. 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