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WHAT DOTH It MAN?
Germany is wcrifftig, by every
scheme that ingenuity can devise and
money can put into operation, to make
American workingmen traitors to
their country in its hour of need.
What doth it profit a man if he
sends sons and brothers to the battle
fields, and after he gets-them there he
betrays them to the enemy by stop
ping the industrial home work without
which they can neither win nor es
cape?
The courses of nations —the lives of
millions —are changed by very small
events. Had the Monitor not been
ready for the Merrimac exactly when
she was. the Union fleet would have
been rendered useless and the Civil
War might have had a different end
ing. Had someone then succeeded in
making serious trouble in a mine, a
foundry, or a shop—had someone then
succeeded in delaying transportation
while the Monitor was under construc
tion, what would have become of the
whole Union fleet of wooden ships
which was blockading the Southern
ports ?
Germany wants us to be unready or
confused when a similar crisis comes.
Our whole nation is preparing for
the turning point in thi swar which
is to determine whether every man
shall have a chance to work out his
destiny, or whether he and his com
pany are to become subject to the dic
tation of a Prussian group.
If we are not fully ready when the
test comes it will be easier for German
armies and German ships, German <
submarines and German aircraft, to
kill the men that go out from your:
community to protect you and your
rights.
Whoever from any motive' delays
work bearing directly or indirectly on
the war will be an accessory to the
murder of his fellow Americans.
Every strike in the United States,
while this war is in progress, is a
blow in favor of Germany.
What doth it profit a man to in
crease his wages or decrease his work
ing hours if by so doing he contributes
to the victory of a nation that makes
slaves of white men and scourges them
as they work ?
The condition of the blacks in Amer
ica before the Civil War was far bet
ter than the condition of the whites of
Belgium who today are carried off
like cattle, are overworked, underfed,
beaten and, sick or well, must labor
incessantly, often under the fire of
their own guns.
What doth it profit a man to aid a
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I monarch who in this manner has
shamelessly re-esablished the slavery
of white men? Hie workingman in
America who obstructs the cutting of
wood, the mining of fuel, the weaving
of cloth, the turning of wheels in fac
tories or on rails while this war is in
progress—he is helping the slave mas
-1 ters, the destoryers of civilization, the
I murderers of women and children.
What doth it profit a man who has
lived in a land of incomparable liber
ties of advantages unparalleled in all
1 the history of the world, to contribute
by any act, however small, to the suc
cess of an autocracy to whom a com
mon man is but a clod of earth ?
The workingman who stands faith
fully by his duties day by day, allow
ing no person and no thought to get
between him and an honest perform
ance of his work, is rendering the
highest kind of patriotic service to his
nation an i to his family.
What doth it profit a man to sell his
manhood, his self-respect, perhaps his
soul, for a'little selfish gain in such
an hour? When life’s services are
measured up at the end, those who
have faithfully labored through the
war shall be entitled to their credit as
weHas those who have led the charges
in battle.
What doth it profit a man who wants
to improve the condition of laboring
men if he gains a little but in so do
ing prolongs the slavery of Gelgian
I workingmen, wjio now cannot gain
I their freedom but by death, or through
the victory of the Allies?
Stand by your work for your o\tn
honor and safety, for the safety and
success, of your fellow countrymen who
go forth to fight, as well as for the
! sake of workingmen who are now in
I actual slavery beneath German slave
drivers.
“WE MUST YIELD TO AND
OBEY COMMON COUNSEL.” j
_ |
The President Appeals to Those Up
. Against the Real Thjng to
Exercise Self-Control.
\
The President, in addressing the
American Federation of Labor Con
vention at Buffalo, N. Y,, November
12, said in conclusion:
“I have been very much distressed,
my feilow citizens, by some of the
things that have happened recently.'
The mob is displaying itself here
and {here in thi scountry. I have no
sympathy with what some men are
saying, but 1 have no sympathy with
the men who take their punishment
into their own hands; and I want to
the bARTow TRIBUNE.THE CARI ERSVIU.E NEWS,
say to every man who does join such
a mob that I do not recognize him as
worthy of the free institutions of the
United States. There are some organ
izations in this country whose object’
is anarchy and the destruction of law, j
but I would not meet their efforts by
making myself partner in destroying
the law. I despise an dhate their pur
poses as much as any man. but I re
spect the ancient processes of justice;
and I would be too proud not to see
them done justice, however wrong they
are.
Must Obey Common Counsel.
“So I Want to utter my earnest pro- ■
test against any manifestation of the ■
spirit of lawlessness anywhere or in
any cause. Why, gentlemen, look what!
it means. We claim to be the greatest
democratic people in the world, and
democracy means first of all that we
I can govern ourselves. If 'our men have
! not self-control, then they are not ca
pable of that great thing which we
!call democratic government. A man
I who takes the law into his own hands
is not the right man to co-operate in
! any formation or development of law
; and institutions, and some of the pro
\ cesses by which the struggle between
j capital and labor is carried on aie pro
i cesses that come very near to taking
,the law into your own hands. Ido not
mean for a moment to compare it with
! what I have just been speaking of,
! but 1 want you to see that they are
mere gradations of this manifestation
j of the unwillingness to co-operate, and
that the fundamental lesson of the
j whole situation is that we must not
j only take common counsel, but that we
must yield to and obey common coun
jsel. Not all of the instrumentalities
j for this are at hand.
