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enforcing the
PROHIBITION LAW.
Editor Schuler Makes Some Very
Caustic Remarks Concerning
State Prohibition.
Tlie adherents of the “licker” cause
have proven to be false prophets.
Numbers of them remarked, while
the campaign was on to rid the state
„f saloons, that if the effort succeed¬
ed Georgia would be financially doom¬
ed— “ruined forever.”
“Why,” said some of their most
agressive leaders, “within 12 months,
if the saloons go the streets of our
principal cities will grow up in grass,
wages will be cut to almost nothing,
and our busiest cities will present the
appearance of deserted villages.”
As time has proven, they sounded a
false alarm. Notwithstanding the
panic, which was national in its
scope', all business” lines of business, has been except good. the
“linker
Take Atlanta, the business center of
our state for example.
Real estate is selling in Atlanta fer
*85.00 a square foot, and the records
show the same amount sold in 1908 as
in 1907.
The building permits issued for Jan.
1909 are more than ever issued for
any previous January.
And all of this despite the fact that
the saloon is no more.
Bank clearings have increased. For
the second week in Feb. 1909 they
were $5,414,392.27, a gain of $1,026,
976.99, over the same week in Feb.
last year.
Gross postal receipts show quite an
increase, while in numbers of southern
cities that have the saloon there is a
falling off.
And another thing; the officers of
the law in Atlanta and other cities
tell us that there has been less suffer¬
ing among the poor and fewer de
i niands made upon charity under the
reign of prohibition than under the
damning influences of the saloon.
These facts and figures clinch the
[eternal truth that it pays to do right
because it is right; that it pays to
1 enact and support good and whole¬
some laws, and that “righteousness
iexalteth a nation.”
But there’s the fellow who says,
“Oh, I’m in favor of prohibition, but
he trouble is it won’t prohibit.”
Well, my brother, you go to Atlanta
mkI talk to some of those fellows
vhom Judge Broyles sends to the
tockade without an opportunity to
jay a fine and ask them if prohibition
rohibits. Write ex-May or Brand of
.awrenceville if the Southern Express
’o., continued, while he was mayor
f the town, to dump its whiskey off
n Lawrenceville, or did prohibition
rohibit Which?
The defect’s not so much in the law
s in the folks who should enforce
nd obey the law.
We want men, policemen, mayors
nd judges who are fearless and brave
nd then prohibition will prohibit
borne.”
We want preachers, deacons, stew
rds, and Christians with backbone
nd religion, then prohibition will
rohibit, blind tigers will go, and our
ildren will not have to suffer the
moralizing effects of the dirty work
these scoundrels.
'the church people of any commun
y can usually have things their way.
ie trouble is, and has been all the
bile, too many of them are just
iristians in name. Down in their
art too many of them are in svm
thy with the “licker”
, Men love darkness rather than
>t because their deeds are evil.”
a rule church members are in¬
herent iskey to the extermination of the
evil for both, or one of two
’sons: They love the “licker” or
“ v love the almighty dollar that in
ne wa y fche y hope to get into their
-session as a result of having the
ff sold.
111 an °ther fellow hops up and says
:
am a prohibitionist alright—you
.'our bottom dollar on that—but
-but there is just as much
’cr shipped here as there
was
° r< the saloon was voted out,
rt,u| e, I am not for state prohibi
want National.”
1 first place there is
0h whi8ke not as
y bought by the people
Georgia under the prohibition law
"'I 10 1 "' !ac An ts y in man the in position to
j- case will tell
la hi the next place if
a | y °PPosed you
to whiskey being
'everything you want can’t
n ,? Xcept trough “state prohi
a S ' l<flcient n «mber of the
give the saloon the go-by, then
S v \ hav e votes
: g ^. enough in the Na-
8la ti to assure National
o pr,)1 'biting shipments
skev ! J mto : n , dry of
IS; iHOn territory.
Waw assumed
is^lreadv upo! y f . 1,r0p0rtion8 ai l^^on that the ef
m Nearly to this
1 seen and keenly
ere in „ iw'f
Teas (if pendin K before the
lation bar whisL the 1) ^. ' Cently mate end d >sP”«ed of which of)
* ' f fr ° m dry territory.
earn '£bty e tidal
eep wave, the on
of prohibition is strung-
NEW INDUSTRIES,
VARIED IN CHARACTER
Corporations Formed Within The
Past Week With Minimum
Of $369,700.00
The Georgia and Alabama Industrial
Index published at Columbus, Ga.,
says in its weekly issue:
“The industrial record in Georgia
and Alabama during the week just
ended was a bright one, and the facts
are interesting not only as showing
the extent of investment in these two
progressive states but also the diversi¬
fied character of the new industries.
