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THE NEWNAN HERALD
NEWNAN HERALD I Connolldsted with Coweta Advertiner leptember, 1886.1
BsUbliihtd I860. I Consolidated with Newnan News January. 1915. f
Newnan News January, 1915.
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1915.
Vol. 50—No. 44
FARMER’S
Supply Store
We wish to thank our customers and friends for
their loyal support and kindnesses shown us since
we moved into our new store. We are now better
prepared than ever to serve them. We have clean,
commodious quarters and a new, clean stock of
goods throughout. Plenty room to take care of our
friends’ packages. Also, ample hitching grounds
for stock, as well as for parking vehicles.
Our line of shoes consists of the best work shoes
made, as well as fine shoes and oxfords—all new
stock. We buy direct from the manufacturer, get
ting the best that can be bought for the money.
We carry also a full line of staple dry goods.
"Headlight” overalls we claim to be the best
made, and we sell them.
Work pants for men and boys.
Everything to eat for man and beast.
DeSoto flour, the very best for the price. Every
sack guaranteed. Buy it and try it.
Cuba Molasses.
We buy in large lots the following articles, and
can sell them at wholesale prices—
Flour, Starch, Snuff, Soap, Soda, Tobacco,
Tomatoes, (canned,) Lard, Matches, Coffee.
Help out your feed bill by sowing peas and sor
ghum. We have peas and sorghum seed for sale.
Sorghum seed, Red Top, Orange and Amber.
Scovil hoes, handle hoes, grain cradles, barbed
wire, hog wire, poultry wire.
Come to our store, rest here, store your bundles,
and drink ice water with us. We will enjoy having
you do this.
T. G. FARMER &
'Phone 147.
Corner Madison and Jefferson Streets.
We have 1,000 Champion spark plugs, 50c each.
Best Ford plug in the world.
Newnan Auto Co.
T. S. PARROTT
Insurance—All Branches
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r Fire Association, of Philadelphia
Fidelity and Casualty Co., of Hew York
American Surety Co., of New York
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co.,
of Newark, N. J.
14 1-2 Greenuille st., Ouer H. C. GlouerCo■
WHAT MATTERS IT?
Whnt matter* it that nil tho skioH were dark,
And black the night, and tonne?
With morning came the hinging of the Inrk
And joy for rocompentte!
What matters It that ever, day by day.
Up rugged alopea wo fare?
Do not Lovo’h rosea bloaaom by the way
And aweeton all the air?
Life's pathway is a toilsome one, 1 know.
Thick-strewn with many a thorn;
But oh, the joyance of the noontide glow
And rosy smile of morn!
Full oft the footsteps falter on the road
And slacken near the goal.
But one clear bird-song seems to lift the head
And cheers the fainting soul.
And so what boots it. though the skies be durk.
And black the night, and tense.
Since morning brings the singing of the lark
And joy for recompense?
One day of golden summer amply pays
For winter’s Btorm and sting;
Ont* brief hour of pleasure well outweighs
Long weeks of sorrowing!
Second-hand Cars
Two Overland Roadsters.
One Overland Touring Car.
Two Ford Touring Cars.
All in good shape. Will sell cheap.
SEE US FOR FORD CARS
Germany’s Machiavelian Diplomacy.
C. C. Anderson, in Macon Telegraph.
It has been said that Germany began
the present war for a purpose, accord
ing to plans laid by Bismarck in 1872.
The purpose of this war was and is the
subversion of England. Everything
points that way. To effect this sub
version, a big foreign trade, a big
mercantile marine and a big fleet of
battleships were necessary. Bismarck
was shrewd and pliable, like all poli
ticians. When he had power he was as
inflexible as steel; when his victim was
strong and obstinate, he could create a
diversion, like a mother cajoling an
angry babe. He reconciled France to
the defeat of Sudowa. He lulled
England to sleep on the acquisi
tion of Schleswig-Holstein. Russia was
quieted as to Alsace-Loraine by having
her attention diverted to China.
