Newnan herald & advertiser. (Newnan, Ga.) 1909-1915, October 02, 1914, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextNEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER VOL. L. NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1914. NO. 1 In Our New Quarters We are now established in our new quarters on the corner of Jefferson and Madison streets, and extend a cordial invitation to our friends to drop in and see us. We are beginning now to replenish our stocks in preparation for the fall trade, and shall be “ready with the goods” to supply ev erything in our line that may be needed. We advise our friends to keep cool and not get demoralized on account of the war in Eu rope. Ours is a great Government, and will provide means to take care of the South’s cotton crop. Be of good cheer. Everything will turn out right in the end. MASTIC PAINT A Lesson in Real Economy Take two houses—both alike— Spend about $50 to MASTIC-PAINT one— Let the other go unpainted— Offer them both for sale— You’ll wonder why the unpainted house finds no buyer at even $500 less than the MASTIC-PAINTED house will bring. At the beginning both houses represented equal value. The Lesson'. A few gallons of MASTIC PAINT properly applied at the right time greatly increases the value of your property. Your building needs painting Right Now, but don’t use keg- lead or hand-mixed paints. It may be cheaper at the 3tart, but is costly and unsatisfactory in the end. For Real Economy use MASTIC PAINT More than Forty years the Standard of Excellence |7' T) XT' Ask for beautifully illustrated book "l Ionics and How to IT Iv IZj Eh Paint Them" and color chart showing 4} different color mmmmmmaMmimmimam combinations. Visit this store and let us tell YOU all about the merits of MASTIC PAINT. W. S, ASKEW COMPANY Newnan, Ga. tShe Kind That Laju“ CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY CO. CURRENT SCHEDULES. ARRIVE FROM Griffin 11:10A. m. ChatEauooga 1 ;40 v. m. Cedartown t :.*9 a . h . Columbus 9:05 a m. 7:17 p. m. depart for Griffin lUjr.M. i rrifltn 4 a. M. Chattanooga 11 :l» A. M. Cedartown. . 7:17 v. m Columbus. . . 7:40 A. M. 5:15 y w OpTOBER. October a trows th«» woodlntid o’or With many a brilliant color; The world is brighter thnn before Wiry should our hearts bo duller .’ Sorrow and the scnrlet leaf. Sad thoughts and sunny weather! Aii, me!—this glory and thia brief Agree not well together. This is the passim? season —this The time when friends are flying; And lovers now, with many a kiss. Their long farewells are sighing; Why is earth so gayly dreat? This pomp the autumn beareth A funeral seems, where every guest A bridal garment weareth. Each one of us. perclmnce. may here. On some blue morn hereafter. Return to view the gaudy year. But not with boyish laughter;— We shall then be wrinkled men, Our brows with silver laden. And thou this glen mayst seek again, But nevermore a maiden! Nature, perhaps, foresees that Spring Will touch her teeming bosom. And that a few brief months will bring The bird, the bee, the blossom; Ah! those forests do not know. Or would less brightly wither The virgin that adorns them so Will never more come hither! —[Thomas William Parsons. Old newspapers for sale at this office at 25c. per hundred. Give us a trial order on job printing. Laundry Lists for sale here. THE LAST WAR. A MESSAGE TO THE UNITED STATES. H. G. Wells, in The Metropolitan. The cause of a war and the object of a war are not necessarily the same. The cause of this war is the invasion of Luxemburg and Belgium. We declared war because we were bound by treaty to declare war. We have been pledged to protect the integrity of Belgium since the kingdom of Belgium has ex isted. If the Germans had not broken the guarantees they shared with us to respect the neutrality of these little states, we should certainly not be at war at the present time. The fortified eastern frontier of France could have been held against any attack without any help from us. We had no obliga tions and no interests there. We were pledged to France simply to protect her from a naval attack by sea, but the Germans had already given us an un dertaking not to make such an attack. It was our Belgian treaty and the sud den outrage on Luxemburg that precip itated us into this conflict. No power in the world would have respected our flag or accepted our national word again if we had not fought. So much for the immediate cause of the war, from the British standpoint. But now we come to t.he object of this war. We began to fight because our honor and our pledge obliged us; but so soon as we are embarked upon the fighting we have to ask ourselves what is the end at which our lighting aims? We cannot simply put the Ger mans hack over the Belgian border and tell them not to do it again. We find ourselves at war with that huge milita ry empire, with which we have been doing our best to keep the peace since first it arose upon the ruins of French imperialism in 1971. And war is mortal conflict. We have now either to destroy or be destroyed. Wehave notsoughtthis reckoning, we have done our utmost to avoid it, but now that it has been forced upon us it is imperative that it