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THE NEWNAN HERALD NEWNAN HERALD ' Consolidated with Coweta Advertiser September. 18SG. ' Established 1SG6. » Consolidated with Newnan News January. 1915. t NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1915. Vol. 50—No. 36 AIM INTERVIEW With Afr. Ford [1 he following interview was given by Mr. Ford to one of the aggressive Ford Agents, who returned to his home and gave it to his territory in the following newspaper advertise ment:] This is the Most Important Adver tisement I Ever Caused to Be Published Read Every Word—Then Marvel! On a personal visit to Mr. Henry Ford I broached the subject of a possible Aug. 1 rebate. (The Ford Company announced last year—as you well remember—that if their sales reached 300,000 cars between Aug. 1, 1914, and Aug. 1, 1913, each pur chaser during that period would receive back a refund of $40 to $60.) “Mr. Ford,” I suggested, “Is there anything I can say to our people with regard to the Ford Motor Company’s 300,000 car rebate plan?” “We shall sell the 300,000,” was the quiet reply—“and in 11 months, a full month ahead of Aug. 1.” “Then a refund is practically assured?” “Yes—barring the totally unexpected. We are 50,000 to 75,000 cars behind orders to-day. Factory and branches are sending out 1800 daily.” I then said to Mr. Ford: “If I could make a definite re fund statement we would increase our local sales 500 cars.” “You may say,” was Mr. Ford’s deliberate and significant reply to this—“You may say that we will pay back to each purchaser of a Ford car between Aug. 1, 1914. and Aug. 1, 1915, barring the unforseen, the sum of $5°- You may say that I authorized you to make this statement.” What can we add to the above? $15,000,000 cash coming back to Ford owners! And to prospective Ford owners up to Aug. 1, 1915, it actually means —Ford Touring Cars for $490—less the $50 rebate. Ford Runabouts for $440— less the $50 rebate. What is there left for us to say? Newnan Auto Company NEWNAN, GA. SNAKE OF A MAN. Somebody poisoned my dog to-dny. Though Ho nover did any ono ill; Ami so he is through with his canine play And hlB WQffgloty tail Ih atill. No more shnll 1 walk in the fields, with hint Along at my side to jog. And—I don’t care if my eyes are dim • Somebody poisoned my dog! Ho was homely, 1 know, as a dog could be. And only a mongrel, too; But 1 loved the old fellow and ho loved me, As people and dogs may do. Nothing on earth could disturb his trust Or Ins love and his faith befog, Ami now ho lies hero at my feet, in the dust — Somebody poisoned my dog! He crawled to my side and licked my hand. Ami then with a gasp he died; And —though some people ean’t understand — I patted his head-ami cried! For it isn’t funny to loso a friond From oil thin earthly eog, Ami ho was loyal unto the end Somebody poisoned my dog! I wonder how anyone could have done This poor little thing harm; But hero ho lies—ids race is run- Though his body's still soft and warm. My life is lived on n peaceful plan, My pace is a quiet jog, But—1 wish 1 could find the snako of a man Who poisoned my little dog! THE PANAMA CANAL. The Industrial School Journal. It is said there have been seven rail road and nineteen canal projects pro posed across the Isthmus of Panama. The idea of a ship canal originated with Balboa about 1517, and in 1520 Charles V. ordered a survey, but the church killed it. In 1825 the matter first camo before the United States Government, when Central America took it up with Henry Clay. Ten years later the United States Senate voted to build a canal through Nicaragua. President Uuchanan, in 1857, sent surveyors to the Isthmus. Nine years later a concession was given to a Frenchman named Lucien N. B. Wyse. When the Spanish - American war came on the need of a canal was again apparent, so in 1903 our Government authorized the building of the present canal. On April 1, 1905, Theodore Roosevelt appointed a commission, with Theodore Shonts chairman, and John F. Wallace chief engineer. In June Mr. Wallace resigned, and was succeeded by John F. Stevens. In February, 1007, Mr. Ste vens resigned, and Col. G. W. Goethals was made chief engineer. In 1908 Col. Goethals was given control of the Ca nal Zone, and on April 1, 1914, was ap pointed its first Governor. The water was turned into the canal Oct. 10, 1913. The first ship passed through the canal in August, 1914. It costs $14,000,000 a year to maintain the canal. This is pro vided in tolls at the rate of $1.20 a ton for freight and $1.50 per passenger. It requires 2,500 employees to operate it. The American Government paid the French government $40,000,000 for all its rights and property on the iBthmus. The canal has immense forts at each end and field works for 6,000 soldiers. The 16-inch gun at Perico Island, on the Pacific side, is one of the largest guns ever built. It throws a shell of high explosives 17 miles. It shortens the distance between New York and Sar. Francisco, by ship, 9,000 miles, while Peru and Chile are nearer than New York to San Francis co. It will shorten distances between New York and foreign countries as fol lows: Ecuador, 7,400 miles; Japan, 4,000 miles: Hawaii, 6,600 miles. The building of the canal is consid ered the biggest job ever known. Con cerning the magnitude of the job the Ladies’ Home