Prussia consolidated the German Em
pire, organized the finest army on the
globe and built a formidable navy, all
in twenty-five years.
During the process of these prepara
tions England found her hands full by
the Boer war and the threat of in
surrection in India. All this was in
stigated by Germany. At tho same
time France was given a ball to play
with. She was encouraged to make en
croachments in Tunis and Morocco,
This would excite the jealousy of Italy
and insure full occupation for Italy and
France for the next thirty years. But
Italy got too jealous. She seized Tri
poll, and that act came near tearing up
Germany’s playhouse. It brought
about bad feeling in the Triple Al
liance. Russia, the finest conjurer in
diplomacy the world ever saw, was
beaten into imbecility by the Germans
at her own game. Russia was instiga
ted to have aspirations in the far East.
She was encouraged to make en
croachments in Manchuria. This acted
like hot iron in the skin of Japanese
jealousy, but Japan was afraid of
Russia and kept quiet.
Again Russia was nudged and Ger
many suggested that she try some en
croachments in Korea on the Yalu river,
In the meanti no Japan was urged by
Germany to get busy. This scheme
worked beautifully. While Russia was
thus engaged in tho far East Germany
was busy in the near East. She was
exploiting Turkey, building railroads
reorganizing the Turkish army and fur
niHhing officers to command them. She
had more than one clash with English
interests in Turkey while pushing her
lines to the Persian Gulf.
Scheldt and Kiel canal, by the En
glish navy, ami no longer counts as
a factor in the struggle. In fact,
the submarine has completely neutral
ized and supplanted the battleship, and
these fleets Hro. mere offsets to each
other. This little sea devil can knock
tho monster battleship out with one
torpedo, and the big ship has no more
Bhow in a contest with one than a rab
bit in the jaws of a bulldog. Sub
marines now have a radius of 1,000
miles. They Rro making them with a
radius of 2,000 miles. One German
submarine crossed the North Sea,
traversed the Atlantic, entered the
Straits of Gibraltar, motored the full
length of the Mediterranean fleets into
the Dardanelles and never asked for a
“handout” or a drink of water on the
way. Why, those little sea crabs can
sail around tho globe, and don’t cost
one-twentieth of the price of a battle
ship.
Battleships are obsolete. Tho com
ing navy is one big fast gun cruiser of
,000 tonB and the omnipotent sub-
n arine.
Turkey controlled Russia’s outlet
from the Black Sea. She lay athwart
the route of England to India and she
owned the shores of the Persian Gulf.
If German influence dominated Turkey
without let or hindrance from England
and Russia, it would only be a question
of time when Germany would dominate
India herself, as well as Egypt and the
Red Sea. Japan whipped Russia and
brought on a change of heart in her
feelingB toward England. Russia had
long indulged the thought that England
was the enemy to be dreaded. The
war with Japan taught her that she
had been the plaything of Germany.
While she was scheming and playing
the rascal with China, Germany wae
equally busy playing the devil with
Russia’s Black Sea trade and her in
fluence in Turkey.
Englmd and Russia had a sudden
inspiration. They both saw at once
that they must get together. The re
sult was the Triple Entente, in which
France was the third party. Every
one of them had been deceived so
easily and successfully that the Ger
man foreign ofllce became arrogant and
contemptuous toward the three boobies.
All this time Germany was turning
out battleships bo fast that in a short
time she had the second best navy in
the world. England could only keep
pace with the rapidly growing German
fleet by building two battleships to
Germany’s one. This preserved the
ratio of power that ootaimd in the be
ginning. The war ia on; Russia has do
fleet; France has a good one, but it is of
no UBe to her. She has never cut any
figure in the world’s history with her
fleet. Germany's fleet is bottled up
in the Bight of Heligoland, the
Wants Our Congressman to Get Busy
Buena Vista l'atriot.