should be a thorough reckoning. This is a war that touches every man and every home in each of the combatant countries. It is a war, as Mr. Sidney Low has said, t ot of soldiers, but of whole peoples. And it is a war that must be fought to Buch a finish that ev ery man in each of the nations engaged understands what has happened. There can be no diplomatic settlement that will leave German imperialism free to explain away its failure to its people and start new preparations. We have to go on until we are absolutely done for, or until the Germans as a people know that they are beaten and are con vinced that they have had enough of war. We are fighting Germany. But we are fighting without any hatred of the German people. We do not intend to destroy either their freedom or their unity. But we have to destroy an evil system of government and mental and material corruption that has got hold of the German imagination and taken possession of German life. We have to smash the Prussian imperialism as thoroughly as Germany in 1X71 smashed the rotten imperialism of Napoleon ill. And also we have to learn from the failure of that victory to avoid a vin dictive triumph. The Prussian imperialism has been for forty years an intolerable nuisance in the earth. Ever since the crushing of the French in 1X71 the evil thing has grown and cast its spreading shadow over Europe. Germany has preached a propaganda of ruthless force and politi cal materialism to the whole uneasy world. “Blood and iron,” Bhe boasted, was the cement of her unity, and al most as openly the little, mean, aggres sive statesmen and professors who have guided her destinies to this present con flict have professed cynicism, an utter disregard of any ends but nationally Belfish ends, as though it were a religion. Evil just as much as good may bn made into a cant. Physical and moral bru tality has, indeed, become a cant in the German mind, and spread from Germa ny throughout the world. I could wish it were possible to say that English and American thought had altogether es caped its corruption. But now at last we shake ourselves free and turn upon this boasting wickedness to rid the world of it. The whole world is tired of it. And “Gott!" —Gott so perpet ually invoked—must, indeed, he very tired of it. This is already the vastest war in history. It is a war, not of nations, but of mankind. It is a war to exorcise a world-madness and end an age. And note how this public rottenness has had its secret side. The man who preaches cynicism in his own business transactions had better keep a detec tive and a cash register for his clerks; and it is the most natural thing in the world to find that this system, vthich is outwardly vile, is also inwardly rotten. Beside the kaiser stands the firm of Krupp, a second head to the state; on the very steps of the throne is the ar mament trust, that organized scoun- drelism which has, in its relentless propaganda for profit, mined all the se curity of civilization, bought up and dominated a press, ruled a national lit erature, corrupted universities and sold the Germans bad goods. For, note that all accounts agree as to the poor ness of the German guns and shells. Krupp guns are scarcely better than Krupp diplomacy. Imperialism means tyranny, tyranny means monopoly, mo nopoly means rascality. Consider what the Germans have been, and what the Germans can be. Here is a race which has for its chief fault docility and a belief in teachers and rulers. For the rest, as all who know it intimately will testify, it is the most amiable of peoples. It is natur ally kindly, comfort-loving, child-loving, musical, artistic, intelligent. In count less respects German homes and towns and countrysides are the most civilized in the world. But these people did lose their heads a little after the victories of the sixties and seventies, and there began a propaganda of national vanity and national ambition. It was organ ized by a stupidly forceful statesman; it was fostered by folly upon the throne. It was guarded from wholesome criti cism by an intolerant censorship. It never gave sanity a chance. A certain patriotic sentimentality lent itself only too readily to the suggestion of the flatterer, and so there grew up this monstrous trade in weapons. Gorman patriotism became an “interest,” the greatest of the “interests.” It devel oped a vast advertisement propaganda. It subsidized Navy Leagues and Aerial Leagues, threatening the world. Man kind, we saw too late, had been guilty of an incalculable folly in permitting private men to make a profit out. of the dreadful preparations for war. But the evil was started; the German imagina tion was captured and enslaved. On every other European country that valued its integrity there was thrust the overwhelming necessity to arm and drill —and Btill to arm and drill. Money was withdrawn from education, from social progress, from business enter prise, and art and scientific research, and from every kind of happiness; life was drilled and darkened. So that the harvest of this darkness comes now almost as a relief, and it is a grim satisfaction in our discomforts that we can at last look across the roar and torment