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NEWNAN, FRIDAY. AUG. 28.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
1M APVANC*.
Do Women Have Privileges ?
I>orot?iy Dix, in Atlanta (l«or*i«n.
An irate gentleman writes me a let
ter in which he asks this question:
"If women demand suffrage, what
right have they to expect the privileges
of their sex?"
1 will answer that question with
pleasure if my correspondent will tell
me what are the privileges of my sex.
1 have been hearing of the privileges
of being a woman all my life, but I’ve
never seen one or enjoyed one, and I'm
dying of curiosity to know of what
these legendary emoluments consist.
Oh, I know that you are going to say
that women and children go first into
the lifeboats when there iB a wreck
at sea. At least they sometimes do,
for if you mention the Titantic I will
counter with J,a Bourgoyno, where the
men cut off the hands of the women
who caught on to the sides of the life
boats, thereby endangering those al
ready in.
However, let’s concede the life raft
as acoring one for the skirt. It really
doesn’t matter. Few women ever go
to sea at all, and disasters at sea are so
very rare that the privilege of being res
cued in a shipwreck doesn’t cut any ice
with the vast majority of the sex. If
that privilege was taken away from us
entirely we would never know it.
In all sober earnestnees, brother,
what are the privileges of being a wo
man?
Nature giveB a woman none. On the
contrary, she handicaps her by making
woman subject to every disease and
pain that can afflict man, and then
throwing in a few special ailmentH of
her own, and curBiag her with a ner
vous system keyed up to the ninth
power. When you wish for a strong,
healthy body you never wish to be a
woman.
In only a few States does the law
give a woman the privilege of making
a will and disposing of property that
she may have inherited from her father
or accumulated herself. In Texas and
I^ouisiana a huBband has the right to
collect his wife’s wages if she works
outside of the home, and in only twelve
or thirteen States does the law give a
mother the privilege of being equal
guardian with her husband to the child
she brought into the world.
.. Certainly in the eyes of the law it is
bo privilege to be a woman,
Society gives a woman no privileges.
The world draws its skirts aside from
the woman who sins, and asks her
partner in guilt to dinner. A man may
be known to be a profligate and to have
a dark and lurid paBt, and he may
marry the sweetest and purest girl in
the community and be received with
open arms by society, but let a woman
so much as soil the hem of her petti
coat and she is pushed down into the
mire. If you stumble on the straight
and narrow road, your petticoats nre
no protection to you.
HusinesB offers no privileges to the
woman. It beats her down to the last
cent that her poverty makes her work
for. and it wrings every ounce of labor
out of her that it can get,.
Even a philanthropist like Mr. Ford,
when he comes to paying his male and
female labor, discriminates against the
woman. Look at the haggard-faced
women of the sweatshops and factories,
look at the worn and weary Rrmy of
shop girls, look at the bent old women
scrubbing out office buildings on their
knees, and see if you think it is any
privilege to be a woman when you have
to earn your living.
Worse thun that, a man has only to
fight his battle with poverty, but
every young and goodlooking woman
who has to earn her own bread and
butter has to battle with one hand for
a livelihood while she defends her hon
or with the other.
ltut it's in the home, my correspon
dent will say, that a woman’s privileges
are so great. She can stay at home,
safe and sheltered, while the man goea
out into the world to struggle for her
support. Perhaps Mrs. Astor is less
vexed with cares than Mr. Astor, and
Mrs. Vanderbilt has a rope of pearls
while Mr. Vanderbilt only has pearl
shirt studs. With the lot of millionaires
most of us have as little to do as we
have with the lot of the people in Mars.
In the average family it's a mother’s
privilege to bear the children as well as
work for them, to walk the colic, to sit
up at night nursing the sick, to stay at
home and get the balance of the family
ready for their excursions, to have the
shabbiest clothes, and eat the back of
the chicken. That's her privilege in
the home.
In the ordinary family the hoys are
given pocket money and an allowance.
The girls are not. The boys are sent
to college. The girls are not. If the
girls go out to work, they are expected
to turn over their pay envelopes to
their mothers. The boys are not. The
girls are expected to help in the house
work. The boys are not, and when it
comes to marrying, the boys have the
privilege of picking out their life part
ners, while the girls have not.
What are the privileges of being a
woman? I pause fer reply.
Financing Cotton Crop Matter of
Importance.
St. Louiii Republic.
The first question in connection with
the financing of the cotton crop, with
our best customers over seas at war
with each other, concerns the magni
tude of the job.