Journal has this to say— The Panama Canal is the biggest job ever completed by man. By compari son the great pyramid of Cheops and the Chinese Wall are insignificant. The total length of the canal is a fraction over 50 miles. The total cost of the canal is $399,- 863,593. There were 35,000 men employed on the canal. In the blasting in Culebra Cut more dynamite was used in a week than the rest of the world used in a month. The Great Wall of China is 1,500 miles long, about 30 feet high, 25 feet thick at the base and 12 feet thick on top. The rock and dirt taken from the canal would build a wall as high and thick as the Chinese Wall and 2,500 miles in length. All the material excavated from Pan ama would build 5,940 monuments the size of Washington Monument, (55 feet each way at the base and 555 feet high.) These places together would cover 475 acres. All of the material taken out of the canal zone piled in one city block would make a pile 100,000 feet in height, (nearly 19 miles.) The excavations on the Canal Zone would build 63 pyramids the size of the Cheops pyramid. The amount of exca vating done would dig a ditch 10 feet deep and 55 feet wide from New York to San Francisco. The concrete used would make a py ramid 400 feet high with a base cover ing the area ef the Pennsylvania Rail road Terminal at New York (about six city blocks.) The concrete used in Gatun Dam would make 500 solid shafts the size of Washington Monument. If Gatun Dam were loaded into ordi nary two-horso dirt wagons it would make a procession So,000 miles long. There is enough concrete in Gatun Locks to build a wall 8 feet thick and 12 feet high around the entire Slate pf Delaware, or 133 miles in length. Each of the three culverts admitting water to thoGatun Locks is big enougli for a train to run through, or about the size of the Pennsylvania railroad tubes under the Hudson. The hinges of the luck gates at Gat un are the largest in the world. Those holding the gates to the wall weigh al most 37,000 pounds, and those of the protection gates more than 38,000 pounds. The total amount of rock taken from Culebra Cut alone would make a pyra mid 804 feet high and 1,350 on each side of the base. The total length of the boro holes would paBs through the center of the earth from side to side—more than 25,- 000 miles. A train of fiat cars carrying all the excavated material from the canal would encircle the earth four times. A Necessary Task. Savannah Press. The Federal Government has started a campaign which is destined to end the lives of thousands of American citi zens. When the anti-narcotic law was framed it was anticipated by those who fathered it that it would mean death to hundreds of people who might other wise live many years. But it wa3 con ceived with the idea that its operation would bring tho greatest good to the greatest number, and tho realization that the sacrifice had to como some time. This is the law which prevents under a Federal Act tho sale of nar cotics to habitual users of drugs. The same law provides that mor phine, opium, laudanum and even quinine and dover’s powders—the lat ter hitherto considered more beneficial than hurmless—shall not bo furnished by druggists except upon the written order of a physician. And tho samo law declares it to be an act punishablo by a heavy lino for a physician to pre scribe such things to bo taken by an habitual user of drugs of this charac ter. Those who really need an opiate for temporary relief from pain can se cure it if administered by n reputable physician ,but the poor unfortunate who has grown so accustomed to tho use of a bracer of this kind that he ciinnot livo without it, is doomed to die. The Rus sian edict against vodka was merely a passing whim compared to tho sweep ing law that Uncle Sam haB passed against the sale of narcotics. There iB a chance for the physically strong who are confirmed users of “dope, ” because the doctors claim to have a remedy for it. But the remedy is often worse than no cure at all, be cause it brings death as frequently aB it does emancipation. The physically infirm drug user of to-day has nothing to look forward to but a quick end to conclude his misery. For the next few months, perhapB for the next year, the mortality among drug users will be very large. All of us will be hearing every day or so of the taking off of acquaintances whose death will he a great surprise. They are the victims of the new order. They cannot live without stimulants, the purchase of which is forbidden, and they cannot survive the drastic treat ment which is said to effect a cure. And so the end comes surely and quick ly. They are sacrifices upon tho altar of tho theory as old as government itself: “The greatest good to the great est number.” It has been suggested by some that there should have been more warning given by the Government before put ting such a far-reaching law into effect. A warning would have done no good. The users of habit-forming drugs would have laughed at a warning. They had been warned too often in the past and noth ing had come of the warnings. Uncle Sam is performing a painful but neces sary duty in cutting olT the supply of deadly drugB from everybody. China tried to temporize with the opium users by giving notice of the enforcement of a drastic law some time in the future, and when the