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r HEBARTOW TRIBUNE
The CARTERSVILLE NEW*.
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February 17, 1910, at the post office
it Cartersville, Ga., under the Aet
March 3. 1879.
JERUSALEM REDEEMED.
Amid the event® of recent days as
sociated with this greatest of all wars,
events and results which have brought
concern and apprehension to the fol
lowers of the cause of the Allies,
comes the news that will serve to
hearten and encourage all Christen
dom —Jerusalem, The Holy City, has
been taken from under the dominion
of the Turks by the British. Millions
>f followers of the Lowly Nazarene
will experience joy and satisfaction
that such a result has been achieved.
To take Jerusalem may or may not
have been of great military value. But
to have it come under the influence
and be governed by a Christian nation
for the first time upon the eve of the
anniversary of His birth nearly one
thousand nine hundred and eighteen
years ago, brings comfort and hope to
those who have contemplated with
sadness that the city where Jesus
walked and taught, healed and pleach
ed, has been for practically 1200 years
under the control of a government that
knew Him not.
Jerusalem, where Christianity was
born, has been redeemed. No man who
has read the New Testament but who
wanted to see this ancient center of a
world embracing religion. The city of
David, of Calvary, redeemed! What
a priceless spiritual victory has al
ready been won by our ally.
Let us forever keep Jerusalem. If
victory crowns our efforts we may be
willing to return all conquered terri
tory and possessions of the enemy—
except Jerusalem. The spiritual and
sentimental value of all things asso
ciated wit hthe history and landmarks
of this city are dear to us and mean
nothing to the Mohammedan. But,
after all, some thanks are due the
Turk. He never .despoiled the town.
He left intact its ancient altars. He
evacuated without destruction. Could
as muCh be expected of the Germans?
The dispatches tell us that General
Allenby walked into the city! This
Christian soldier remembered how
Christ entered Jerusalem and how it
was his followers sang “Blessed be the
King that cometh in the name of the
Lord; peace in heaven, and glory in
the highest.” And again Christian
people throughout the earth are shout
ing in triumph today that Jerusalem
has been redeemed. ,
HOW BKD-BLOODEI) AMERICANS
Between Ages of 30 and 50 Can Do a
Lot in Winning War Suggested
by George Ade.
Advice to Americans between the
ages of 30 and 50 on How to Help Win
the War is given thus by George Ade:
While the war is on, the active work
in support of the boys at the front will
be shouldered cheerfully by men and
women a* little too old for acrobatic
service but not vet frosted at the
temples.
They will supply part of the money
and most of the “pep” needed to sup
ply and encourage a huge army in the
Held.
It is for them to realize that we
have passed the period of doubting and
question answering.
“Hustling Supplanting Conversation.” j
We have come to the days when
hustling most supplant conversation.
It was all right six months ago to
pare an hour a day in trying to con
vince some or e writh a vacant eye and
~ ,]ark Mr.o that we were really justi
-1 J in act -ling the insolent challenge
i.s-owr. at by Germany.
'V.j are to he forgiven if, even four
' >r hs ago. you -pent valuable time
:• to fonvlne* % ttaggkli minority
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t hird. '* allies art to trusted.
Fourth. 'I Red ( * ,< i* ove us
-3 ieion and d<>e not obtain t > .**r mon
<y or knitted - <! indt ■ <• pre
sses.
Fifth. All ta\e.' which have been
’ivied are justified by extraordinary
:.nd unprecedented conditions.
Sixth. This is not a rich man’s war;
was not precipitated by any Wall
• *reet influence: it is not concerned
< er pi t’, ate investments; it. is not :t
: r.A benefit for munition makers.
Seventh. Fair promises have no
value when they are made by a crim
inal who finds himself backed into a
corner.
Eighth. The men in our training
camps and aboad transports and sta
tioned somewhere in France are being
safeguarded as American soldiers nev
er before were looked after, as regards
wholesome food, proper sanitation,
prevention of disease, and moral guid
ance.
Why enumerate further?
You’ll Kind ’Em Everywhere.
Abe Martin met a feller down in
Brown County that never heard of
Tony Pastor, and we have a taxpayer
in our township who thinks the world
is flat, and you can find cabaret per
formers in New York City who don’t
believe there is such a place as lowa,
and clairvoyants still find customers,
and you can name people who will con
sult a patent medicine “ad.” in prefer
ence to a doctor, and old Jethro Til
ford, over in Shelby Township, carries
a dried-up potato keep uiT the rheu
matism.
In every community you will find a
Notice to Registrants of Bartow County
Read carefully the following advice and rules for the purpose
of assisting you in answering the sixteen pages of questions
which our government requires each of you to answer promptly
after notice has been mailed you by local board:
You have the right to make txut all the replies to the questions
asked asked you by the Government, without our assistance or
advice, and deliver the same to the Local Board.
