The Newnan herald. (Newnan, Ga.) 1915-1947, August 20, 1915, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTHE NEWNAN HERALD SF.WNAN HERALD ' Consolidated with Coweta Advertiser September. 188i>. f Established I860. i Consolidated with Newnan Nt*w« January, 1915. \ NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1915. Vol. 50—No. 47 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. I. G. 'Phone 147. & Corner Madison and Jefferson Streets. Reliable Groceries Are the kind I endeavor to sell my customers and friends, and always have a complete line of just such as you need for a nice breakfast, dinner or supper. My goods are all guaranteed FRESH and of the best variety. This is the season of the year for iced tea. I handle all the leading brands, and solicit a trial order. The best line of cigars, chewing and smoking tobacco in town AFTER ALL. Wv tnny choose the bout that’s In it Ah we’re journey inn: along:; We may smile upon the Morrows that we meet: We may be n listless plodder. Or may head the carer throng;— We rnav draw from life the bitter or sweet; We tnny pluck the blooms about u«. Or may choose the thorns instead; We may heed or may neglect the lender’s call; We may choose the narrow pathway. Or the broader road ahead Life is simply what we make it, after all. We may help a weakened brother Who is struggling with his load; We may cheer him on his long and weary way . We may spurn him and neglect him As we pass him on the road. Or relieve his deep distresses every day; - We may see our name emblazoned On the honor roll of fame. And courageously may rise from every fall; We’re winner or a loser, uh we daily play the game — Life is really whnt we make it. after all. wu. Highest market price paid for country produce. Fresh fish every Friday and Saturday. J. T. S W I N T THE OLD RELIABLE GROCER T. S. PARROTT Insurance—All Branches Representing r Fire Association, of Philadelphia Fidelity and Casualty Co., of New Yorh American Surety Co., of New Yorh Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co., of Newark, N. J. 14 1-2 Greenuillest., Over H. C. GiouerCo. Get Ready! Albany Herald. Secretary of War Lindsey M. Gar rison declares the United States must have, and is going to have, a definite military policy. He thinks it is the duty of every citizen of the republic to have an opinion on military prepared ness, and not be timid about expressing it. “The untrained men don’t count,” says the head of the War Department. “They are merely an unorganized mob and have no show at all when put in the field against trained troops. To point to the men in the United States as proof that we are prepared to de fend ourselves is like pointin'* to the lumber in the forest, if a man calls for ships. Possession of raw material does not mean that you have the finished article.” We as a nation are standing on much the same ground to-day that we oc cupicd prior to the Spanish-American war. On April 23, 1898, when it was definitely known that war was at hand, President McKinley issued a call for 125,000 volunteers. On May 25 fol lowing, a call for an additional 75,000 was made. The war was over before these raw recruits could be made ready for active service. The total expenses of the war from the beginning to October 81, 1898, were estimated at 31165,000,000. During that time the lives of 2,910 American soldiers were lost, all but 306 of these dying of disease. Had Spain proved a formid able adversary, it is easy to imagine the general condition of chaos which would have resulted. Had France, England and Russia been fully prepared for war the situa tion in Europe to-day would be very different from what it is. Instead of a Kaiser making impossible demands as the price of peace, the world would see a Kaiser on his knees begging for mercy. But for the resistance of Bel gium, which held the German forces back until France could mobilize her troops, Paris would to-day be in Ger mans hands. Great Britain, trusting in the supremacy of her navy, forgot that she might also have need for a standing army. After one year of war she is but just now ready to send in her first trained volunteer troops. Her in significant standing army and her terri torials, similar to our National Guard, have stood the brunt of the fighting up to this time. Russia has pinned her faith to mere numbers. They have proved, as Secretary Garrison says of improperly trained men, almost an unorganized mob. They have re treated, time after time, before forces far inferior to their own in 'number. Germany was ready for war. Her soldiers were thoroughly trained, and as a result they have been masters of the military situation. At our very door we have a condition which bids fair to give us serious con cern, if not actual embarrassment. In case of an enforced invasion of Mexi co we would need every trained soldier we have, as well as the National Guard. And this at a time when the European situation, so far as we are concerned, is full of uncertainty. If ever the United States stood face to fac£ with a crisis it is now. There is only one safe refuge, and that