“I am hopeful that in the very near
j future new instrumentalities may be
| organized by which we can see to it
that various things that are now going
on ought not to go on. There are vari
ous processes of the dilution of labor
and the unnecessary substitution of
labor and the bidding in distant mar
kets and unfairly upsetting the whole
competition of labor which ought not;
to go on. I mean now on the part of
employers, and we must interject into
this some instrumentality of co-opera
tion by which the fair thing will be
done all around. I am hopeful that
some such instrumentalities may be
devised, but whether they are or not,
we must use those that we have and
upon every occasion where it is neces
sary have such an instrumentality
originated upon that occasion.
“So, my fellow citizens, the reason
i 1 came away from Washington is that
I sometimes get lonely down there. |
There are so many people in Washing
ton who know things that are not so, j
and there are so few people who know f
anything about what the people of
the United States are thinking about,.
I ahve to come away and get reminded
of the rest of the country. I have to
come away and talk to men who are
up against the real thing, and say to
them. ‘I am with you if you are with
me ’ And the only test of being with
me is not to think about me personally
|at all, but merely to think of me as
tne expression for the time being of
the power and dignity and hope of the
United States.”
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If it be for prince or peasant, .
Buy it now! ,
Buy it early in November,
Or ai least before December;
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—The Outlook.
German aircraft are marked with a
Maltese cross. Allied planes used in
Europe are distinguishable by a paint
ed bulls-eye. American planes bear a
circular blue field with a white star
and a bright red center.
According to Secretary Daniels,
there was turkey for the Thanksgiving
dinner of every man iff the Navy. A
naval supply ship arrived in European
waters in time to furnish the men on
the submarine hunting destroyers with
the traditional Thanksgiving fare.
I
Start you a Christmas Savings
Account with the Bank of Carters
ville, today;
Want to fight? Begin to save
your money in the Bank of Car
tersville Christmas Club, and be
ready to buy a Liberty Bond.
The National Council of Women,
meeting in Washington for war work,
embraces 27 national woman’s organ
izations representing 7,000,000 Ameri
can women.
NOTICE OF FIRST MEETING OF
CREDITORS.
In the District Court of the United
States for the Northern District
of Georgia,
In the matter of H. F. Martin,
Bankrupt.
In Bankruptcy No. lUOO
To the creditors of H. F. Marlin, of
Kingston, Ga., in the Comity of
Bartow and the district aforesaid-, a
bankrupt.
Notice is hereby given that on the
7th day of December, A. D. 1917, the
said H. F. Martin was duly adju
dicated bankrupt; and that the first
meeting of his creditors will be held
at the Court House, in Cartersville,
Ga., on the 22nd day of December, A,
D„ 1917, at 10:30 o’clock in the fore
noon, at which time the creditors may
attend, prove their claims, appoint a
trustee, examine the bankrupt, and
transact such other business as -may
properly come before said meeting.
.. C. D. McCUTCHEN,
Referee in Bankruptcy.
This Dec. I2tb, 19F7,
NOTICE OF FIRST MEETING
OF CREDITORS
In the District Court of the United
States.for the Northern District of
Gecrgia.
In the matter of A. M. Colston, Bank
rupt.
In Bankruptcy No. 995.
To the creditors of A. M. Colston, of
Adairsville, in the County of Bar
tow, and district aforesaid, a bank-;
rupt.
Notice is hereby given that on the j
Ist day of December, A. D. 1917, the]
said A. M. Colston was duly adjudicated j
bankrupt; and that the first meeting of j
his creditors will be held at the Court I
House in Cartersville, Ga., on the 22nd
day of December, A. D. 1917, at 10:30 |
o’clock in the forenoon, at which time ■
the creditors may attend, prove ,their ;
claims, appoint a trustee, examine the j
bankrupt, and transact such otherTms- j
iness as may properly come before said I
meeting.
C. D. McCUTCHEN,
Referee in Bankruptcy.
■ Dec. I2th, 1017.
Tune, “Tipperary.’*
Written by Will D. Upshaw.
There is one way to whip the Kai>
Just one way to go.
There is one way to whip the Kaiser
And lay the Prussians low.
Then here’s to the Friends of Freedom
Let’s help the Allies now!
There is just one way to whip the
Kaiser,
And “Uncle Sam” knows how.
We didn’t want to have to lick h; m
We shied from the fight,
And Woodrow—God bless him!
He stood for Peace and Righ:
But the Germans kept a-fightii
They sunk our ships at sea,
And now we’ve got to spank the
Kaiser
For—the —sake—of— Liberty.
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for Christmas
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And besides, they are substan
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