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r HEBARTOW TRIBUNE The CARTERSVILLE NEW*. Published Weekly on Thursday RIBUNK PUBLISHING CO. (incorporatbd) Subscription Rates: $1 50 per year. 75c for six months. 40c for three months. Advertising rates furnished upon /■plication. Proper notice of deaths will al ways be published without charts is soon as we learn of them, but 'ormal obituary notices sent in later •ill be charged for at regular ad rertising rates. We reserve tb* "fht of editing all items published. Entered as second-class matter, 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 ■* r ' ' rfcw— Fsrk (:'*■■■ • '• W* 1 Wwh are a safe SecMi'l f ' .rjHa are ■* be hit ■ ■ r>e*4.. 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.