Cotton is not contraband. Hence the
South has the right to ship her cotton
to any port she chooses without moles
tation.
When England saw that the price of
cotton waB going higher Bhe issued an
order to the effect that after March 11
no cotton would be permitted to be
shipped to the countries with which Bhe
is at war. The result has been that
cotton has gone down at least $10 a
bale.
The North haB no complaint to make
against England on account of her ac
tion, for the reason that tho manufac
tureraof that section will be enabled to
iuy their cotton a great deal cheaper.
Tho Southern cotton manufacturers
have no cause of complaint for the Haine
reason. Thu Southern cotton-grower is
tho only one who haB reason to com
plain.
For tho past several weeks tho fur
mers have been too busy to give the
matter attention. They aro now be
ginning to he aroused over tho situation
In Judge Frank Park’s district (tho
Second) the farmers are petitioning the
President to take immediate action in
the matter. Our neighbor, Judge Chas
Crisp, (of the Third,) is becoming ac
tive in behalf of the farmers of his dis
trict. In Alabama the farmers are alive
to the situation, and the result is that
their Congressmen are beginning to do
more in their behalf.
In our district we have heard of no
move on the part of our Congressman
At the outbreak of the European war
we understood that President Wilson
sent for Congressmen Underwood and
Adamson and sought their advice as to
the cotton situation. Underwood was
invited for the reason that he was Dem
ocratic leader of the HouBe. Adamson
because he was chairman of the great
Committee on Interstate and Foreign
Commerce.
We mention this for the purpose of
showing that Judge Adamson is in a po
sition to do the farmers great good, if
he would only try.
During the last Congressional cam
paign, when it looked like Marion coun
ty was sure to go against the veteran
Congresaman, the Judge’s friends
pleaded with the people to --end him
back so that he could use his great ex
perience and influ -nee in behalf of the
cotton-grower, and succeeded in carry
ing the county by 14 votes.
Now it is up to Judge Adamson to
make good. It is true that the State
Department has had some correspond
ence with England on the subject, hut
there is no earnestness or ginger in the
proceeding.
Mississippi Raising Coro.
Chrlntinn Monitor.
Mississippi, long one of tho greatest
of the cotton-growing States, and a
State to which the criticism on the sin
gle crop was largely directed, is rapidly
becoming one of the greatest of the
corn States. Its acreage of corn has
expanded marvelously since the diversi
fication propaganda was sot on foot.
our years ago corn production in Mis
sissippi ran to 28,000,000 bushels, which
was considered a tremendous cereal
crop for a cotton State. Two years la
ter its production of corn reached 60,-
000,(MM) bushels. East year unfavorable
conditions lowered the yield to 60,000,-
000. This year, it is estimated, the corn
crop will not be less than 100,000,000
bushels.
It is a remnrkahie and significant fact
that this yield, great bb it is, will just
about meet the average annual con
sumption of corn in the State. To go
hoik no further than 1911, Mississippi
had in that year a deficit in its corn
crop of no less than 72,000,000 bushels.
This it had to meet by buying outside.
It did not, for it could not, buy it in tho
South, bccauso the rrat of the South
also had a corn deficit. The money ta
ken in for cotton went out largely for
corn and other foodstuffs which tho
South could have raised, but did not.
Whatever Mississippi farmers who
have planted corn this year may obtain
for their cotton —and the price per
pound may bo low —they can count us
gain, for they will not bo compelled to
exchange it for food. Moreover, with
100,000,000 bushels of corn at their
back they will not because of lack of
food or feed be driven to accept the
first offer from the cotton buyer, nor
will they necessarily, in the event of
depression as a result of the embargo,
be driven to sacrifice the Btaple at panic
prices.
A big corn crop in Mississippi, with
tho spot cash pric" running between 80
cenlB and $1 a bushel, comes very near
spelling economic independence for its
farmers. Similar crops in all the South
ern S ates would come very near free
ing that section of the United States
from all tho alarms, and causes o
alarm, now connected with tho cotton
industry. “LeBB cotton and more corn’
is a slogan the South can adopt not only
with profit to itself, hut, temporarily at
least, with satisfaction to the rest of
the country.