Our four heaviest purchasers among
foreign nations are England, Germany,
France and Italy. In 1918 they todk
from us raw cotton worth as follows:
Great Britain $221,000,000
Germany 144,000,000
France 04,000,000
Italy 80,000,000
Total $450,000,000
How much of this vast sum will it be
necessary to provide in order to save
the Southern planter from serious em
barrassment?
The first effect of the interruption of
trade relations with Europe will be a
wonderful quickening of the American
cotton manufacturing industry. Con
servative St. Louis bankers familiar
with the cotton market estimate that
the American mills will be able to take
care of $120,000,000 worth more raw
cotton this year than last. We have
been in the habit of shipping large
quantities of cotton abroad, which we
subsequently bought hack in the form
of cotton goods. We must, in time of
war, narrow the range of our selections
in favor of the product of American
mills.
There are two unknown quantities
here which may work to our help as
well as to our harm. One is the dura
tion of the war. The experts say it
will be short and sharp. If they are
right the merchant ship may once more
have the right-of-way over the man-of-
war before January, and cotton croBB
the seas as freely as it did last year.
The other unknown quantity is the
power of England to absorb cotton as
things are. As The Republic has al
ready remarked, it is wholly unlikely
that the cotton mills will furnish many
soldiers. England, whose cotton con
sumption is so large, lies just across
seas from us, and ships may go to her
without passing any hostile coast. The
same thing is true of France, and the
navies of these two powerB are of vast
strength. The first ships that come to
us from thoBe lands will want wheat
and cotton. Even if war continues it
ought to be possible to dispose of some
part of our product over seas.
If our surplus is as large as it was
last year, and our own mills take $120,-
000,000 more than last year, while Eng
land, France and Italy take each half
their usual supply and England’s com
mand of the Channel prevents Germany
from taking any, we shall have dis
posed of all hut $182,000,000 worth of
the $450,000,000 worth which these four
powers bought last year.
In view of the good sense and patri
otism of American bankers, the fact
that cotton is one of those commodities
Which are least subject to deterioration
by storage, and the further fact that
cotton goods in war time are as neces
sary as gunpowder, the prospect surely
does not appear so dark as the pessi
mists would have us believe.
We have considered with care the va
rious schemes for governmental aid to
the cotton-grower. The mere storage
of cotton in warehouses and issuance of
receipts certifying to quality would not
provide any money, and money is what
the grower needs. For the Govern
ment to advance money on the crop di
rectly would be welcome relief to the
grower, but hazardous finance.
Who knows what strains may be
thrown upon our national credit before
Europe is again at peace? Every care
ful reader of the Federal reserve bank
ing Act knows that commercial paper
drawn against cotton may, at the pleas
ure of the Federal reserve board, serve
us collateral security for Federal re
serve notes, with the liability of the
issuing hank coming before that of the
Government. Without doubt, the cot
ton crop of 1914 will he financed with
out undue hardship to the grower or
undue strain upon the financial machin
ery of the country.
Work, and see how well you will be;
work, and see how cheerful you will
be; work, and see how independent you
will be; work, and see how religious
you,will be; for, before you know where
you are, instead of repining over your
bad luck, you will find yourself thank
ful for the blessings you enjoy.
NEWNAN PROOF
Should Convince Every Newnan
Reader.
The frank statement of a neighbor,
tolling the merits of a remedy,
Bids you pause and believe.
The same indorsement
By some stranger far away
Commands no belief at all.
Hero’s a Newnan case.
A Newnan citizen testifies.
Read and be convinced.
H. W. Jennings. 78 Murray St., New
nan. Ga., says: "For several years 1
wassubjeetto attacks of kidney trouble,
coming on after 1 caught cold or ex
erted myself. At such times the Kid
ney secretions were irregular in passage
and 1 had such acute pains that it was
hard for me to do any work that obliged
me to stoop. Since I learned of Doan’s
Kidney Rills, 1 have procured them at
the Lee Drug Co. 1 have never failed
to get relief through theft use."
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan's Kidney Pills—the same that
Mr. Jennings had. Foster - Milhurn
Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
His Mother.
Boston Transcript.
The oldeat emblem of deathless affec
tion is the natural love of a woman for
her child. Maternal love remains, in
deed, a fixed, conventional type, as if
this tender eminence belonged to every
mother.
To illustrate the child’s hold upon the
mother no ordinary instance would be
new; but an incident in the last hours
of a condemned criminal furnishes one
of the crucial cases.
Two days before his execution a tele
gram was brought to him in his cell.
He snatched it and tore it open with an
oath. In an instant a change came
over his sullen face. He threw up his
hands with a cry, and began to weep
and sob. The chaplain took the tele
gram and read these words:
"Your mother is loving you yet.”
