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October 31st 1913,
Birth Of A Year Of What?
With the birth of the new year the question will naturally rise,
“What will it bring us?
Will it be peace or war? Will it be plenty, or want?
No human being can answer that question today, though some
may make a ludicrous bluff at doing so.
At no time in the life of the present generation has the birth of a
new year been fraught with so much uncertainty with regard to the
world in general and our own country in particular.
We will hope and pray that the war may end and that the world
m y return to some semblance of sanity and commercial stability. But
there is no certainty—only an intense longing for something that is not
We are piuning our faith to the ability of our country to keep
free from foreign eatangiements, but again there 1s no certainty—only
an abiding faith that may ue founded upon the phantasies of our
dreams.
We are looking and longing for the day to come when men will
c2use to butcher one another and return to the more humanizing pur
sulits of a peaceful life., But our longing results only in more looking
a.d longing. There is no peace.
We anticipate a year of great commercial prosperity for the peo
ple of our own country, and it wili be theirs if no unforseen Copibi
nition of wcidents overturn the tranquility of the nation. But in this,
t)o, there is an **if,” and the 1f is not of our making.
We are promised a year of unexampled activity among the fac
tories, and in the fields, and in all of the marts of trade, but much of
it will depend upon the actions of other nations than ours. And we
are today a government and a people without friends among other
peoples of the earth.
We have grown and expanded and developed until we are the
richest of all the countries of the world, and yet our great wealth is
today an actual menace to our peace and security of the future, for
the nation that is hungry for gold will not be choice in its mode of
attack when the time for invasion comes, -
But let us face the future with optimism and with faith, with eyes
open to every essertial fact, and with a firm determination to persevere
and to conquer in the face of ali obstacles. .
Let us dare to be just and right in all of our dealings with nations
and with individuals, and when sanity returns to the world we will
reap as we have sown.
Let us put our own house in order by placing the country in a
state of defense suflicient to insure us from attack from without, and
then let us give the world to understand that we are a just and right
€)us people, that we seek to do harm to no man or collection of men,
aud that we have nothing in our hearts but good will toward all peo
ple.
The vew year will bring us something, but what that something
is to be will depend greatly upon the course we ourselves pursue.
Never in the history of our country has it been put more plainly
and emphatically and squarely up to us.—F. W. Barber,
Uruguay Passes An Eight Hour Law
An act has just been passed and published limting the actual
lahor of workmen and employees in Uruguay to a maximum of eight
hours daily. Tt applies to workmen in factories, ships, yards, quar
r.es, etc.,mp;o employees or servants of industrial or commercial estab
lishments, and of railway and street car lines, and in general to all
prsons engaged in tasks similar to those mentioned. Employees in
Government work are not exempt. The hours of adults may be in
creased in special cases, but not to exceed 48 hours for each six days
of work,
For every workman violating the law the employer shall_be fined
310 the first time and 815 for each repetition. The workmen shall be
{i led the amount received for the excess work, but the fine shall not
« sceed the excess of one month. Twenty-five inspectors controlled by
e labor office, are to enforce the act. Inspectors in the Department
«i Montevideo w‘ill each receive §l,BOO per annum, aud those in the
« ‘her departments will be paid $960. This act will go into effect three
& -nths from date of passage.
And we hope we get 'em all!
et e e
We are face to face with the problems of another year. It
may bring us much or little, as we choose. The question is, what
do we choose? In the parlance of the street, ‘it is up to us.”
THE LEADER-FEN'TKRPRIS®, AND PRESS. WEDNESDAY. DEC. 29, 1915
Judge J.L. Sweat Takes Clark !
