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STRONGJFOR WILSON
IN STRONG LETTER HE GIVES
MANY SOUND REASONS FOR
RE-ELECTION OF OUR
PRESIDENT.
Wo want Wilson in the White House
four years more.
With foes without the party and foes
within, the Democrats of Am erica are
lighting the greatest political battle in
American history.
The Germans with few exceptions,
the Wall Street goldbugs and Pluto
crats, and some who call themselves
Democrats, are !>ent on defeating the
greatest Democratic President America
has had since Washington.
If the Republicans win, great well
be our loss and the country’s.
We must do what we can to avert
such a disastter.
A square deal, for which Georgians
are noted, entitles President Wilson
to endorsement at our hands and re
election.
The Democratic Party has proven a
Party of achievements under his wise
leadership—as follows, viz:
(A) America is the one great Xa
tion in all the world where peace pre¬
vails, due to our President’s Christian
character, long-suffering forbearance
and unusual sagacity, and where pros¬
perity abounds, due to America hav
iug been kept out of war.
(B) No American boys have been
slaughtered on the battle-field. Nc
women have had to suffer the loss ol
husband, father or son.
(C) The Federal Reserve System—
three Banks in the South—and one in
Georgia—that will make destroying
panics a thing of the past
(I)) The Child Law that protects
our children and makes for better citi¬
zenship.
(E) The Harrison Law to protect
and save narcotic fiends.
(F) The Farmers’ Land Bank where
farmers can get money on their laud
at low interest and long time payments
lOi The Isi’ifi Commission that
makes of this great issue no longer a
party matter.
(Tl 1 The Good Roads Law.
(I) The Eight Hour I^aw that made
a strike unneceesary, and thereby sa*
et* ti e people of America untold suffer¬
ing and Pss, and made our cotton sol!
for S.*0 to $25 per bale more than il
would have sold for if the strike hud
lakcn fiRie.
(J) ’the recognition of the Soutq in
the councils of the Nation wherefore
the Party is attacked by the Repub
liean candidate, who says Southerners
are now too eonspicious in authority.
All those and more make us exclaim,
we waut Wilson in the White House
for years more.
Will you help with a contribution to
the Campaign Fund?
If so, send promptly to the under
signed.
GEORGIA DEMOCRATIC FINANCE
COMMITTEE,
By JNO I>. WALKER, Chairman.
AMERICA'S MARVELOS GAINS
UNDER WOODROW WILSON
(By E. L. MARTIN.)
The advance of the country, in pro¬
gress and prosperity under Wilson’s
administration, reaches such stupen¬
dous figures, that under the human
mind Is almost staggering in its effort
at their comprehension; and when we
come to compare them with the One
Hundred and Fifty Billion Dollars
debt, already Incurred by the
of Europe in their World War, and
which is mounting daily, it seems that
no rational man could cast a
against Woodrow Wilson.
Authenic statistics recently
piled, show the following GAINS
the United States in the last
years, towit.
National
National Bank
Total Bank Deposits....
Foreign Commerce......2.253,000
Exports ...............
Imi*orts ...............
Trade Balance in favor of
United States.........
Agricultural Exports....
Manufactured Exports .. 1
Gross R. R. Revenue____ 760.000
Net R. R. Revenue......
Value Crops &. Live Stock,
Farm I>ands............
Wages Paid in Manufac¬
tures ................ 1,560
Capital Employed in Mfg.
Value Mandfaetured Pro-
@1 )t Cjwiiigton
LIQUOR DEALERS RESIN
TO FEARTHE CHURCHES
Mrs. Travis Points Out The:'r Great
Concern For the Spiritual condi¬
tion of Our People.
The liquor dealers are very anxious
to show that the prohibition of their
traffic is very unchristian, and that
church people are out of their province
in demanding it.
From a circular recently sent out bj
the Liquor Dealers’ Association ol
America we extract the following:
“For many centuries the Christian
Churches have held that the way to
reform society was through spiritual
influences to reform the individual.
They believed and taught that only
through moral regeneration of each
man and woman could the Christian
ideal he attained.