lies in immediate action. As fast as the work can be done a strong standing army, capably officered in every department, well organized and equipped, should be built up. Our coast fortifications should be elaborated, the strength of our navy doubled, and needed new departments of either branch of the service created. We have the raw material, but the finished product is sadly wanting. The mere fact that we are Americans will not save us. An Irishman, brought before the court on the charge of bigamy, having been discovered as the husband of four wives, apologetically said: “Sure, your honor, I was only trying to get a good one—an’ it’s not aisy.” The Law’s All Right. Macon Telegraph. Senator Thomas has introduced in the Georgia Senate a bill to amend the law governing legal advertising in this State, so that a new paper established in a county may be eligible as the official organ after two months of publica tion. The law now provides that a paper cannot become the legal adver tising medium in a county until it shall have been published for two years. We think Senator Thomas is making a mistako in pushing this change. A thrifty, prosperous newspaper in the average county town in Georgia is the biggest single asset that community has. In the average country town one newspaper is all that the situation warrants, and all that the community can afford to support. Two newspa pers in a great many places in Georgia mean a precarious existence for both, with the eventual death of one of them. A prosperous and well-to-do news paper cun do, and usually does, all of those things looking to the good of the community and county. It is more likely to be maintained on a high plane, holding a lofty ideal, standing for the highest in human affairs. There is no more danger >us agency in a community than too many newspapers. On the theory that a prosperous man or busi ness can be honest and stand for the best more easily, and is more likely to do so, we respectfully submit that the mushroom newspaper, coming into cx^ istence through factional lights over the legal printing, should be made to prove its good faith and staying ability be fore it is given tho public business. It may be there for a month, two months or possibly a year, and after it has de parted the public turns back to the old stand-by, receiving the same excellent service as before—nobody benefited, and a great deal of harm having been done. The purpose of publishing legal ad vertising is that the people may lie in formed of tho public’s business. Cir culation is as necessary for legal adver tising as it is for any individual’s ad vertising. No newspaper can spring up and in two months get a subscrip tion list of sufficient numbers to enable it to render service in competition with an old established publication. Give us a good newspaper in every hamlet. Let the Tpeople support it loyally, and make it prosperous, that it may lender the greatest service of which it is capable. May the good Lord spare us from too many news papers. Let the law stand as it is. Can’t Afford It. The other day a merchant said he couldn’t afford to advertise in his home newspaper. If the man’s views were The Clerk Guaranteed It. “A customer came into my store the other day and said to one of my clerks, ‘Have you anything that will cure diar rhoea?’ and my clerk went and got him a bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and said to him, ‘if this does not cure you, I will not charge you a cent for it.’ So he took it home and came back in a day or two and said he was cured,” write J. H. Berry & Co., Salt Creek, Va. Obtain able everywhere. not distorted he would see that he couldn’t afford not to advertise. Refus ing to advertise is his most expensive extravagance. That same merchant will spend hours telling of the “unfair" competition of the mail order houses, who are his most aggressive and dan gerous competitors, yet the methods employed by the mail order houses which succeed are the very ones which the merchant refuses to use. The mail order house, first of all, is an adverti ser. Advertising is the life of itH busi ness. Every magazine that enters the small town and rural home carries the ad. of the mail order house. Expensive catalogues are printed showing illus trations of the actual articles. Oc casionally sheets are scattered over the country as a special “come-on” for the bargain-hunter. Instead of doing these things in a smaller way through the columns of his local paper the mer chant who can’t afford to advertise sits down and “cusses” his tough luck and wonders why ho can’t get the business. He never thinks he has a better oppor tunity to reach the people in hiH neigh borhood than the mail order house has. It doesn’t cost him as much as it does the outsider; he can draw the people to his store and show them the actual ar ticle he is advertising, and, when they buy, they can take their purchase home with them instead of having to wait several weeks for it. Advertising is an investment. It should be charged to your selling cost. Figure what per centage you have to pay to