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