law was put into effect there were just as many thousand un fortunates to deprive of their solace as there would have been had no warning at all been given. The Russian method of fighting vodka and the American manner of combating the use of habit forming drugs seem the only effective way. Only a Few Can Go. Those who are so fortunate that ex pense does not have to be considered are now going to health resorts to get rid of the impurities in the Bystem that cause rheumatism, backache, swollen, aching joints and Etiff, painful muscles. If you are one of those who cannot go, yet feel that you need relief from such pain and misery, try Foley’s Kidney Pills. They restore the kidneys to healthful activity and make you feel weii and strong. J. F. Lee Drug Co. Love Your Wife. If you love your wife let her know it now and then by acts and words of praise and kindness. Don’t wait un til she is sick or dying to bring the fact to her notice. If your wife has an in strument ask her to play for you some times, and sit by and turn the leaves, and when she has finished thank her. You were not backward to confess your love once. You did not think it silly or sensual to do so then. Why should it he so now? Go home and press a kiss upon her lips as tenderly as you were wont to do in your lovers’ days, and see if tho tell-tale blood don’t rush to her cheek and happy tears to her eyes. We wonder how many wives there are in our land to-day that have not heard their husbands Bay for a scoro of years, “I love you.” Oh, we know there uro some that hunger and thirst for love tokens. Husbands, if you havo a happy home keep tho foun dation of your love pure anil sweet. She left all to join her destiny with yours, to make your home happy and meet your wishes. So treat your wife with tho tenderness you wore wont to troat her in tho days you sought to win her for your own. You may have for gotten tile past, but she has not. May be she is wearing out her life to make your homo cozy and comfortable and pleasant for you. Let her know some times you appreciate her services. Think of tho manly tenderness that in youth gained her affections. Her charms may not bo as great as then, hut remem ber tho thousand acts of kindness that ought to have strengthened your friend ship. A true wife wishes to feel sure hIio is precious to her husband, use ful and convenient, but dear. Your wife will stand by you through storm and sunshine, if you will let her. We say to you, husbands, love yrur wives as you do yourself; continue through life the same. Take this as your part and do better. Do not wait until too lute. Recently a metropolitan paper printed an item about a man who kept a lamp in hiH window for forty years to guide his sweetheart to his Westorn home. She never came, hut tho lamp burned brightly just tho same. His faith did not falter, He had implicit trust. Though sho had been drowned at sea, yet every night he trimmed his lump and set it as a beucon for her feet. All over the land such beacon lights are burning, even in our little inland towns, far from tho surge of the rolling sea. When once this light of love is kindled, the winter winds blow in vain to ex tinguish it. When the storm is at its height, when the fog gathers tho thickest, then it is that tho faithful light burns the clearest. The rayB from this lone lamp have more of strength and beauty than could be packed into the crown jewels of an em peror. To Sleep Well in Summer. Slight inflammation of the bronchial tubes causes a distressing cough and makes refreshing sleep impossible. Fo ley’s Honey and Tar Co pound covers raw, inllamed, irritated surfaces with a soothing, healing coating and stops that annoying tickling, relieving the racking, tiring cough. Take this splen did cough medicine with you on summer trips. It is good for coughs, colds, croup, bronchial affections and la grippe coughs. J. F. Lee Drug Co. "Run upstairs, Tommy, and bring baby’s nightgown,” said Tommy’s mother. “Don’t want to,” said Tommy. “Oh, Tommy, if you are not kind to your new little Hister she'll put on her wings and fly buck to heaven.” “Well, let her put on her wings and fly upstairs for her nightgown.” A WOMAN’S BACK. The Advice of This Newnan Woman is of Certain Value. Many a woman’s back has aches and pains. Ofttimes ’tis the kidneys’ fault. That’s why Doan’s Kidney Fills are so effective. Many Newnan women know this. Read what one haH to say about it: Mrs. K. S. Lane, 25 Robinson street, Newnan, says: ’ My back ached con stantly and it was lame and sore, especially in the morning. I could not do uny stooping or lifting on account of dizziness. The kidney secretions were unnatural and the least cold set tled on my kidneys and made my con dition worse. I doctored and used different medicines with no results. I finally took Doan’s Kidney pills, pro cured from the J. F. Lee Drug Co., and they soon relieved all signs of kidney trouble and strengthened my back. Price 50 cents, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy— get Doan’s Kidney Pills— the same that Mrs. Lane had. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. If You are troubled with heartburn, gases and a distressed feeling after eating take a Dyspepsia Tablet before and after each meal and.you will obtain prompt relief. Sold only by us, 25a John R. Cnlu Drug Co.