of battlefields to the pos sibility of an organized peace. Eor this is now a war for peace. It. aims straight at disarmament. It aims at a settlement that shall stop this sort of thing forever. Every sol dier who fights against Germany now is a crusader against war. This, the great est of all wars, is riot just another war; it is the Last War. England, France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, and all the little countries of Europe, arc heartily sick of war; the Tzar has expressed a pas sionate hatred of war; the most of Asia is unwarlike; the United States has no illusions about war. And never was war begun so joylessly, and never was war begun with so grim a resolution. In England, France, Belgium, Russia, there is no thought of glory. We know we face unprecedented slaughter and agonies; we know that, for neither side will there be easy triumphs nor pranc ing victories; already, after a brief fortnight in that warring sea of men, there is famine as well as hideous butch ery, and soon there must come disease. Can it be otherwise? We face perhaps the most awful winter that mankind has ever faced. But we English and our allies, who did not seek this catas trophe, face it with anger and determi nation rather than despair. Through this war we have to march, through pain, through agonies of the spirit worse than pain, through seas of blood and filth. We English have not had things kept from us. We know what war is. We have no delusions. We have read books that tell us of the stench of battlefields, and the nature of wounds; books that Germany sup pressed and hid from her people. And we face these horrors to make an end of them. There shall be no more kaisers, there shall be no more lvrupps, we are resolved. And not simply the present belliger ents must come into the settlement. All America, Italy, China, the Scandi navian powers, must, have a voice in the final readjustment, and set their hands to the ultimate guarantees. 1 do not mean that they need fire a single shot nor load a single gun. But they must come in. And in particular to the United States do we look to play a part in that pacification of the world for which our whole nation is working, and for which, by the thousand, our men in Belgium are now laying down their lives. The Farmers’ Supply System. Macon Telegraph. There will have to he a big a change in the farmers’ supply system in the South before the Southern cotton-grow ers can emancipate themselves from the all-cotton bondage, or before they can raise other products besides cotton for the market. The farmers are large ly slaves to the system. They would probably change conditions if they had their way about it, but the merchants and bankers are also tied to the system as inexorably as are the farmers. When a farmer pitches his crop in the spring of the year and begins to buy fertilizers and provisions to “run" him, the merchant begins at once to inquire about his cotton crop. Whatever he buys is sold him on the basin of cotton. That is because the Southern people have allowed themselves to have only one big money crop, though they have the soil and climate that will raise at most anything that grows. The South ern merchant will send West to buy corn to sell to the farmer to feed his mules while they plow his cotton. The merchant could handle the farmer’s corn, oats and hay just hh well. The main trouble, however, has been that the farmer docs not put his grain and feed products up in marketable shape. His corn, in days gone by, was grown from nubbins, the result being that the grains were small, ill-shaped and not attractive to the buyer. The mills would hardly have such corn for milling purposes. The campaign for seed selection and the work of the Corn Club Boys have changed all of that. Georgia farmers are now growing as good corn as can bo got anywhere. But the farmers are still not growing corn for market. What little they have to sell is handled in old burlap hags, formerly used for oats or salt, some holding five bushels and others a bushel and a half or two bushels. There is no regularity or system about the manner in which it is handled. The average merchant would probably give as much for local corn as for the Western pro duct if he could get it in the same mar ketable shape. That is one reason why the farmers ought to club together and see that their corn and other feed crops are put in marketable condition when offered for sale. If there were grain ware houses in all of the Georgiu townB where corn and other grain could be ta ken, graded like cotton, and put up in new bags, it would encourage the far mers to raise more grain, hecause it would then become a money crop. It would be better for the merchants in the long run, though they would lose the profit which the farmer now has to pay them for the Western product. The Georgia Chamber of Commerce has done a splendid work in attracting attention to Georgia products und en couraging the people of Georgia to buy Georgia-raised produce. Now let that organization take the initiative in hav ing warehouses established all over Georgia for handling grain, as well as cotton. Fix it so the farmer can get money for his corn, whether