“The churches that have taken up the
prohibition agitation have widely de¬
parted from these teachings, They wish
to substitute restrictive laws for the
moral law within and to use the
policeman’s club as an agency for mak
ing good men out of sinners. They
are satisfied with the gospel of uni¬
versal love, but ask for the aid of the
national Government in applying laws
that will compel mankind to live ac¬
cording to the total abstience views of
twenty per cent of the people.” This
is a sad situation. The pious liquor
dealers always so zealous for the pur
Lty < i the church, the law of brotherly
love, and the reformation of men, are
evidently distressed beyond measure
that the church lias so far departed
from its high mission. A prophet be¬
ing needed to set the Christian world
tralght on this matter, the brewers
and bar-tenders stop heroically into the
breach.”
With loud lamentations sprinkling
ashes on their heads, and rending their
beer-soaked aprons,they call the church
beer-soaked aprons, they call the
Church back to its legitimate function
>f picking an occasional drunkard
from the gutter, and then licensing Yhe
corner saloon to make a hundred more.
Now we would inform these advisers
that the church still holds that the
way to reform society is though spirit
ual influences to reform individuals
Is that the business these liquor deal¬
ers have been engaged in? The church
also holds that any man who is so un¬
christian as to aid, or give his consent
to the man-killing, home-recking, God
defying liquor traffic is sadly in need
if reformation, and that it is the busi¬
ness of the churche to tiring spiritual
nfluences upon him to have him with
draw his consent from the
business, and as a citizen enter
earnest protest against it.
But if these fail, and the dealer
-o hard-hearted, so full of greed,
-to Indifferent to the temporal _
Vernal welfare of men that he
-ell them that which would result
heir ruin, then it is the duty of
•itizens to pass and enforce
'aws that would prevent It.
MRS. A. M. TRAVIS, Press Supt.
MR. L. F. BOGU S WINS MANY
PRIZES AT ATLANTA
Mr. R. W. Roggus on Monday
ed ns his son, Mr. I,. F. Boggus’s,
Buff Orpingtons which won for
$18.00 in cash prizes at the
ern Fair in Atlanta.
He won first and second prizes
his young rooster, one first and
third prize for his hens, first and
ond prizes for two pullets, and
prize for his pen.
Mr. Iloggus began to show
in chickens from childhood and all
money he could get he would
for chickens. He said he
-pending that way to buying trifles
the store.
Newton county is proud of
voung man who has brought credit
us with his chickens.
duets ..................
Meanwhile the deht of the
United States to Euroi>e
shows a decrease of.,
Less than eight pier cent of the
tal exports during this time have
war munitions.
Thpse figures prove the country
he infinitely more prosperous
if has ever been under any previous
ministration. and more prosperous
day than any other nation has
been any time in all the history of
world.
That the voters of this
would displace Woodrow Wilson
«uch circumstances is unthinkable.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, October 26, 1916.
COUNCIL OF WAR WAS
HELD BY STATE W.C.T.U.
Thirty-fourth Annual Convention was Guest
of Waynesboro Last Week. Many At¬
tended and were Royally Entertained.
Hy Frank Reagan, War Correspondent.
Wonderful Waynesboro, wonderful
women, wonderful war. and all In one
wonderful week. It is the triple trlb
ule doubly deserved by the first two
and conservatively descriptive of the
last.
Burke is the banner cotton county
of Georgia and every year raises
fifty thousand b"les or more. It was
the writer’s pleasure to be the guest
of I)r. R. L. Miller in a pleasant au¬
tomobile ride through the city and
some of the tine cotton fields near the
city.
*A visitor is struck at once by the
tall tree-like stalks which else¬
where would indicate all weed and
little fruit. But these stalks are liter¬
ally filled with cotton, and two bales
per acre is almost the average yield
and three is not infrequent.
It is cotton everywhere. So much |
cotton do a number of Waynesboro
citizens either produce or collect that
individual warehouses of considerable j
capacity are seen oi* every hand. It
is cotton everywhere here until the i
visitor sees so much that he almost j
dreams of cotton.
But it is not all cotton. Other 1
things are produced and Burke citi- j
zens literally live ou the fat of the
land.
Rotation is not needed much as the
same land will produce a bumpier crop j
year after year. But many other
crops find acreage to grow in plenty.