A refund of $I5,000,(M)0 is being made
to owners of Ford automobiles who pur
chased their machines since Aug. 1
1914, in accordance with a promise of
the company of that date, that if 300,
000 of its machines should be sold dur
ing the ensuing year each buyer would
receive a refund of from $40 to $60,
The 300,000 point was reached on the
afternoon of July 16. The Ford Com
pany wishes this refund considered
strictly in accordance with ite profit
sharing policy. Thinking people will be
glad so to regard it, and equally glad to
encourage with their approval a policy
that, if generally employed, would
bring the consumer and the producer to
something like the same plane of inter
est. The company ia able to carry on
this great rebate distribution because
of the extraordinary sale of its product,
To this sale every purchaser of the
year contributed, and in the profits ev
ery such purchaser is to share. The
thing is remarkable, hut it bears the
stamp of equity, and such distributions
should be leas remarkable in future.
The Quinine That Does Not Affect The Heed
Jtecauae of its tonic ami lazativr effect, LAXA
TIVK BKOMO QUININE is better than ordinary
Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor
ringing in hesd. Remember the full name and
look lor the vicaature of K. W. GROVE. 25c.
A Lesson to the Steward.
Youth's Companion.
King Frederick William III. of PruB
sia was a man of few words; whatever
he had to say waB always brief and to
the point, aB the following anecdote
Bhows:
The King, who was accustomed to in
terest himself in all the details of court
management, ordered his steward to
take special pains to seo that all the
carriages and wagons were amply sup
plied with food and drink when' ver
they left for a journey of a day or so;
but it sometimes happened that the
steward failed in his duty and dispatched
the drivers without any food, giving
them a coin, perhaps, to buy what they
wanted. That usually meant that the
driver went hungry, as he did not have
much opportunity to leave his horses
and dine at a shop or restaurant.
At length the King became aware of
his steward’s failure to carry out his
orderB, and awaited tho next opportu
nity to bring the fact to hiB attention.
He had not long to wait. That night
the King stopped his coachman as he
entered the courtyard, and upon inqui
ry found that he had had nothing to eat
Bince breakfast. He held out a dollar in
his hand that the steward had given
him to buy food with. Without a word
the King took the dollar.
He went inti the castle and summon
ed the steward. That worthy appeared
immediately and made a profound bow;
hut, as he raised himself up, he wsh
surprised to feel a coin placed against
his mouth.
“Eat it!” ordered the King.
“But, your Majesty, I—”
“Eat it!” tho King again roared.
“Why, your Majesty, I can’t eat it!”
“Oh, you can’t? B it you expected
the coachman to! Well, in the future
just remember that—that people eat
food, not monoy. Do you understand?”
The steward understood; in the fu
ture the King’s coachmen were amply
supplied with provisions whenever they
went upon a journey.
A youth of loafing means an age of
want, unless a fellow has a wife who
can marry his daughter to some money-
viper’s son.
Diarrhea Quickly Cured.
“About two years ago I had a severe
attack of diarrhoea which lasted for
over a week,” writes W. C. Jones,
Buford, N. D. "I became so weak
that I could not Btand upright. A
druggist recommended Chamberlain’s
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
The first dose relieved me and within
two days I was as well as ever.” Ob
tainable everywhere.
The Ocklawaha River.
The Ocklawaha river, in Florida, is
perhaps the most tortuous and winding
river in the world. A pilot told his pas
sengers that in its course of one hun
dred and thirty-five miles fiom Palatka
to Silver Springs, there were nine hun
dred and thirty-five bends; some quite
U shaped.
The river is extremely narrow, though
the waters are deep; and, as its banks
are clothed with dense and tropical fo
liage, the extending branches often
scrape the steamer’s rail, not infre
quently sweeping away a shutter, or
other portable accessory.
