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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1918)
U. S. KEEPS TAB ON 7,000 SHIPS Every Six Minutes a Merchant Vessel Moves at an American Port. TRAFFIC CHARTS ARE USED Every Minute of Time and Pound of Cargo Noted and Thus Each Ves sel Is Used to Utmost to Speed War Plan. Washington.— Every six minutes a merchant vessel arrives and another departs from Amercan ports. From north Atlantic seaports there is a departure every eleven minutes —one for Europe every forty minutes. This rate of operation does not include ves sels in the service of the army or navy. The merchant fleet of 1,500 ships under the control of the United States shipping board is run as a railroad, on a time schedule. The duty of measur ing ships’ performances, with their tasks, is lodged with the planning and statistics division of the. shipping board, headed by E. H. Gay, formerly dean of the Harvard Graduate School' of business. Obviously the division must know the tasks in detail, and so it co-ordi nates with the war industries and war trade boards in determining and pro viding for the country’s needs from abroad. It works on month to month schedules, or as far in advance as it is feasible or possible to forecast. Works With All Departments. In planning the use of ships the di* vision works with the food administra tion in determining the shipping re quirements for food; with the war de partment in correlating shipping with the requirements of the line of sup plies for the western front; with the war industries board in seeking solu tion of the problem of bringing neces sary raw imports into the country, and with the war trade board in preparing AID TO REDFIELD In appointing a woman to become his private secretary William C. Redfield, secretary of commerce, has set a prec edent. Mrs. A. C. Stewart of Port Richmond, N. I\, Is the first woman thus honored. Mrs. Stewart was Mr. Redfield’s confidential clerk for a num ber of years. TOO GOOD FOR THIS EDITOR Chinese Newspaper Man Returns Di vine Manuscript With Great est Sorrow. London. —A correspondent of the Daily News forwards to the editor the following Chinese method of re fusing a contribution which has been received from a Peking journal; “We have rea<V thy manuscript with infinite delight Never before have we revelled in such a masterpiece. If we printed it the authorities would ordain us to take it as a model, and hence forth never to print anything inferior to it. As it would be impossible to find its equal within 10.000 years we are compelled, though shaken with sorrow, to return your divine MS., and for doing so we ask of thee a t*.*.„• sand pardons.” Romance in the Trenches. Clinton, la—A “romance of the trenches” in France was revealed in a letter received recently by a Clinton woman from a cousin with the.Ameri ca’'. expeditionary forces. The cousin. the lists of essential imports and ex ports. As the country has gone more and more on a war basis, it has been re garded necessary to limit the list of essential Imports to less than 100. Data on the ships and their trade pro vide the basis for operation of the vessels under the shipping board’s con trol. Likewise records are kept of neutral vessels coming to this coun try or linking up with its foreign trade. Thus the division checks daily about 7,000 vessels, 1,500 of them being those of the shipping board, 3,000 engaged directly in American commerce and 2,500 scattered over the globe and trading for the most part with the al lies or their colonies. Roughly, one fourth of the merchant ships of the world are watched by the shipping board. Ship performances against tasks are recorded by “progress charts,” which show at a glance what the vessels have to do and how they are doing it. Each set of charts is divided into ten di- YANKEES VISITING IN BATH, ENGLAND Wherever American troops set foot on English soil today nothing but kind words and all the comforts of home greet them. Patriotic-minded Eng lish men and women arrange excursions and celebrations for them; in fact, everything possible is done to make them feel as if they were back home. This picture shows some Yankees inspecting the old Roman baths at Bath, England, near which city they are stationed. U. S. WILL ENROLL ALL DOCTORS Washington.—Dr. Franklin Martin, i chairman of tlie general medical| board of the council of national defense, ex plains the scope and function of the volunteer medical service corps, in which it is proposed to enroll every legally qualified physician in the j country, including women, without rel -1 erence to age or physical disability. “It is a method of recording all phy sicians who are not yet in service and of classifying them so that -their serv : ices when required will be utilized in a manner to inflict as little hardship on the individual as possible,” Doctor Martin writes. “It is a method by J which every physician not in uniform will be entitled to wear an insignia ; which will indicate his willingness to i serve his government. “The object of the corps is to place on record all medical men in the Unit ed States; to aid the army, navy and | p&lilic health service in supplying war [ needs; to provide the best civilian serv- Daniel Livingstone, ten years ago, when he was fourteen years old, then a resident of Cedar Rapids, while in Davenport on a vacation visit saved a girl from drowning in the Mississippi river.. He had never seen the girl be fore nor since until, as he wrote his cousin here, he met her near the firing line in France. She is a Red Cross nurse. He did not reveal whether or