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WILLIAM J. HARRIS
Candidate for the
United States Senate
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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
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'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.
A ruler and not a tape measure
should be used in determining the
length of socks knitted to Red Cross
requirements.
Feet must be from 11 to llty inches
long. Socks should not be larger than
standard in one place and smaller than
standard in another. However, socks
that are w r ell proportioned are accept
ed, if they are slightly over or slightly
under standard.
Stat© of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas
County—ss.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he la
senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney
& Co., doing business In the City of To
ledo, County and State aforesaid, and that
raid firm will pay the sum of ONE HUN
DRED DOLLARS for any case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by the use of
HALL’S CATARRH MEDICINE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In
my presence, this 6th day of December,
A. D. 1886.
(Seal) A. W. Gleason, Notary Public.
HALL’S CATARRH MEDICINE Is tak
en Internally and acts through the Blood
ob the Mucous Surfaces of the System.
Druggists, 75c. Testimonials free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Washington police force is to be
filled from the limited service depart
ment of the National army.
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