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PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW A
FAILURE
There is no occasion for these
failures; the law should be so
amended so as ot cut them out
entirely. It was better to cut out
local tax entirely than to run it
as it is now operated.—Carroll
County Times.
We don’t know what the trou
ble is in Carroll county, but here
in Ben Hill the law operates all
right. True, there are times when
we ourselves think that better re
sults should be had or the amount
of money spent, but then this is
a matter to be remedied at home.
Secure better teachers and closer
supervision,
NO MYSTERY
One campaign manager says
he doesn’t know how to treat the
southern delegates. The way to
treat any southern delegate is to
ask him what he will have.—
South Georgia Progress.
That might have been the way
to the delegates heart before May
Ist, but it leads to the chaingang
now.
HOG THE BEST WEAPGN
The hog is one of the very best
weapons under the sun for fight
ing the boll weevil with. Good
hogs—Dblooded Wogs—are much
better than razor-back and piney
woods rooters, just as a new hoe
is 2 whole lot better than one that
cuts only half the grass and
weeds it touches.—Albany Her
ald.
Ben Hill county farmers are he
ginning to believe the hog stories
and they are putting faith in their
mortgage-raising ability. With
the assistance of our farm dem
onstration agent, the farmers of
this county will he ready whenj
Mr. Weevil comes to town. |
BUYING BACK AMERICAN
SECURITIES HELD BY.
EUROPEANS
'rom the Washington Post. v
One of the most encouraging
items for gencral business in the
United Staets was made public
yesterday in the report of the
holdings of common stock in the
United States Steel Corporation.
At the beginning of the Furo
pean war foreign holdings of the
common stock amounted to 1,-
285,636 shares, or about 25 per
cent of the entive Issue of that
class of stock.
The foreign Loldings at the
present time are estimated at but
634,469 shares, or less than one
half of what they were about 20
months ago.
These shares transferred to this
country represent so much wealth
accumulated by our people here,
and at the same time they repres
ent so much indebtedness that
was held abroad as now paid and
canceled, so far as commercial in
ternational obligations are con
cerned.
These shares computed at the
price of Monday's closing, $B3 a
share, show that the people of the
United States hold nearly $54-
000,000 more of the stock of thel
steel corporation than they did on
July 1, 1914, and that the people
©of Europe have had their readily
‘convertible assets reduced by that
‘amount.
This showing as to the lessen
ing of the foreign holdings of
steel shares and the building up
«f holdings in our own country is
an index as to transactions in
nearly every other industrial
arilway, municipal, state and nat
imal security of the United‘
“tates that was held abroad at‘
the opening of hostilities.
The absorption by investors
liere of these securitics, the solid.
substantial and sound addition to
the wealth of this republic, and at
the same time the cancellation ofl
the huge sum of indebtedness to!
ILurope which these represented,
has produced a marvelous change
in this country’s financial rela
tions with Europe, and as it con
tinues will add to the financial
strength and commercial power ot
this country with every passing
week.
Taking part pay in our own
valuable securities for the prod
ucts of the soil, the output of the
mines, the mills, the shops and
factories, the labor of this coun
try, securities which in the hands
of foreigners were obligations to
them, but in the possession of our
own people become resources of
our citizens and can be classed
as wealth of the nation, is a first
class stroke of business.
This movement is of a magni
tude, so far as values are con
cerned, that cannot fail to exert
a most powerful influence upon
international finance for many
years to come,
THE CRISIS IN ENGLAND
Between the insistence of her
Allies and the obstinate refusal of
her manhood to enlist Great Brit
ain faces the most serious crisis
of the war. The demand from
France that England shall come
to the rescue is now something
more than a mere hint. It is
openly voiced by the press and
people of Irance. The eyes of
Frenchmen are opening to the
callous selfishness of England.
Words, fine words, but no help;
promiscs, explanations, excuses,
but no soldiers to fight at Verdun,
lingland brags that she has rais
ed armies. Where are they? [f
they exist, their idleness ~while
France bleeds is the shame of
fingland.