not a sequel is to be expected. Dump Kaiser in Basin. Boston. —Students of the Massachu setts Institute of Technology nailed an effigy of the kaiser in a specially prepared coffin and afterwards threw the coffin, kaiser and all into the Charles river basin. The ceremonies were preceded by a funeral march and a dirge. Kidd, 106, Works on Farm. Bellaire, O. —William Kidd, one hundred and six, is assisting in the farm work on the Charles Rosser farm and is doing a real day’s work every day. Kidd was born during the War of 1812 and served In the Confederate *rmy during the Civil war. HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY. MoDONOUGH. GEORGIA visions —one each for movements of vessels, turn-arounds, ships’ charts of commodities, individual commodity charts, summary of imports, individual trades, summary of trades, ship charts of exports, performances in ports and dock performances. Copies are dis tributed every ten days to govern ments which require constant informa tion about the movement of supplies. By these movement charts any In formation regarding locations and movements of vessels is accessible, and from past performances one may forecast the time of future voyages. The summary on shipping and trade, prepared every ten days for the war industries and war trade boards and the food administration, helps shape the larger policies underlying the use of American ships in war time. The charts tell whether the ships allocated to a certain trade are enough, too many or too few; whether they bring in too little or too much; whether they are on time, ahead of time- or behind time, and whether the trade movement is too slow, too fast or just right. The charts also serve to guide the ship control committee in the as signment of vessels to various trades. By comparing import requirements against deliveries the charts show when vessels may be transferred from one trade to another or released to the army. ice possible; to give recognition to all who record themselves. “Civilian service will be supplied under a fixed plan. Every one in the corps will receive proper credit for service rendered, and ample medical attention will be assured for all re quiring it. There will be four tenta tive classes, consisting of fit-to-flght men under forty, reserves under fifty five ; home forces over fifty-five, and ineligibles. Reserves inay be called on occasion for army, navy, public health and civilian service, the home forces being those able to perforin only civilian service.” Service of members of the corps will be called and rendered in response to requests from the central governing board, in which the management of the corps will be vested. State boards will appoint executive committees to re ceive applications for enrollment in the corps and will make recommenda tions concerning them to the central governing board. “HAIL, HAIL;’ greets YANKEES IN FRANCE Gary, Ind.—“ Hail, hail, the gang’s all here!” Thousands of the 1918 edition American tourists who are daily arriving “somewhere in France” look up, joy in their faces and a warm glow in their hearts, as groups of little French kiddies sing this hbme'y refr in as they line the gangways. According to ? letter received here recently early arrivals of the American expeditionary forces have taught this greeting to the children, who pass it on as each new contingent arrives. “Hail, hail, the gang’s all here!” The remarkable intelligence of the horse is shown by the rapidity with which the animal learns the signifi cance of the bugle calls In the cavalry service. Newsy Paragraphs Of State Interest Atlanta. —Capt. Charles Famel, in charge of the army recruiting service for Georgia, with headquarters in the postoffice building, has received or ders to close the recruiting office and ’will proceed to do so at once. No enlistments have been received for some time in the army and the orders were expected. Amerieus. —A land sale of interest was consummated here when R. D. Moore, a prominent planter of Walker county, Georgia, bought from J. L. Lewis a fine tract of 880 acres in Myrtle Springs neighborhood, fifteen miles west of Amerieus. He paid a lit tle more than S3O an acre, and it is announced will make his home here. Atlanta. —While talking with two of his comrades about the world series, when they were among the crowd viewing the scoreboard from the Peachtree viaduct, Sergt. Maj. George A. Mayer, formerly in charge of the local army recruiting station at Five Points, fell unoonscious in the street and died a few minutes later before he could be given medical assistance. Atlanta. —Dr. George Brown, the well known Atlanta specialist, has been appointed by the gas defense di vision of the chemical warfare service of the United Statese army, to dissem inate information in Atlanta concern ing the collection of certain materials needed by the government in the man ufacture of the particular kind of charcoal used in gas respirators. These materials are as follows: Peach seeds, apricot seedsfi prune seeds, olive seeds, date seeds, cherry seeds, Brazil nut shells, English walnut shells, black walnut shells. It is urged that all of the above seeds be saved and the Red Cross authorities will announce just what disposition is to be made of them. Atlanta. —During the month of Au gust, 1918, the internal revenue offi cers in the state of Georgia destroy ed 201 moonshine stills; secured suf ficient evidence against 187 of the op erators to warrant prosecution; made 40 arrests of persons working in the said distilleries and captured four au tomobiles, a team of mules and a wag on. ’ The