advertise, then base a fifty-two weeks' campaign on the computation. You can’t lose. You can’t afford riot to advertise. Despondency Due to Indigestion. "About three months ago when I was suffering from indigestion, which caused headache and dizzy spells and made me feel tired and despondent, I began tak ing Chamberlain’sTabletR,” writes Mrs. Geo, Hon, Macedon, N. Y. “This med icine proved to be the very thing I needed, as one day’s treatment reli’ ved me greatly. I used two bottles of Cham beriain’s Tablets arid they rid me of the trouble.” Obtainable everywhere. The Sugar Industry. For one American industry the Eu ropean war lias proved literally a life- saver. This is the business of growing and making sugar, both from cane and beets. While sugar does not rank in size as an agricultural crop with corn or wheat, yet the amount raised from American soil has reached large pro portions, ranging from 3,000,000,000 to 5,000,000,0110 pounds a year. One peculiar thing about sugar is that it is grown in more different parts of American territory than any other crop. Cane sugar is the principal product of Louisiana, Hawaii, Porto Rico and tho Philippine Islands, while sugar beets are grown in sixteen States, from Ohio in the east to California in tho west. A year ago tho industry of sugar pro duction was on the decline. Following the action of Congress in reducing the duty on foreign-grown sugar and pro viding for its free admission after May 1, 1916, forty Louisiana mills and plan tations had passed into the sheriff’s hands or had been disposed of at forced sale. A dozen beet sugar factories hod closed their doors and it was expected that 1915 would be the last year during which sugar would be grown to any extent from American soil, us growers declared that they could not meet the competition of cheap sugar produced under the cheap labor conditions pre vailing in tropical countries. Then came tho war, locking up the ex port sugnr supplies of Central Europe and causing Great Britain, France and other European countries to turn to the American market for the purchase of sugar. Prices advanced rapidly and the American sugur-grower, instead of fac ing destruction, was once more uble to produce hiB crop ut a profit. Sugar ex perts assert that prices will remain ut a remunerative level as long us the war continues. Thus the European confiict has been responsible for saving, tern porarily at least, an industry represent ing an investment of over $<100,000,000, and the crop of Americun-grown augur to te harvested during the present year probably will be a record-breaker. Society Girls of To-day Not Like Those of Grandma’s Day, Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 10.—An old-faBh- ioned grandmother in Atlanta, who was something of a belle in her younger days, and who iB still a keen observer of life, was seated on the terrace of well-known social club a few nights ago, watching her grown grandchildren and their friends seated at the various tallies around her. She was discussing the changes manners and customs since she was girl, and in a casual conversation summed up some of the things which a refined young lady can do to-day, and which would have been impossible Watch Your Children Often children do not let parents know they are constipated. They fear some thing distasteful. They will like Itexall Orderlies—a mild laxutivo that tastes like sugar. Bold only by us, 10 cents. John R. Cate* Drug Co. in the same refined young lady a genera tion ago in the South. “There is So and So,” she began, mentioning a young lady of wide popu larity in the best circles. “She is my own relative, so I can talk about her. She is a lovely girl, and will make some body a good wife. I know that in all the big things of life she is as good as 1 was at her age, but— “She rouges her cheeks. “She paints her lipB with red paint. “She drinks whiskey highballs. “She gambles regularly at bridge whist, and occasionally, I am told, she plays poker for money. “She doesn’t smoke cigarettes, but I know several of her Bweet young friends who do.” The dear old lady wasn’t drawing any moralH from her observations, nor was she condemning modern society. She is of tho opinion that at heart the young women of to-day are just as good and just aB pure and sweet aB they were in her girlhood. “But, my!—what a difference there is in customs, if not in morals!” she said with a sigh. The Lapeer County, Mich., Clarion received this letter from one of itB subscribers, to be published free of charge: “Mr. Editor: I desire to thank the friends and neighbors most heartily in this manner for their co-operation dur ing the illness and death of ray late husband, who escaped from me by the hand of death last Saturday. To my friends and all who contributed toward making the last minutes comfortable and the funeral a success I desire to remember most kindly, hoping that these few lines will find them enjoy ing the name blessing. I have also a good milk cow and a roan gelding horse eight years old, which I will sell cheap. God moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps on the sea and rides upon the storm. Also a black and white shoat cheap. Mrs. It. C. ” To Drive Out Malaria And Build Up The System Take the Old Standard GROVE’S TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know what you are taking, as the formula is printed on every label, showing it is Quinine arid Iron in u tasteless form. The Quinine drives out malaria, the Iron builds up the systetp. 