The message had come two thousand
mileB. The mother in her distant home
had not heard of her runaway hoy for
three years. The young prodigal had
not changed his name; and one day, in
a brief newspaper mention, she read of
him—a murderer condemned to die. It
was too late to save him. All her
bleeding heart could send him in his
ignominy and ruin was that fond sen
tence.
An anecdote of a wretched-looking
tramp, arrested for vagrancy the other
day in Brooklyn, tells ub, on the other
hand, something »f the hold a mother
has upon her child. When the man was
searched by the officers a Boiled photo
graph of a young woman was found in
his clothing. Beggars’ explanations
usually find a more credulouB audience
outside of the police station, but the
officers heard the tramp’s story and be
lieved it. He declared that the photo
graph was a picture of hiB mother.
‘‘She’s an old woman now,” he said,
“if she’s alive. I’ve carried that pic
ture for many a year. I didn’t follow
the road she marked out for me—the
more shame for me—but her face has
been with me in every State in the Un
ion. 1 wouldn’t part with it for any
thing in the world. Keep it for me end
let me have it when I go.”
Mother love is a holy thing. Pitiful,
and more than pitiful, is the baseness
that will drag it in the mire. But it
outlives even this indignity.
How to Cure a Sprain.
A sprain may be cured in about one-
half the time required by the usual
treatment by applying Chamberlain’s
Liniment and observing the directions
with each bottle. For sale by all
dealers.
The French in Alsace Again Af
ter 40 Years.
New York World.
Far out of proportion to its theoreti
cal military importance, considerable
as that may be, is the news of the
French victory at Altkirch and the easy
occupation of Mulhausen. "Once more
the French are in Alsace!” is the cry
along the boulevards; already every
Frenchman looks forward to the day
when the statue in the Place de la Con
corde that represents Strassburg can
be stripped of its mourning emblems;
and in France the effect of an idea and
an enthusiasm is electrical. An advan
tage that even military theorists would
recognize is the impetus this victory
must give to Alaatian volunteering,
which already was heavy.
For more than forty years Alsace and
Lorraine have been German territory.
The Zabern incident revealed how im
perfectly the repressive legislation for
the Iteichsland had quenched the fires
of French nationalism. The enthusiasm
with which the advancing French sol
diers are received proves how true was
Bismarck's instinct that the enforced
possession of the two provinces would
prove a perpetual source of feud with
France and a fester of discontent with
the empire.
Initial successes in Alsace must not
blind observers to the disparity in the
forces still to be engaged. The Ger
mans will pour against the French in
vasion a tremendous army. It is pos
sible that some Austrian troops have
been made available for the supreme
moment by the slowness of the Rus
sian mobilization and the practical
dropping of the Servian campaign.
But for the moment the French occu
pation in Alsace provides a sensation
and a surprise comparable to the unex
pected firmness of the Belgians in hold
ing the forts about Leige.
A young man and another young man
roomed together. And after they had
.roomed together long enough to wear
each other's things, one of the young
men had to go away on a long trip. He
hoped to come hack, but his stay in far
away parts was rather indefinite, so he
entrusted all that he held dear to his
room-mate.
After he had been gone for about
three months he wired his chum as fol
lows:
"l have had only one letter from my
girl since I left. Are you looking after
her as you promised?”
Promptly the message was answered:
"Sure I am. Six evenings in the
week. What else can you ask?"
How To Give Quinine To Children.
FKBRILINElsthetrade-mnrk name iriven to an
improved Quinine. It is a Tasteless Syrup, pleas
ant to take and does not disturb the stomach.
Children take it and never know it is Quinine.
Also especially adapted to adults who cannot
lake ordinary Qainine. Does not nauseate nor
cause nervousness nor ringing in the h«d. Try
It the next time you need Quinine for any pur
pose. Ask for 2-ounce original package. The
name FLBKILINK is blown in bolUe. 26 cents.
Plans to Protect Surplus Cotton.
St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 22.—Plana for
the protection of the surplus cotton
crop were perfected to-day by a com
mittee appointed yesterday at a meet
ing of the St. Lous Business Men’s
League. Acting on it, Festus J. Wade,
president of the clearing house, will re
port to Secretary of Treasury McAdoo
Monday that the Government need not
concern itself with the financing of the
cotton crop. He will, however, urge
that the St. Louis Federal reserve bank
be opened as soon as possible in order
to facilitate the working of .the St.
Louis plan.
The plan adopted by the committee
provides that merchants in the cotton
StateB who have dealings with St.