Velvet beans are blessing the farmers
here as elsewhere with their abundant
yield.
Dr. Miller was telling us of an ex¬
ample out of many of this kind, a negro
on the former’s place, who this year
will clear ten bales of cotton, after
paying his living and other exjtenses
for this year, and will have syrup,
meat and corn, hay and velvet beans
sufficient for himself and stock to live
on next year.
Indeed the negroes are prosperous
here too, and throughout this section.
It is told of one that he drove his Ford
into a repair shop near here Saturday
afternoon and asked how soon It could
be repaired. The gentleman in charge
said not earlier than Monday.
It was also the sales-agency for one
of the makers of ears selling around
one thousand dollars, and a new one
was on display.
“Is that car for sale,” asked the ne¬
gro, “and will you take me for a ride
and demonstrate how it runs and
rides?"
“Certainly, jump in,” replied the
dealer.
On their return the negro asked the
price, paid it from his pocket roll and,
as he drove away, said:
“I shall send for that Ford when you
have it ready.”
Waynesboro is wonderful in so many
respects that I hardly know how to
particularize or how to quit when I
begin Its praises.
It is a beautiful little city of three
thousand people or more, three-fourths
of them negroes.
But you need not believe that the
sunshine and shadow of the city are
in the same proportion; for it is a city
of light and laughter.
It is threaded by beautiful avenues
many of them paved, and all lined with
tine treets, through which the sunshine
steals, to draw in silhouette its fantas
tie forms fashioned on fence and roof
and street, and even the rain comes
through transformed into spray whose
sprinkle Invigorates one of as he walks
out in it.
The city has its most modern thirty
thousand dollar school biulding. Pro¬
fessor -Tappan, the efficient and geneial
superintendent, accompanied me on n
Journey through the building. Every¬
where were sanitary drinking fount¬
ains, cloak rooms, class rooms, with a
telephone in each, and a beautiful and
spacious auditorium.
But, among mere things, apart from
its people. the glory of Waynesboro Is
its beautiful homes. On every hand
1 you find them, like gems studding a
brooch of green enamel. And in these
homes are housed the hospitable hosts
of this body of noble women.
It was the writer’s pleasure to be a
dinner guest in several of these charm¬
ing homes, whose beauty without grows
as a person goes within and the thrall
of both is perfected by the grace and
generosity of tiost and hostess alike.
Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Milner w r ere our
hosts one evening. Mrs. Miller is the
president ol’ the local union and a visi¬
tor to her home, where he feels the
charm of her beauty of feature and
hearing and being, active to banish the
stranger’s shyness and make him as an
old acquaintance, reveals the secret of
the joy felt by the whole convention
at being in Waynesboro. And the
youthful spirit and informed but
sprightly mind of Dr. Miller makes
complete the home picture.
On another evening Mr. and Mrs. C.
W. Skinner gave the writer the pleas¬
ure of being their guest. This happy
home’s happy hearts were in keeping
with the beauty of their abode.
Mrs. Skinner, always a woman of
rare charm and beauty, is never more
so than when presiding at her own
board and entertaining her friends
there. Her natural and kindly spirit
has won great success in the young
I>eople's work of the union, and Mr.
Skinner though a busy-man always, is
as big hearted as big brained, and is
a co-worker with her in all her plans
and deeds in the cause.
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Chance also re¬
membered the writer with an invita¬
tion to dinner on our last evening in
the city. This charming and gracious
hostess personifies and preserves in
this new day all the beauty and bright¬
ness of the old South, showing that the
daughters perpetuate the glory of the
mothers. Mr. Chance proves himself
a gentleman of the same school in his
kindly care and interest in his guests
and intelligent and pleasing speech.
And another homo, where I lodged,
Is bright in my memory, the Burke
Club. This is a hunch of bachelors,
and at first I did not know exactly how
to think of it: I wonderer whether it.
were a band sworn to celibacy, with
severe penalties for violation of the
oath. But a sight of the library table
soon settled all doubt. It was covered
with that peculiar shaped
known to contain a kind of
indicating that a more permanent
uage has been graven on two
beat 1 rig as one.
Mr. A. M. Braswell, is secretary
the Club and every member is a
uine gentleman and a good fellow,
paradoxical as some may think the
terms.