50 ceuts What is Home Without Papa and Mamma! Life. “There is actually nothing to do in the average well-to do home which is capable of arousing the interest of a voung woman of average intelligence.” — Mary Austin, in New York World. Isn’t there as much as there ever has been? Mrs. Austin, an extremely intelligent woman herself, is writing about cabaret life and pointing out its dangers to young people. She seems to feel that the horn* ought to be a kind of antidote for outside temptations. We doubt whether this can ever be. Tho home is no rival of the Great White Way. Home is not crowded with popular umusements. But it never was. It is a shelter. Home is, or ought to be, a kind of moral incu bator. Mrs. Austin implies that because young women not are sufficiently inter ested in their own homes they go else where. The greatest point, after all. is that when they do go elsewhere they don’t seem to have taken on enoagh ballast at home to enable them to whether the storms. Home, nowadays, doesn’t seem to fit young people sufficiently for life. Either there are fewer homes, or they are not of the right sort. Home has one big advantage. It gets the young people first. The home ought to be ub,e to Bay: “Now, girls, I have had you ever since you were born. When l get through with you, you can go any where with safety. My principles will work inside of you like a gyroscope.” But homos, like every other good thing, requires constant attention. If father und mother are not both on the job constantly, tho power of the home sags as a training place for youth. Papa is working overtime trying to supply the family with luxuries they do not need. Mamina is buying thesa luxuries, because Bhe is competing with others who are doing the same. Are papa and mamma guilty of neglecting the home? We haven’t any reliable statistics on the subject, hut we gues9 they ure. Here is u story that wub told at a re cent dinner by Miss Sybil Baker, who was chosen queen of the Rorb Festival, at Portland, where reference was made to the wonderful excuses invented by the rising generation. One morning the teacher of a public school in a Western village was glanc ing over herpupils, when her eye sud denly fastened on little Willie Brown. “Willie,” said Bhe in a stern voice, "didn’t I tell you not to come to school without having had your hair combed?” “Yes, ma’am,” was the rather meek rejoinder of the youngster. “Well, then,” demanded the teacher, a little more severely, “why did you do it?” “Because I couldn’t comb it, Miss Mary,” was the startling answer of Willie. “We lent our comb to the Smiths last night and they didn’t bring it back.” There is mighty little reason to fear, v aB does Geo. W. Perkins, that the country iB going to be flooded with cheap labor from Europe at the close of tho war. A lot of Europe’s cheap labor will be dead when the fighting ends, and what is left is likely to be in demand for the great work of repairing the damage they have helped, as fighting men, to cause. The outlook is that Europe will need all her labor. There will be cities and ships to build, rail road lines to lay down, bridges to con struct, even streets and roads to make. Great areas of country that have been devastated, the farm, the village and the city, will have to be brought again to their old-time appearance. To do all that will require the work of millions of hands.—Savannah News. The Swiss reckon that their cupola fort on St. Gothard, manned by 200 ar tillerymen, could easily hold the pass against an army of 100,000. GOOD NEWS. Many Newnan Readers Have Heard ’ it and Profited Thereby. “Good news travels fast,” and bad back Hufferers in Newnan are glad to learn where relief may be found. Many a lame, weak and aching back is bad no more, thanks to Doan’s Kidney pills. Our citizens are telling the good news of their experience with this tested remedy. Here is an example worth reading: Mrs. J. M. Crowe, trained nurse, 30 Salbide street, Newnan, says: I have seen Doan’s Kidney Pills used with such good results that I always recom mend them to anyone I hear complain ing of kidney trouble and they always prove beneficial. I consider them a medicine of merit and don’t hesitate to recummend them to anyone troubled by any symptoms of kidney complaint, such as backache, headache, dizziness or irregular passages of the kidney secretions. ” Price 50c., at all dealers. Dont sim ply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s [Kidney Pills —the same that Mrs. Crowe recommends. Foster- Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y.

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The Newnan herald. (Newnan, Ga.) 1915-1947, August 20, 1915, Image 1