he has much or little to sell. Fix it so Georgia mills can get selected milling corn without having to send West for it. Let the supply merchant help the far mer change f.ia credit system. It will not only help the farmer, hut will help the merchant, and will bo worth big things to the State. It will make cot ton King, indeed, for the farmer will raise cotton as his surplus crop and whatever it brings will be the net profit from his farm. What Would You Do 7 There are many times when one man questions another’s actions and motives. Men act differently un der different circumstances The ques tion is, what would you do right now if you had a severe cold? Could you do better than to take Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy? It is highly recom mended by people who have UBed it for years and know its value. Mrs. O. E, Sargent, Peru, Ind., says, "Chamber lain’s Cough Remedy is worth its weight in gold and I take pleasure in recommending it.” For sale by all dealers. A little practice of religion cures a lot of philosophy about it. Cores Old Sores, Other Remedies Won’t Core T lie worst cases, no mittrr of how lonn standing, ar- cured by thr wonderful, old reliable Dr. Porter's Antiseptic Healing Chi. It relieves Pain aud Heals at the saute time. 25c, 50c, (LOO. The Day of Great Things.” Meriden (Conn.) Morning Record. The President of the United States will make no campaign speeches. In an addross to the people as simple and elegant in its English as it was force ful anti irresistible in its logic, the Chief Executive outlined his plans for the immediate future. “This is the day of great things,” and the President, actuated by the high spirit of patriotism which has domina ted his actions ever since he assumed the guidance of the nation’s affairs, is determined that the country shall not suffer through even a temporary diver sion from its interests. President Wilson has been tried as perhaps no President since Abraham Lincoln. He has been forced to put in the background the most sacred per sonal affairs that he might serve the nation to the utmost of his mental ability and physical strength. Ho was not permitted even the time for the expression of grief over the loss of hi3 best beloved, which falls to the lot of the humblest citizen. Grim duty beck oned him and he answered. Now, all his energies are being bent toward saving his country from the snares through which she might easily fall through incompetency. Politics fades into insignificance in view of the weighty things which are transpiring in Europe, and which indirectly affect the United States. President Wilson believes in personal service and self-sacrifice, if necessary. To that end he is making politics sub servient to the great questions which daily clamor for solution. The President’s appreciation of the eternal fitness of things will he appre ciated by friend and foe alike. It is a relief to know that in these days of stress and strain the pettiness of poli tics is not to be aired by the Chief Ex ecutive of the United States, and that personal ambition is not to have prece dence over service to country. Drop a Tear for Bleeding Europe. We see thousands of assemblages, and hear the appeals of orators; w.- see the pale cheeks of women and the flushed faces of men; and in those as semblages wo all Bee the tlead whose dust we have covered with (lowers. We lose sight of them no more. We were with them when they’ r en- listed in the great army of freedom. We see them part from those they love. Some are walking for the last time ir. quiet, woody places with the maidens they adore. We hear the whisperings and the sweet vows of eternal love as they lingeringly part forever. Others are bending over cradles, kissing babes that are asleep. Some are receiving the blessings of old men. Some are parting from mothers, who hold them and press them to their hearts again and again, and say nothing. And some are talking with’wives and endeavoring with brave words, spoker. in old tones, to drive from their hearts the awful fear. We see them part. We see the wife standing in the door with the babe in her arms-standing in the sunlight Bobbing —at the turn of the road a hand waves—she -answers by holding high in her loving arms their child. He is gone, and gone forever. The jury, after long deliberation, seemed unable to agree iri a perfectly clear case. The Judge, thoroughly ex asperated at the delay, said: "1 discharge this jury.” One sensitive juror, indignant at what he considered a rebuke, faced the Judge. “You can’t discharge me!” he said, with a tone of conviction. "And why not?” inquired the Judge, in surprise. “Because,” announcetl the " juror, pointing to the lawyer for the defense, “I was hired by that man over there!” It's easy to think you are seriou3 when you are only soured. CAN YOU DOUBT IT? When the Proof Can Be so Easily Investigated. When so many grateful citizens of Newnan testify to benefits; derivett from Doan’s Kidney Rills can you doubt the evidence? The proof is not far away—it is aimost at. your door. 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Newnan herald & advertiser. (Newnan, Ga.) 1909-1915, October 02, 1914, Image 1