We, in conjunction with the local citizens named in the an
nouncement in last week’s Tribune, will give up half of our time
for from twenty to thirty days after the Local Board begins mail
ing you the questionnaire, for the purpose of assisting you in
properly replying to all of our Government’s questions, and pre
venting you being drafted immediately into the service of the
Government for failure to properly answer the questions.
The Local Board will begin mailing out these questionnaires
on or after the 15th of December, in accordance with directions
which they receive from Washington, D. C., and they will mail
them out, one-twentieth of the number at a time, or about one
hundred questionnaires, each day thereafter, with the exception
of Sunday, until the full list* of registrants has been thus notified.
You may be among the first or among the last to be notified
during this twenty days time in which all questionnaires will be
mailed. However, if the Local Board mails you a questionnaire
or posts your name in Cartersville, Ga., as having had a question
naire mailed you, you rae bound to answer these qpestions within
the next seven days from the date of mailing, whether you receive
the questionnaire or not. If you fail to make your sworn answers
properly within the required time, you may be imprisoned for one
year or you may be immediately drafted into military service,
regardless of any reason which you might properly have given at
the right time by way of an exemption.
Therefore, if you have changed your address since you gave it
to the Local Board this year, you should immediately notify them
of your new address. Again, you should inform yourself from the
Local Board as to whether or not yours has been mailed out, and
if you find that it has or that your name is posted as one to whom
notice has been given, you should immediately call on the Local
Board for a copy of the questions.
We have approximately two thousand men to assist in answer
ing sixteen pages of questions each. We are doing this without
any compensation whatever to us, and do it cheerfully to assist
the young men who may he called upon to defend our country and
as a matter of patriotic duty to our Government in the present
crisis.
In order to handle this matter systematically and with the
least possible inconvenience to you, we must have rigid rules
which will he adhered to with reference to all registrants, and if
you avail yourself of our assistance herein, we must ask that you
adhere strictly to these rules, as follows, to wit:
Do not come to our offices. We will discuss this matter with
you only in the Grand Jury room.
When you receive your questionnaire, by all means preserve
the envelope in which you receive it, as the postmark of the Car
tersville postoffice is very important. 1 Put this envelope in your
pocket and bring it to Cartersville with you, on the date imme
diately hereinafter directed:
If the postmark on the envelope in which your questionnaire
is enclosed is dated on Saturday, do not come to Cartersville until
Tuesday. If it is dated on Monday, come to Cartersville Wednes
day ;ifit is dated on Tuesday, come to Cartersville Thursday; if it
is dated on Wednesday, come to Cartersville on Friday; if it is
dated on Thursday, come to Cartersville Saturday; if it is dated
on Friday, come to Cartersville Monday; if it is dated on the 22d,
which is Saturday before Christmas, Come to Cartersville on Wed
nesday, the 26th: if it is on Monday, the 24th. just before Christ*
THE BARTOW TRIBUNE-THE CARTERSVILLE NEWS.
contrary-minded sediment of the hu
man race—people who keep them
selves somewhat in evidence by noisily
denying facts which are self-evident to
all of their neighbors who happen to
be in the full enjoyment of sanity.
They are somewhat like frogs, i. e.,
they make an awful noise in propor
tion to their number.
Mostly “Atmosphere Disturbers.”
Now, if you will take the trouble to
check up in your immediate neihbor
hood the people who, from the begin
ning of the war, have been full of
doubts and questions and false alarms,
you will find that they are few in num
' her and of precious little importance,
'except as atmospheric disturbances.
Also, did it occur to you:
That the man who had bought most
liberally of Government bonds never
questioned the safety of his security?
That the woman who was knitting
the most socks and sweaters never be
' lieved the silly stories about the Red
Cross being a crooked institution?
That the soldier boy about to board
a transport and join his comrades of
France and Great Britain never was
P. F. AKIN
COLQUITT FINLEY
W. C. HENSON
J. R. WHITAKER
J. M. NEEL, Jr.
known to doubt the sincerity of the
men with whom he was soon to join
shoulders ?
No, indeed!
All t he wails and misgivings and
fish stories are put into circualtion by
a few picayune outsiders who were
just built to be obstructionists and
somehow can’t help it.
Belong With the “Tories.”
They are in a class with the Tories
who feasted the aristocratic British
officers while Washington’s Army
starved at Valley Forge.
They are a hold-over of the Vallan
digham clan that reviled Lincoln and
gave an underhanded copperhead sup
port to the cause of slavery, even af
ter it was doomed.
They are the kind of people who op
pose public improvements, will not
buy tickets for the Chautauqua, criti
cise the minister if he smiles in public,
and attach the presumption of guilt to
any woman attacked by scandal.
They are the small bores, the two
by-iuuia, the gnats, the sand flies, the
ticks put on earth to teach good peo
ple the quality of patience.