By night tho searchlight from the
bow casts its rays into the jungle on
either side, while it illuminates and dis
pels the black shade of tho winding
river. Then, with the sun and the mor-
the boat glides on to the mirror
like watorB of Silver river, so clear and
transparent that all things—a plunging
turtle, a poised log, the boat itself, seem
suspended in mid-air. Still the branches
of tho jungle cast their shade upon the
stream, which is lined with palms and
cypresRea draped with countlnaaloopinga
of gray-green mosses. The voyage con
tinues on this crystal pathway, until the
boat enters the broader wateraof Silver
SpringR, the source of Silver, Ocklawa
ha and St. Johns rivers.
The pilot tells of a time, when he was
quite a boy, (but oven then held the
wheel as the steamer plied from Palat-
ka to Silver Springs,) when this winding
river-way was the only mute by which
produce was transferred from tho inte
rior to the coast. That was b fore the
development of the Florida East, Coast
railroad.
It’s a Long Way to Peace.
Albnny Hojnlrf.
Approximately 4.000,000 more men
are under arms in the armies of the Al
lies than nre arrayed against them un
der the Oprmnn, Austro-Hungarian and
Turkish lings, but it, is A numerical ai-
periority perhaps fully offspt by the
better preparedness and equipment of
the Teutons. There nre approximately
13 000.000 men in the armies of Great
Britain and her allies, and nearly 9 000,-
000 in the vast military organization ar
rayed against them.
So far as it is possible to see at this
Rtago of tho great conflict, the war will
last a long timn yet. It is impossible to
quickly crush a military alliance sup
ported by 9 000,000 fighting men, and
the 9,000,000 cannot, of course, crush
13,000,000. There will ho a constant
swinging of the pendulum from side to
side as the varying fortunes of war ebb
and flow, but not within the coming
year will there be anything like a deci
sive triumph of arms on either aide.
There seems to be, therefore, no rea
son to revise the opinion generally ex
pressed in the early stagea of the con
flict that it is to be a war of resources
rather than of men and guns. Gold and
bread and not gunpowder and projec
tiles will turn the scale at the last, and
tho side with the deepest war chests
will dictate terms of peace.
The teacher, a lady of uncertain age,
wrh having a hard time teaching John
ny the names of the Presidents.
“Why, when I was your age,“she
said disgustedly, “I could recite the
names of the Presidents backward and
forward.”
“Yes’m,” said Johnny, “but when
you was my age dey wasn’t bo many
Presidents. ”
ARE YOUR KIDNEYS WELL?
Many Newnan People Know the Im
portance of Healthy Kidneys
The kidneys filter the blood.
They work night and day.
Well kidneys remove irnnuritieB.
Weak kidneys allow impurities to
multiply
No kidney ill should be neglected.
There is possible danger In delay.
If you have backache or urinary trou
bles,
if you are nervous, dizzy or wo r n out.
Begin treating your kidnevs at once;
Use a proven kidney remedy.
None indorsed like Doan's Kidney
Pills.
Recommended by thousands.
Proved by Newnar. testimony.
J. H. Foster. 47 W. Washington St.,
Newnan, says: “My back gave me lots
of trouble. Invariably in the mornings
it was sore and lame. The least bit of
work or any stooping caused me to suf
fer awfully. Dizzy spellH almost over
came me at times. The kidney secre
tions also passed irregularly. Colds
settled in my kidneys and made my
condition worse. I used two boxes of
Doan’a Kidney PillB and they cured me
of all symptoms of kidney trouble ”
Price GOc., at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for kidnev remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—The same that
Mr. FoBter had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Prons., Bu^alo, N. Y.
What Is tho Best Remedy For
Constipation? 4
This ia a question asked us many times
each day. The answer is
Wo guarantee them to be satisfactory
to you. Bold only by us, 10 cents.
John R. Cates Drug Co.