Louis wholesalers or manufacturers
store the surplus cotton of their dis
tricts in their own warehouses as far as
possible and send the warehouse re
ceipts to St. Louis wholesalers and
manufacturers. The St. Louis men
then will take the warehouse receipts
to the St. Louis banks, and with these
as security borrow money to be sent to
the cotton States. It is planned that
the banks loan at the rate of $85 a bale.
A surplus cotton for which ware
house facilities cannot be provided in
the cotton districts will be stored as
far as possible in St. Louis. The com
mittee meanwhile will ascertain how
much warehouse space can be obtained
here, and it is estimated that this city
can store at least half million bales.
A large amount, it is expected, can be
placed at Jefferson barracks, a few
miles south of St. Louis.
The Case of L. L. Cantelou.
The case of L. L. Cantelou, Claredon,
Texas, is similar to that of many
others who have used Chamberlain’s
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
He says, “After trying a doctor for
several months, and using different
kinds of medicine for my wife who had
been troubled with severe bowel com
plaint for several months, I bought a
25c. bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. After
using the second bottle she was entire
ly cured.” For sale by all dealers.
A chap went into a barber shop in
the Mile End road to be shaved. The
barber cut him and nicked him and
gashed him. When the job was over
the chap said:
"Give me a drink of water, plea3e.”
"You aren’t going to faint, I hope,”
said the barber, handing him a glass.
“No,” said the man, mildly. “No, I
just want to see if my mouth’ll hold
water.”
— ——
A rich young widow and her weeds
are soon parted.
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The Active Principle of a
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Wonders.
Many pooplo havo marrulod tho way
S. S. S. overcomes skin troubles. Tlio ex
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in the blood and the blood Is really a most
Intricate and extraordinary muss of arteries
and veins.
When* you come to realise that the skin
and the tlesh beneath are composed of a
network of tiny blood vessels you solve the
mystery. • *
There are wonderful medicinal properties
In S. S. S. Hint follow the course of the
blood streams just as naturally as the most
nourishing food elements.
It Is really a remarkable remedy. It
contains one ingredient, the active purpose
of which is in stimulate the tissues to the
healthy selection of its own essential nutri
ment. And tin* medicinal effluents of this
matchless blood purilhr are just as essen
tial to well balanced health as the nutri
tious elements of the meats, grains, fat3
and sugars of our dally food.
Not one drop of minerals or drugs 13 used
in its preparation. Ask for S. s. S. and
just insist upon having it. And if you de
sire skillful advice and counsel upon any
matter concerning the Mood and skin, write
to the Medical Department. The Swift
Specitic Co., f»“i> Swift Bldg., Atlanta, Ga.
Do not allow some sen Inns dork's elo
quence over something “just as good ns
S. S. S. to fool you with the same old
mineral drugs. Beware of all substitutes.
Insist upon S. S. S.
ESTABLISHED 1870
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SOUTHERN MORTGAGE CO,
Capital and Surplus. &100.000.
GOULD BUILDING
10 Decatur Street 9 Edgewood Avenue
Farm Loans
Negotiated throughout the State on
improved farm lands in sums of $1,000
to $100,000 on five years’ time at
reasoable rates.
Our sources of money are practically
inexhaustible. We have a strong line
of customers among individual investors
and Savings Banks and Trust Compa
nies in the North, East and Middle
West, and we number among our cus
tomers the
John Hancock Mutual Lilc Ins. Co.
with assets of more than a hundred
million dollars.
For information call on or write' to
A. H. Freeman
Newnan, Ga.
Whenever
you see an
Arrow think
of Coca-Cola.
Reduction of Fords
Buyers to Share in Profits
Lower prices on Ford cars effective from Aug. 1,
1914, to Aug. 1, 1915, and guaranteed against any
reduction during that time:
Touring Car $490
Runabout 440
Town Car 690
F. O. B. Detroit, all cars fully equipped.
(In the United States of America only.)
Further, we will be able to obtain the maximum efficiency in
our factory production, and the minimum cost in our pur
chasing and sales departments if we can reach an output of
300,000 cars between the above dates.
And should we reach this production, we agree to pay as the
buyer’s share from $40 to $60 per car (on or about Aug. 1,
1915, ) to every retail buyer who purchases a new Ford car
between Aug. 1, 1914, and Aug. 1, 1915.
For further particulars regarding these low prices and profit-
sharing plan, see the
NEWNAN GARAQE
Got Missing Figures
T HE General Manager was presenting
plans for an extension of the factory to
the company’s directors at Detroit. He
found that he had left an estimate sheet in
his desk at the factory. He called up the
factory on the Bell Long Distance Tele
phone. His assistant read the figures to him
and the dire&ors were able to ad without
delay.
Annoying delays are avoided by the use
of the Bell Telephone.
When you telephone—smile
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