And all Waynesboro is just as gen¬
ial and pleasant as host, from the child¬
ren up. Even the servants have re¬
garded themselves also as hosts and
have been pleased to greet the visitors
and favor them with any kindness.
A shining example of this is Mrs. Skin¬
ner's chauffeur, Mr. William Atkinson.
In plans and preparations he has been
as glad to climb telegraph poles or
do any service, and he could do more
things for more jieople at the same time
during the convention than could be
counted with an adding machine.
We could not think of Waynesboro’s
godly people and fail to think of
of color “Aunt Creesey,” she says
has her “through ticket to glory” and
can find room for you to go too, and all
who know her say the information
correct.
From the darkjtess of the
fourths of this city’s population
merged” some may call it, has
ed forth this soul of the white
of a lily, as from even the scum
mud blooms out the white lily of
flora.
The Boy Scouts also All an
tnant niche in this edifice of a
complete, and give assurance that
future citizenship shall maintain
high standard of its present.
Now we have said a little of
nesboro and must proceed though
have hut culled a few flowers
MISSIONS SUNDERED BY
IGNORANCE AND MALICE
Cost of Administering Mission Funds
Lower Than In Commercial En¬
terprises of Any Kind.
A Georgia editor makes it his spec¬
ial care to slander missions. I sup¬
pose he does it to quiet his conscience,
as perhaps that is the only contribu¬
tion he makes to them. I think he is
the one to whom the Voice alludes as
“being eonspicious for his failure to
find out the truth about missions, or
his unwillingness to tell it.”
Perhaps he is the only one so devoid
of shame as to say there is not a single
self-supporting native church in any
mission land. That this charge is ut¬
terly false and wholly inexcusable has
more than once been pointed out. Un¬
der one Board alone (Presbyterian U.
S. A.) there are more than fourteen
hundred native self-supporting
churches. Bishop Warne. of the
Methodist Episcopal Mission in India,
tells of seventy-five self-supporting
charges in that mission. The total na¬
tive contributioins of converts of the
Methodist Board in 1915 amounted
to eight hundred and eighty-eight
thousand dollars, while the aggregate
of uative contributions reported by all
Protestant boards is more than seven
million dollars a year.
The missions of our own church
have not developed so rapidly aloug
this line as some others, yet decided
progress has been made in this direc¬
tion, and the spirit of self-support is
rapidly growing.
Our native contributions for church
purposes, not including receipts of
schools and hospitals, amount to over
sixty thousand dollars a year. This
more than offsets the expense of ad¬
ministering the Board’s affairs, and if
so applied would leave untouched every
penny contributed by the church at
home for Foreign Missions.
Then there is another nine-lived
falsehood floating around, the state¬
ment that it takes two dollars to send
one, and another is that it takes ninety
cent of every missionary dollar to send
the other ten cents. As a matter of
fact the propostition is just about re¬
versed.
In our own Board the excuses of
actual administration including salar¬
ies of secretaries, office expense, travel,
literature, and all the rest averages
around seven or eight per cent. Few
business concerns are conducted on so
narrow a margin of expense. It is
strauge intelligent people will read
that editor’s dirty sheet and believe
his falsehoods. He slanders any body
and anything.
MRS. A. M. TRAVIS. Press Supt.
the wilderness of bloom of the frag¬
rance of this people’s Christian hospi¬
tality. We must say something of the
women. We mean the women of the
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
who came from far and near to hold
this council of holy war. Prepared¬
ness being the convention key-note, mil¬
itary terms predominated throughout
the program. There are many won¬
derful things about this organization,
the women composing its membership,
and their work. There are several
unique points of contrast between it
and all other organizations:
First. It is a Christian to the core,
In Mrs. Dillard’s words it is the
“church militant” the church universal
in which the separate denominational
commands have been banded with the
white ribbon “tie that binds” into one
great army, with Christ the captain
over all.
Its every purpose Is a prayerful one,
springing from prayer. This makes
it an Invincible army, destined soon to
take every enemy trench and strong
bold.
Second. Its spiritual character caus¬
es its every official to seem a
in her department. It Is the only con¬
vention in which participates so
personalities of oommanding
and apjieal that the most liberal
pai>er cannot give space enough
name them all.