The time has come to ignore them.
If we can not lock them up for safe
keeping, at least we can shut them out
from our daily program and go ahead
with the important work laid out for
us.
No Time to Waste Proving Facte.
This is no time to waste precious
hours and vocal energy in tryirig to
prove that two and two make four,
and water is wet, and the sun sets in
the West, and jthe mad dog of Prus
sianism must be muzzled.
Do not try to convince the miniature
La Follettes, because they do net wish
to be convinced. They derive a bilious
comfort from being different. They
have learned that no cloud has a silver
lining; it is festooned on the interior
with crepe.
If all the optimists along your street
should arise some morning into a
world bedecked with dew sparkles and
exclaim in unison, “What a beautiful,
sunshiny day!” then some two-legged
ciab would emerge from behind a lilac
bush and say, “Yes; but I think it’ll
rain before night.”
If you find a banana skin on the
mas, come to Cartersville on the 27th; if it dated on the 26th. just
after Christmas, come to Cartersville on the 28th, and so on.
As soon as you receive your questionnaire, lay aside every
thing else and, beginning on the second page, read closely the
rules on the second and third pages. Then study all of the ques
tions from the fourth to the fourteenth pages, inclusive. Particu
larly go over and study the questions on page 5 and write down on
a separate piece of paper the number of the questions on that
page which indicate what business or avocation you have hereto
fore followed. Do not write anything or make any marks what
ever on any page of the questionnaire. Be ready after close study
to answer ail these questions as promptly as possible.
Dependency. , If you are married, be sure to know the date of
your marriage, when the ceremony was performed, and by whom.
Also know exactly the amount of taxes you have paid during the
last twelve months, and the name of the collector to whom the
same was paid. Giving separately the amount paid on real estate
and the amount paid on personal property.
The place for you to Receive Assistance. We will be ready at
all times, on the second day after the first questionnaires are
mailed by the Local Board, to render you this assistance in the
grand jury room at the Court House in Cartersville from 8:30
o’clock A. M. until 4 o’clock P. M.
Door Keeper. You will go to the grand jury room and show
your envelope and the postmark on it to the door keeper, and if it
is dated the day immediately previous you will have to come bade
the next day. If it is dated more than two days previous, you
will have to wait until all the men called for that day/have finished
their qeustionnaire. If it is dated two days before the day you
present it to the door keeper, he will instruct you what room to go
to to secure your exact weight and height, for the determination
of which you will have proper assistance, and then when you re
turn to the door keeper with a slip of paper showing you have
your exact weight and heighth, he will give you a card with a
number on it. These cards are numbered from 1 to 100, and the
first that come in the morning with the proper envelope and the
proper paper of weight and heighth, obtained here, will secure the
first cards, and all registrants will be given assistance in the exact
order of the number of their cards.
When you receive your number you will come to the grand
jury room, and, if any of the assistants are not busy with some
other registrant, one of them will take the matter up with you and
finish it for you at that sitting. If all of the assistants are busy,
you will be requested to wait outside until your turn comes.
In case you bring relatives, employers or friends with you for
the purpose of making supporting affidavits, ask them to sit in
the court room until you have finished with your questionnaire
before your assistant, and then we will give you an opportunity to
bring them in to the grand jury room and having them sworn at
t;:e same time you are sworn to your answers.
Kindly read these rules elosely and your questionnaire more
closely, and be on hand, if you desire our assistance, free of
charge, on the second day after the date postmarked on the en
velope in which your questionnaire is enclosed, and- assist us all
yo ucan in answering all questions properly and promptly, so that
we can expedite the matter as quickly as possible with as little
inconvenience as possible to yourself and the other loyal citizens
of our countv.
Read questionnaire. Do not come to our office. Go to
the Court House.
This December 10, 1917.
C. C. PITTMAN
W. T. TOWNSEND
WATT H. MILNER
O. T. PEEPLES
J. T. NORRIS
threshold cf patriotic opportunity kiWr
it aside and do not permit yourself to
become fussed. :
The stalwart men and Wolnei]
middle age ara to keep the heme s„
burmnr during the
now at hand. ae *‘
They are to raise the crops, Bl)eerf
the factroies, collect the taxes, or^
IZ f * e h ° me conserve^
wheat and meat and sugar, back
the Red Cross, peddle th’ e Liberty
Bonds, write the letters, pack the com
fort kits, and stand by for orders at
all times.
If a busy worker feels some one tue
ging at his coat tail, the thing to l
is to kick straight back and kick hard
but do not waste time in lookin*
around. *
By the way, here is an important tin
for every man past 30. Do not tell
around that you would be keen to en
list if you were just a little younger
Some of the men just under 30 win
have tehir doubts, and even thn SO „.i,
believe you will not find entertainment
in your conversation.