In the perfidy with which Eng
land calmly sacrifices her own al
lies lies the seed of disaster to the
British empire. This war is
merely the prelude,of another, in
which the lineap wil be greatly
changed. When Russia and Eng
land come to grips hereafser Eng
land cannot count upon deluding
France again, if there should be a
France.
~ “We are fighting your battles,”
says England to the United States
when protests are made against
her violations of American rights.
It is false. She is not even fight
ing the battles of her own sworn
allies. She is skulking out of
battles; her people refuse to en
list. Dry rot seems to have at
tacked the empire at its heart. Its
chief role has been aggression
against undefended and peaceful
neutrals. It will not or dare not
face its foe in open manly bat
tles.
What a change from the Eng.
land of old! What a fall from the
old heroic days! Tt is little won
der that the remaining bold and
determined spirits in England are
in revolt. The empire is being
weighed in the balance. If it does
not shake off its sloth and fight
with all its might, it will go
down. The issue in England now
is whether the old spirit will as
sert itself or whether the shuf
fling and haggling Asquits and
Greys will be suffered to run the
country to, “destruction—Wash
ington Posf.
LEADER-ENTERPRISE PRINT
ING PAYS. ,
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Have you seen the new base
ball park? The old park has
been enlarged, a fine big grand
stand built, a fence put up which
will prevent “side door passes,”
and some bleachers in the course
of construction. The outfield has
been filled in and the infield is a
lot nicer, too.
In the batting practice at the
ball park yesterday most of the
players knocked the balls over the
fence about twice out of three
times. This looked very nice but
was kind of hard on the boys who
had to chase the balls,
THE LEADER ENTERPPRISE AND PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1916.
e ——— e&RAR A s Ry ATRL R &
LINES ARE TIED UP
Thousands of Persons Walk or
Ride to Work in Autos
or Drays
Pittsburgh, Pa., May I.—Thou
sands of persons were compelled
to either walk or ride in automo
biles or big drays to work today
as a result of the strike of street
car men which began shortly af
ter midnight. Operations were
completely suspended on all lines
of the Pittsburgh Railways com
pany in Pittsburgh and vicinity
and the Washington and Charles
ton Interurban lines, as well as on
the Beaver Valley and Washing
ton lines.
Pres. J. D. Callery announced
that no attempt to operate cars
would be made today.
The Pennsylvania, Baltimore
and Ohio and the Pittsburg and
Lake Erie railroads put on extra
local trains in order to handle the
‘increascd crowds, while all the
\dnwntnwn department stotres
and other business houses sent
automobile delivery trucks to va
rious sections of the city to gath
er up their employes.
The strike order was issued by
T. J. Ward, president of District
85, Strect Car Men’s union, at
midnight and shortly after nego
tiations between the employes
and officials of the company had
been broken off. No disorder
‘marked the start of the strike and
‘within two hours after the order
\ha(l been issued, traction service
had been tied up.
‘ Mayor Joseph G. Armstrong
attempted to prevent the final
Dbreak, but was unsuccessful. He
‘mnfcrrc(l with representatives of
}lmth sides in an effort to induce
‘them to submit a new proposition
but both sides remained firm.
The strike affects 3,200 con
ductors and motormen and fabout
800 other employes of the com
pany. The men first demanded
30, 35 and 38 cents an hour, for
respectively, the first, second and
third year's service, but later
yiclded to 30, 33 and 36 cents.
The company refused to pay
more than 32 cents as a miximum
wage, 2 cents above the present
Tate.
Vice President J. H. Thorpe,
of the union, this morning issued
an order instructing strikers to
keep away from saloons. He said
he zmtfi‘ipatcd no trouble.