revenue officers state that two years ago the number of real bad moonshine districts in Georgia was less than a dozen, but since the enact ment of the bone-dry law, and the ex tremely high price of moonshine whiskey, illicit distillation has spread all over the state until there is hardly a county that is not infested more or less with operators of moonshine stills. Atlanta. —The selective service office for Georgia announced the list of of ficial estimates of men who will reg ister for service in the army on Sep tember 12, when all men who have reached their eighteenth birthday and who are not yet 46, jgo to the polls to put themselves at the disposal of Un cle Sam. According to these estimates, Georgia will register 309,460 men, and Atlanta will send to the polls nearly thirty thousand of this number. A number of the local exemption board officials have already made all their necessary arrangements for the day and have officially notified tlie military department that they are ready. Maj. Joel B. Mallet, in charge of the se lective service for Georgia, stated that he had already received advices from a number of counties throughout the state to the effect that their organiza tion for the big job on September 12 was already completed and that every thing is in readiness for the da}. Atlanta. —Urging as a war measure the construction of a barge canal across the Florida peninsula, a com mittee of Georgia officials, headed by Gov. Hugh M. Dorsey, presented a plan to President Wilson. The proposed canal runs from St. Marys, Fla., to St. Marys, Ga., using the St. Marys river and the Suwanee river as part of the route. The pro ject was indorsed by representatives of a number of Southern states who met this summer to discuss it. The total length of the canal would be 216 miles, of which 100 miles would be new construction. The construc tion of this canal would enable opera tors in the Illinois coal fields to barge coal down the Mississippi river to New Orleans and across the existing inter-coastal canal to St. Marks, when it could be taken along the proposed new canal to St. Marys on the At lantic coast, where it would be availa ble for supplying steamships. Ala bama coal fields also could utilize this new project in getting their coal to the Atlantic coast, the Alabama fields be ing connected by water with St. Ma rys. The proposed canal also offers opportunity to coton growers in south ern Georgia and northern Florida to send their cotton at a low water rate to New Orleans. The committee poined out that an immense saving of transportation costs could be effect ed by the construction of this canal, and the railroads would be relieved to a great extent. YOUR SICK CHILD IS CONSTIPATED! LOOK AT TONGUE HURRY, MOTHER! REMOVE POI SONS FROM LITTLE STOMACH, LIVER, BOWELS. GIVE “CALIFORNIA SYRUP OF FIGS" IF CROSS, BILIOUS OR FEVERISH. No matter what nils your child, a gentle, thorough laxative should al ways he the first treatment given. If your little one is out of sorts, half-sick, isn’t resting, eating and act ing naturally—look, Mother! see if tongue is coated. This is a sure sign that the little stomach, liver and bow els are clogged with waste. When cross, irritable, feverish, stomach sour, breath bad or has stomach-ache, diar rhea, sore throat, full of cold, give a teaspoonful of “California Syrup of Figs,” and in a few hours all the con stipated poison, undigested food and sour bile gently moves out of the lit tle bowels without griping, and you lwive a well, playful child again. Mothers can rest easy after giving this harmless “fruit laxative,” because it never fails to cleanse the little one’s liver and bowels and sweeten the stom ach and they dearly love its pleasant taste. Full directions for babies, chil dren of all ages and for grown-ups printed on each bottle. Beware of counterfeit fig syrups. Ask your druggist for a bottle of “Cal ifornia Syrup of Figs;” then see that it is made by the “California Fig Syrup Company."—Adv. MADE MARCHING MEN SMILE Appeal of Groups of Parisian Midi nettes Got Desired Results From Passing British Soldiers. The Paris Figaro recounts the fol lowing picturesque episode at a review recently, which admirably expressed the enthusiastic admiration of the Parisian crowd for the British sol diers. The latter marched past, stern and impassive. Groups of nddinettes observed that the soldiers were not smiling. “Smile, please, smile,” they cried in French. The men did not falter, but continued to march, grave and meditative, because They did not understand. “Cry ‘Smile’ to them,” a linguist in the crowd suggested, whereupon the group of mldinettes cried in English, “Smile, please, smile.” And then the British smiled, to the great delight of the girls. L’Oeuvre writes: “We may say with out hesitation, because we know we shall lie understood by our incompar able Poilus, that it was the British troops, and especially the Scotch, who produced The greatest Impression.” Btate of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas County—ss. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he Is senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney A Co., doing business In the City of To ledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said 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. CSeal) A. W. Gleason, Notary Public. HALL’S CATARRH MEDICINE is tak en Internally and acts through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. Druggists, 7oc. Testimonials free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. 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