The automobile figures rather promi¬
nently in the week’s reports, for at
LaGrange, Ga., a company is being
formed by Georgia capital to manu¬
facture such machines, and in Atlanta
Ga., an architect is drawing plans for a
ten-story automobile building, to be
devoted soley to that industyy, in its
various phases. Citizens at Richland
Ga., organized a $50,000 compress com¬
pany, fertilizer factories are reported
for Athens Ala. Eatonton, Ga., and
Moultrie, Ga.,and Macon, Ga., a $100
000 company is being formed to manu
facture paper from the okra plant.
“The progressive spirit of the Ala¬
bama cities was well illustrated dur¬
ing the week, for Birmingham award¬
ed the contract for the construction of
$230,000 of sewers and Mobile author¬
ized the issuance $320,000 of bonds to
cover extensive paving work in that
city. The United State government
has formally approved the plans for
the new dam to be built north of
Auguste, Ga., on the Savanah river,
and the company in charge of this
enterprise will proceed at once with
its ambitious plans. A dam 60 feet
high, of concrete, is to be built gen¬
erating 28,000 horse-power, and the
total estimated expenditure in con¬
nection with this development is $3
000 , 000 .
During the week 22 new corporations
were formed in the two states, with
minimum capital of $369,700 . New
banks are reported for Altoona, Ala.,
and Lovejoy, Ga., Moultrie, Ga., will
vote on the issuance of $50,000 of bonds
for varioue public improvements, and
smaller bond issues were voted by a
number of cities.”
$100,000 FOR
PRESIDENT KILLED.
Bill Which Has Been Before Con¬
gress to Raise His Salary
Was Killed.
The bill which has been up before
the congress to raise the presidents
and other government employees sal¬
aries was killed by the house of rep¬
resentatives last Friday. The mem¬
bers of the house had their war paint
on and went after them with a
vengeance. All the old party lines
were obliterated in their desire to kill
these bills and they did it up right.
The raise in salaries contained in
the bill were the president, vice-pres¬
ident, speaker, judiciary, and for the
creation of the office of under secre¬
tary and fourth assistant secretary of
state.
The fact that the house has killed
this bill is considered a very wise one
by the people of the entire country
as these officers get a handsome salary
as it is and the treasury already shows
a depleted condition. It is alright to
raise the salaries in cases where they
are not sufficient but we see no neces¬
sity in the amounts asked for in the
original bill.
When the creation of the new offi¬
ces came up for discussion there was
a warm time on the floor when one of
the representatives said that we were
trying to ape the foreign powers by
the office of “under” secretary and
‘ ‘vice’ ’ secretary. These bills brought
up the warmest discussion of the ses¬
sion and while there were a few in
favor of the proposed bill there was a
big majority against it. The vote was
134 to 89.
FOR SALE—Fine Homer Pigeons.
$1.00 per pair —J M. Aaron. tf.
ling the whiskey interests and will
have reached the height of its power
and grandeur w hen it breaks upon the
shore of National prohibition.
“You cannot serve two masters.”
The Christian never seeks middle
ground in choosing between right and
wrong.
As Christians and churches we
should rise up in Jesus’s name and
fight this evil as long as we have
strength to fight, and see to it that
blind tigers in our respective the past, com¬ ;
munities become a thing of
and the prohibition law is enforced as
it should be.
We are proud of the magnificent
showing the Georgia Baptists made in
giving us the prohibition law; and we
have confidence in them and believe
they will be as fearless and aggressive
in enforcing it as in helping to make
it.—Baptist Helper
THE COVINGTON NEWS
NEW YORK MEN
VIEW BIG DAM.
Over Two Hundred Northern Bus¬
iness Men Interested In This
Big Enterprise.
Last Wednesday there were some¬
thing like two hundred nothern capi¬
talist out at Lloyd Schoals, where the
Central Georgia Power Company is
building the biggest dam in the state
and they were all enthusiastic about
the big enterprise. The entire day
was spent in inspecting the work of
the contractors and looking over the
gigantic plans now under way. After
the day was over the crowd joined
President Massey of this company
and after reaching Macon they were
served with a regular old time barbe¬
cue, at which about three hundred
men were present. Among the north¬
ern capitalists of prominence who
were at the big dam were W. W. Fin¬
ley, president Southern Railway,
Richard H. Edmunds, editor Manu¬
facturers’ Record, and a number of
other men prominent in financial cir¬
cles. They are all of the opinion that
this is the biggest enterprise in the
state today.
The dam, at completion, will be
more than 1,400 feet long, and in the
bed of the river will stand 100 feet
high. The horse power accomplished
in the big plant’s construction will be
18,000. This undertaking represents
the investment of $2,500,000, and will
mean the giving to the central por¬
tion of the state a vast amount of en¬
ergy that will be utilized in many
towns and both Macon and Atlanta.
Few people who have not seen the
work there have any idea of the gi¬
gantic enterprise that is going up.
SIZES OF BOOKS.
Meaning of the Terms Folio, Quarto,
Octavo and Duodecimo.