A strike of stone cutters, stone
masons and brick layers was
averted today by the announce
ment last night of the Allege
heny county executive committee
of the Stone Cutters’ union that
their demand for an eight-hour
day with no reduction had been
granted. "
Announcement was also made
that there will be no general
strike of barbers, 176 out of 208
employers having already signed
a new scale,
WIFE AND AUTO AiD IN
LIFE-CONVIET'S ESCAPE
L. B. Hall, Sent Up From Tifton,
Made Get-Away
Eastman, May 2.—1. B. Hall, a
white convict on the Dodge coun
ty chan gang, made an casy get
away yesterday afternoon, escap
ing from the camp, it is said, in an
automobile that was occupied by
two other men. The camp at
which Hall was confined is locat
ed at Mt Airy church,-about 12
miles from Eastman, and its in
mates were engaged in work on
the public roads of the county.
It is said that after leaving the
camp, the automobile provided
for Hall's escape made a straight
dash for Abbeville, in Wilcox
county, at which place his wife
had provided a supply of citizen's
clothes, and which Hall lost no
time in getting into Hall is said
to have left Abbeville immediate
ly thereafter for parts unknown
atd no further trace of him has
been found.
Killed Dennis Hall
Hall was sent to the state pen
itentiary for life for the murder
of Denis Hall, at Tifton, several
vears ago. He was first senten
ced to hang, which was later com
muted to life imprisonment by the
prison commission. He was sent
to the state farm at Milledge
ville, was there at the time Leo
aHOULD WAR GOME
President Wilson Says If Test
Comes Americans Will Unite
to Deiend Principles
“vashington, May I—President
Wilson, speaking at the opening
of the National Service School
training camp for women here to
day, said:
“God forbid that the United
States should be drawn into war,
but if she should be America
would shake herself out of a
dream and say to anyone who
doubts the spirit of the new
world that she still speaks the
voice of humanity.”
The president spoke before sev
eral thousand men and women in
the open in the midst of the en
campment where young women
are learning the rudiments of mil
itary life. With squared jaw he
asserted his belief that if the test
came America would raliy toge
ther to the defense of the prin
ciples for which the nation has
stood since its birth.
Cnly One Allegiance 1
Declaring that there was only
one allegiance “conceivably pos
sible for Americans,” he said the
number of people of really divid
ed allegiance in the United States
was very small. He spoke opti
mistically of the stand Americans
of foreign birth would take in
case¢ of war, and added that the
few who failed to be loyal would
be cast out.
The president predicted that a
spir}t of regeneration would come
out ‘of the present war. His wnrds‘
were cnthusiastically appplauded
by the crowd whichgmcluded Sec
retaries Daniels a“lFßalfieg_ .and
many officials of the gent
and army and navy officess,
The address wgs d"y al
most entirely to the European
war, and the audience plainly
had diplomatic negotiations be
tween the United States and oth
er countries in mind.
Purpose of United States
The war; M.r Wilson said, had
made = Amierica realize ~danger
which its people never thought
existed. He declared the United
States was established to see that
justice and liberty should belong
to America and to all mankind.
The nations engaged in the pres
ent struggle, he said, were being
brought into a feeling of national
unity, and that America was get
ting the benefit of that sugges
tion. Before the war Americans
were bent upon seeking many di
verse objects, he added, but the
war has brought them together.. .
“God forbid” said the president,
“that we should be drawn into
war, but if we should be, Amer
ica would be seen once more_to
shake herself out of a dream to
say, ‘Did any man deem that we
were asleep? Did any man deem
that we had forgotten the tradi
tions of America? Did any man
deem that he could tamper with
the honor or intergrity of the
United States?” lln the great
voice of national enthusiasm
which would be raised all over
the world would stand once more
thrilling to hear the voice of the
new world asserting the stand
ards of justice and liberty.”
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Frank’s throat was cut by a fel
low prisoner, and about which
Hall talked very interestingly
after being transferred to the
Dodge county camp in Novem
ber last.
Hall is about 35 years old and
was reared in Wilkinson, being a
member of a prominent family of
that county. His wife, who pre
vious to her marriage was a Miss
Tindall, of Twiggs county, re
sides with her four children at
Chauncey, ten miles from East
man.
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