Howell and Others to Task‘
Whiie all the people of our city heartily favor the designation of
the short route from Macon via Hawkinsville, Abbeville, Fitzgerald,
Ocilla, Douglas, Way:ross, Folkston and Callahan to Jacksonville as}
a part of the official National Highway beginning at Cnicago and end- |
ing at Miami and while the same is true of everyone along said route
yet they should now do all in their power in support of the selection
thereof by Commissioner W. T. Anderson, the able editor of thay
great newspaper, the Macon Telegraph, to the end that the same may
be sastained and adopted by the other members of the Naticnal High
way Commission over that of Commissioner Clark Howeil of Atlanta,
in favor of the Savannah route, Comrissioner Anderson made his
imartial selection after a careful, thorough personal ILspection of the
several routes, basing same upon superior merit in directness, saving
in distance of over 1' 0 miles, best roads and advantages warranting
permanent mairtenance, whereas Commissioner Howell, manifestly
and admittedly reporting in favor of Savannah from sentiment and
practically without inspection, Moreover he was no doubt paturally
influenced by ties of relationship to prominent Savannah people, Fur
thermore his reasoning favors Savannah as an attractive tourist city
for those secking a desirable place to spend the season and not because
of any advantages from being on the most feasable route of the great
through National Highway from Chicago to Miami, Florida and not
Georgia is to be the southern terminus of this highway. Those going
or returning desirous of visiting Savannah may easily diverge for thatl
purpose just as they will to take in other points of interest all the way
from North to South. It is proper this should be done to suit individu
al desires and convenience and not at the expense of the great body of
travelers. '
Milis B, Lane of Savannah, brother-in-law of Commissionerl
Howell comes to his relief in a communication not only contrary to
actual existing conditions and toe true situation of the respective routes
but most absurd in its argumentive reasoning. He should remember
when he assails that section of South Geor%;ia through which the short
route runs as a waste, howling wiiderness unfit for habitation or even
for tourists to' pass through that since he dwelt there more than twenty
years ago, it has made the most wonderful strides in improvewment of
any section notonly of Georgia but the country at large until it has
become a veritable garden spot, blooming like a rose and dotted all
over by prosperous, progressive towns, including those along the
short route with good hotels offering every modern comfort and con
venience for tne accommodation of the tourist traveller, and that cur
farming industry is not to be excelled by that of any section.
Commissioner Howell and Brother-in-law Lane commend the
Savannah route for its points of interest and condemn the short route
as baving nothing worth seeing. It is truz that leaving Jacon on the
rain-bow route to Savannah tourists in passing through Miliedgevilie
the old capital of the state, wonld find there now the lunatic asylum,
state prison farm and other institutions, but they would hardly be sn
terested in seeing hundreds of poor lunatics and many of the state’s
miserable convicts and they would only find Louisville, the ancient
capital of the colony of Georgia, now but an ordinary country village.
I'hey say too that the rain-bow route is nearer Augusta and Aiken
and Charleston, S. C. and they could also have Added Columbia, Ash
ville, Raleigh, Wilmington, Richmond and Washington. But what
has that got to do with the proper location through Georgia of the
Natiopal Highway from Chicago to Miami? Besides passing through
this favored land of ours along the short route, tourists might be in
terested in seeing Fitzgerald, that remarkable old Northern soldier
town, and diverting from the main route between Fitzgerald and Ocilla
only a few miles they could view the spot in Irwin county where the
illustrious President of the Southern Confederacy, JJefferson Davis,
was captured at the close of the war of the sixties, and coming on to
Waycross they would see the Magic City of the wiregrass springing
up here since the civil war, the wonder of the last Federald ¢ ensus
and now the South Georgia Metropolis with the immense Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad shops here, the great Hebard cypress mill sawing
up the Okefenokee swamp timber and other industrial enterprises,
paved streets and in beauty comparable even to Savannah, and a thriv
ing teeming population of twenty thousand,
Pas:ing on down the short route borders of the great Okefenokee
swamp, and just beyond Folkston the narrow winding St. Marys river
%dividing Georgia and Florida is crossed now in a few, minutes by
ferry and is soon to be bridged, being the only stream worth nothing
ou the short route. On the Savaunah route from that city to Florida
there are numerous rivers always to be ferried ata consumption of
considerable time and at much expense and the costal towns can only
be reached and seen by diverting for many miles from the main route.
The short route follows the Piedmont ridge all the way with the
waters flowing east and west and rendering its most highly susceptible
of being permanently mamtained in the very best condition. Every
‘reason exists why the short raute selected by Commissioner Andarson
‘should be fovored and adopted by the Nationol Highway Commission,
and it is confidently hoped and expected this will be done. |
Respectfully submitted, |
J. L. Sweat, in Waycross Harold. : ‘
Apropos of Mr. Lane’s assertion as to the comparative develog~
ment of the interested sections of south Georgia, we call his special
attention to the census report of 1910. No towns in Georgia or, per-j
haps in the entire South will show the large increase in population
than do the cities of Fitzgerald, Douglas and Waycross, on thef
“short route.” In 1900 Fitzgerald boasted a population of 1817 and'
in 1910 the o!ficial figures give us 5798 Douglas, the little giant cf
the wire grass had a population of 617 in 1900 and showed 3550
within its incorporate limits in 1910. Waycross which had £Bl9
population is credited with 14483 in 1810. Can Mr. Lane produce
any town or city on his route that shows a like proportionate in
crease in population. And we make this assertion, having traveled
this section for the past twenty years, that the rural districts in
all of the counties alony the entire route from Macon via Fitzgerald
and Waycross, show an even greater degree of development than
do the towns along thz line. FMr. Lane shouldn’t impaose upon tis
brother-in-law, Mr. Clarke Howell for the olficial figures atespen to
all.