Third. -Its appeal and its
embrace every age, class, and
tion. Its forty departments carry
tian and temperance cheer and
ing to every calling and walk in
among men and women of every
COMMERCUL AND
JOB PRINTING
A SPECIALTY.
$1.50 A Year In Advance
CHS ENJ0IIN6 All
MANY AND VARIED ARE THE EN¬
TERPRISES ARISING IN EVERY
SECTION OF OUR
SOUTHEAST.
The Industrial Index, published at
Columbus, Ga., for the Southeast, says:
"The industrial growth of cities of
the Southeast Is steady and substan¬
tial. Announcement is made practically
every week of definite plans to estab¬
lish some manufacturing plant of much
importance in a city of this section,
and frequently a number of such an¬
nouncements have been made in a week
The plants established or enlarged are
as varied in cnaraeter as are the raw
materials for manufacturing in the
Southeast.
“Announcement has been made that a
meat packing plant is to be established
in Macon, Ga., at a cost of $750,000 or
more. At Tifton, Ga., about $100,000
of the stock of a company formed for
establishing such a plant has been sub¬
scribed.
At Columbus, Ga., cotton mill addi
lions and improvements that have been
completed in the past few months have
cost an aggregate of approximately
$1.250.000.,
“Knittixui factories, cotton com¬
presses, feed mills, lumber plants, pea¬
nut oil mills aud flour and grist mills
are some of the industrial enterprises
reported for the week.
“Construction work continues in
great volume. Building material deal¬
ers are having a fine trade, and it is
confidently expected that next Spring
will bring them exceptionally good
business.
“Among tile items of construction
work to be done, as reported this week
are:
“Bank biulding, Atlanta, Ga. ;bridge,
Russell county, Alabama ; church build¬
ing, Fitzgerald, Ga.; city hall, Macon.
Miss.; clubhouse, Fort Myers, Fla ;
*
dormitories, Beauvoir, Miss.; garage
buildings, Charleston, S. C.. and Mo¬
bile, Ala.; hospital building addition.
Rome, Ga.; hotel building. Sein ing.
Fla.; paving, Miami. Fla.; passenger
station, Sibley, Miss.; school building,
Abbeville, S. C.; seawall and street
Improvement, Biloxi, Miss.; road. Bibb
county, Alabama, Broward and Sumter
counties, Florida, and Tlshiminga
county, Miss.; waterworks system,
Llthonia. Ga.
“Construction contracts have been
Rwarded as follows:
“Bridges, Broward county, Florida;
bulkhead, Jacksonville, Fla.; levee
gates, Augusta, Ga.; paving, Atlanta.
Ga., and Jacksonville, Fla.; school
buildings, Columbia, S. C., and Tuseum
hia, Ala.: warehouse, Jacksonville,
Fla.
“Industrial plants will be establish¬
ed as follows:
"Creameries, Dothan, Ala., and Du¬
rant, Miss.; cotton compress. Evans,
9. C.; power plant enlargement, Hunts¬
ville. Ala.; lumber plant. Kola. Miss.
“Fourteen corporations have been
formed in the week, with minimum
capital stocks aggregating $496,000.”
and race. The children enter as heart¬
ily, into their wisely planned program
as do the youth, the middle and old
ages.
Fourth. The beauty so characteris¬
tic of this host of women proves that
the spiritual life transfigures form and
feature into the likeliness of the beau¬
ty of heaven itself. In this body wo¬
men of wealth and women of moder¬
ate and even no means find common
ground as comrades in the ranks and
become as one in Christ. And the war.
we cannot say much of it here, it is
so far flunji in its battle lines farther
than those almost interminable lines
lieyond the Atlantic. And we must
“name some names" Mrs. Dillard’s
charm and grace in presiding captiva¬
ted all. Mrs. Cunyus’ singing was a
soul of one of the children of the King
singing in His garden of the world, and
the music front the fair fingers of Mrs.
Orrie Belle Rogers, of Sandersville.
were strains from the same high and
holy source, and so the blending as one
were irresistible in their power to
please and inspire. The singing of
Miss Julia Goodall was also an inspira¬
tion.