The words “folio.” “quarto,” “octa¬
vo,” “duodecimo” and the like have
almost, if not quite, lost their original
meaning. At first they ||d reference
only to the number of loaves into
which the sheets used in making the
book were folded. Thus if these
sheets were folded once the book was
called a folio; if the sheets were fold¬
ed twice, so "as to form four leaves,
the book was called a quarto; if they
were folded four times, so as to form
eight leaves, the book was called an
octavo, and so on.
The duodecimo, or 12mo, is au ir¬
regular size. To make it the sheet
must be folded so as to form twelve
leaves. Fold one-third of the width
of a sheet lengthwise on itself. Next
fold the paper across Its breadth In
the center. Next fold the sheet across
its length—that Is, fold the two leaves
on the four. Finally fold it again
across and in such shape that it may
easily be sewed in with others to form
a book.
But though, strictly and historically,
quarto, octavo, etc., have reference
solely to the manner of folding the
sheet, they are, as a matter of com¬
mon practice, used to specify the sizes
of books.
If the sheets on which books are
printed were of uniform size a quarto
page would be as unvarying an area
as a square foot or an acre, and be¬
fore the invention of machines for
making paper there was such uni¬
formity to be found in the sizes of
sheets.
But when paper making machines
were introduced and the use of molds
was abandoned sheets came to be
made of all dimensions. As a result
quartos and octavos had all sorts of
dimensions, and the terms, when used
strictly to indicate how the sheet was
folded, became worthless as designa¬
tions of size. The use of the old
terms was nevertheless not abandon¬
ed, but instead they were first used
to indicate a rather wide range of
sizes and finally were attached to cer¬
tain more definite sizes, without refer¬
ence to the method of foldiug.
The practice of the publisher now¬
adays is first to determine what size
of page he wants. The sheet he uses
will be large or small, according to the
capacity of the press at his disposal.
On that sheet he may print, say, eight
octavo pages, or he may print thirty
two, but he will call the book an oc¬
tavo, though by its folding it should
be called either a quarto or a lfimo.
In other words, the publisher calls
his hook by the name of that one of
the old sizes to which it happens to
come nearest.
The confusion resulting from the
changes noticed here has not passed
away yet, hut efforts have been made
to give definiteness to the old words.— ,
New York Tribune.
Whistling on Sabbath In Scotland.
Concerning the Scottish reprobation
of whistling on the Sabbath Dean
Ramsay lias a characteristic story. A
famous Glasgow artist met an old
highland acquaintance unexpectedly.
“Donald, what brought you here?"
“Ou, weel, sir, it was a baad place
yon; they were baad folk, but they’re
a God fearin’ set o’ folk here." “Well.
Donald, I’m glad to hear it.” “Ou. aye,
sir, 'deed are they, an' I’ll gie ye an
Instance o’t. Last Sabbath Just ns the
kirk was skailin’ there was a drover
chield frae Dumfries cornin’ along the
road wbislin’ an’ lookin' as happy as if
it was ta middle o’ the week. Weel.
sir, oor laads is a God fearin' set o
laads, an’ they were just cornin’ oot
o’ the kirk—o’d they yckit upon him
»n’ a’most killed him!"
New Lines at Lee Bros. m
\Y e have added to our lines of standard made goods,
several of the most popular brands in the country.
This is especially so with
Boyden’s Shoes and
Henry Sonneborn’s Clothing
There is no other brands of shoes and clothing “just
as good/' as these and the new styles and shapes of
the Boyden Shoes are well worth your while to call
and see. We have them in all the leathers and styles
and can fit you up to the notch, both in quality and
price. Come around to our place and look through
our line of Men’s Wear and Ladies Goods.
You will also find here a full line of beautiful Silks
and Ladies Low Quarter Shoes. They are right up
to the minute and the prices are just as low as they
can possibly he sold.
Our line of Hats for Men is the prettiest we have had
LEE BROTHERS
Almon News
Mrs. J. W. Ellis, spent last Sunday
with friends at Mt. Zion.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Rice, of Haw
kinsville, spent last Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. D. F. Rice.
Mrs. E. P. Hammons, spent Thurs¬
day with Mrs. J. W. Ellis.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Smith, of Fair
view, spent last Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. D. F. Rice.
Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Rice, spent last
Thursday night with Mr. and G. H.
Rice.
Mrs. W. S. Ramey, spent last Sat
urday afternoon with Mrs. T. L.
Dobbs.
Mr. Jessie Yancey spent last Sun- j
day with Mr. and Mrs. P. L Sndduth. I
(Last week’s letter.)
FOR SALE—7 room cottage, near j
public school building, good well wa- j
ter and fine garden. Will sell at a
bargain if sold at once. This is one
of the best built and most convenient
cottages in the city. An aeceptional
opportunity for a home seeker. Apply
L. L. Flowers, The News office.
—WANTED Each week, one thous¬
and dozen eggs, for which we will pay
cash money—The Harrison Co.
Read the advertisements in The
and trade with home merchants.
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