Happy New Year! ,
And a prosperous yeun !
And even a peaceful one!
Sad Accident Befalls
Prominent Family
Fatally Burned, R.eederi
Manning Succombs to ‘
His Wounds |
Lattle Reeder Manning, the pet‘
of the neighborhood, the nine year
old son of Mr. and Mrs, J. P.
Manning of S. Main street, died
Tuesday afternoon as a result of
burns sustained earlier in the day,
whilst watching nis father’s chau
feur cleaning his car. It appears
that the chaufeur was washing
parts of the car with gasoline and
had a bucket of the fluid standing
near the car, Being about through
he operated the switch and the ac
cumalated vapors under the engine
ignited. To avoid a more serious
tire, the chaufeur most likely
reached for the bucket of gasoline
and hurriedly threw it from the
side of the car, in the excitement
in the direction of the child. The
child then bevan to ruz towards
the house and in passing the auto,
his gasoline soaked clothes caucht
fire. When he reached the side
walk Mrs. L. A. Cooper, passing
on the west side of Main, saw
flames rising frem the back of the
boy and believing for a moment
that he was holding a newspuaper
on fire behind him, ecalled to him
but in less time than it takes to
tell it, saw the terrible state in
which poor Reeder was in and
rushed across the street and to his
assistance. With the help of the
chaufeur she secured the boy and
both endeavored to get off the
burning clothes, but frightened as
he was, he managed to getaway
from them but they again secured
him and finally removed the burn
ing remnants. Mr. Durard Jack
son by that time reached them and
tenderly carried the little fellow in
the house. Little Josephine, his
sister showed remarkable presence
of mind fora child of her age,
having just read of a means to
extinguish flames utder similar
circumstances, she sccured her
sweater to envelop the burning
body of her brother, in which at
tempt she herself secured some
‘burns on her hands.
i Physicians were soon at the bed
side and everything was done to
save the precious life, but the
‘burns had( made too deep an inroad
)on the vital parts of the slender
}hodv and death relieved the child
of further pain, The sincerest
sympathies of the entire commani-
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ty are exteaded to the bereaved
f.-a.mil_y. I'he funeral services were
held this afternoon at the home,
coxducted by the Rev. L. A. Hill,
pastor of the Central Methodist
church.
Vicforious, Germany
Wil Offer Peace
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!Conditions Will Be Com
municated to Allies
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’SES:«?ION -+ T THE HAGUE
1 Geneva, Switzerland, Dec. 28
:A dispateh to the Tribune from
1 Vienna says: | ,
1 “Chardeltor von Bethmann-Hol
ilwe_g 1s expected in Vienna shortly
?with fuil conditions under which
the central powers will accept
peace. After discussing the terms
‘with Baron ven Burian, the Aus
trian foreign minister, the com
imu:;ic',atim':s will be officially com
‘municated to the alhes, Grerman&
%t»::;,;eeti[!;{ that the first conference
Ei:.r‘: neld at The Hague,
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WAGKENSER PLANMING
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- EXPEDITION INEGYPT
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Attack on Seuz Canal Ex
i pected, Paris Hears
[ Paris, Dec. 28 —Telegrams
ifrom Bucharest declare that fielc’
Marshal von Mackensen is direct
!ing preparations for a powerful
‘expedition against Egypt, says a
Havas dispatch from Rome. Ad
vices to the Messaggero from the
Rumaniza capital, it is added,
iarc that a number of trains load
ed with munitions have been sent
|to Turkey, including one train of
ltwenty-five flat cars laden with
the parts of two 16 inch mortars
{and shells for the use of the
iguns, the shipment being des
‘tined for use in the Egyptian
‘campaign.
} ~ Reports that Germany is pre
\paring to move against the Suez
canal and Egypt with a mixed
!force of Turks, Germans and
|Austrians are current in Paris.
!Some of the reports go into
various details, it being said, for
in'stance, that the army is likely
Lo consist of 500,000 to 800,000
‘men, and that a four-track rail
!way is being built across the
{half-desert region toward Suez,
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~ Come to Fitzgerald to shop.