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NEWNAN HERALD NF.WNAN. F K 11 > A V , Al'O. 27. I AttOKHT UltAHAKI V I* OOllN I HV 01 H* rl.ATION • K Knl HI It HlNtiRK«lMSAI. DIATKH’r. Official Organ of Coweta County. Jm. K. Brown. Ellis M. CsrimnUtr. BROWN A CARPENTER, KfilTORN ANf» PUWI.IHIIKHB. L. p. WINTER, Contributing Editor. OF CO'l TON AS CONTRA HA NlJ WAR. If it were not that every pretext un der the nun in used to depress the price of cotton there would be no reason why the recent FnRlish order in council, placing cotton on the list of contraband of war, should have any effect of an appreciable surt on the price of the preaent crop. This order can only af fect the shipment of cotton into Ger many and Austria, and only a small per cent, of the cotton exported goes to those countries. The blockade of the allies haH greatly lessened the cotton received by them. Germany may, and doubtless will, retal ate, but Germany is doing all she can now to hinder the importation of cotton into Great Britain although doing really very little. The present price of cotton is not jus tified by the condition of the commer cial world. Exports during the last crop year were not much under those of the previous year, and of course the consumption in this country was great er, and will be greater still another year. It is to be most devoutly hoped that the South will one day be independent of the whims of a speculative market, as well as the unscrupulous doings of men who are controlled only by a de sire to make money out of the farmer. Since the above was written it has been announced from Washington that cotton cargoes for neutral countries will not be confiscated under the recent decree of the allies declaring cotton contraband, if within the normal con sumption of those countries. This as surance was given cotton shippers Tues day in a statement issued from the British embassy. The statement readBt “It is a misapprehension to suppose tliHt the declaration of cotton to be con traband will further restrict those con signments of cotton to neutral countries which lire proved to be exclusively des tined for the normal consumption of those countries. The embassy has no authority, however, to give any assur ance us to the immunity of particular shipments, hut under the procedure of international law relating to absolute contraband, evidence of ultimate enemy destination will be necessary to the condemnation of cotton as a lawful prize.” Further proof that the British order in council declaring as contraband of war all shipments of cotton consigned to neutral countries has not hail the de moralizing effect on the market appre hended was observed in the slight (iue- tuntion’of prices on the New York Cot ton Exchange. The contraband order went into effect Monday, and yet the market doaed on ttial day -I points higher than at the opening. A further steadying influence was the announce ment by Secretary McAdoo on Monday that fflO.OOfl.OOO would be deposited with Southern banks, to be loaned to farmers on their cotton at (i per cent., if they wish to avail themselves of the privilege of borrowing upon the terms proposed. In fact, the situation is vastly better than it was last fall, ami if the farmer will only sit steady in the boat for a month or so everything will come out all right. So soon as the cotton world realizes how short the present crop is the market will stiffen up appreciably, and the producer stands a chance to get a fuir price for his cotton. children, and haH sought to justify such barbarism on the ground that America allows munitions of war to be sent to the allies. The people of this country are just as willing to supply Germany with these munitions as they are to furnish them to England, and it is not the fault of this country that Germany is not buying these things in our mar kets. Again: Americana are insulted with the reitprated charge that they take their opinions of the war and the merits and demerits of the several parties to it from England. Our thinking, we are told, is done for us by London and the journals of Great Britain. We lack in dependence, these gentlemen of the German propaganda say, and Bay with much sarcasm. Americans are not in the habit of allowing King George nor Kaiser Wilhelm to do their thinking for them. We have no intellectual over- lords in thin country. We made up our mind about the war before we had time to learn what England thought.. There was a simultaneous outburst of indignation all over the land when the wur began. Germans must be more respectful to ward us if they wish us to respect them. The coroner's jury empanneled to in vestigate the lynching of Leo Frank in Cobb county on the morning of the 17th inst. rendered the following ver dict Tuesday, to-wit: ‘‘We, the jurors, uponouroaths say that Leo M. Frank did on the 17th day of August, 1915, in said county, come to his death by being hanged by the neck until dead, by un known parties.” And this is the end of the Frank case, whatever may be said or surmised to the contrary. Senator Hoke Smith, who was in New York City last week, was quoted by the New York Evening Sun as say ing that while he did not belong to the "Slaton school of politics in Georgia,” ho to speak, yet if he had been in Sla ton's place he would have done exactly as Slaton did in the Frank cake. The Senator’s friends hope to see a denial of the interview, which they are not in clined to credit but there has been no public denial as yet. Heigho!—and also what! The Atlanta Journal sharply disagrees with Senator Hoke Smith’s views on Grent Britain’s action in declaring cotton to be contra band of war, while the Atlanta Consti tution gives space to a long interview in which the Senator undertakes to explain his position. Verily, we have fallen upon strange times! AM KMC A AND GERMANY. It has been said more than once since the beginning of the European war said by Germans and German sympa thizers that America has not been fair in its treatment of Germany. It is as serted openly, and has been so declared from the beginning by these same par ties, that the people of the United States have not been neutral in the war, whatever the attitude of the Government may have been. There may be a degree of truth in this allegation. Of course, all Ameri cans ore not in sympathy with the allies as against the Teutons. But it must be admitted that public opinion is largely in favor of the former, and there are reasons for this. in the lirst pluce, most Americans have never been satisfied that the war was necessary or justifiable; and we all know that whatever other nations may have done in their secret chancellories, Germany took the open and aggressive initiative in the struggle. She began war on some of the allies without going to the trouble of declaring war on them. And she forced pi Kir Belgium into a war of self-defense, and in violation of her own treaty pledges. A nation that begins such a gigantic war as this must lie able to show the most righteous reasons for doing so. done this. The attitude of Germany towards America has been such as to evoke any thing but kindly feelings towards the Kai-o r and bis supporters. In her war on England she has slain more than a hundred American men, women and Will Slaton come back'.’ i’erhops; but it will be a changed and much chasten ed Slaton—you bet! Sober Second Thought. It is not pleasant to think of some things that have happened in Georgia recently. It is more unpleasant to know that they have taken place at all. We would gladly forget them, if that were right, and only recall them that we may take the sober second thought which is generally the better thought. Everything connected with the tragedy enacted near Marietta last week is regrettable. If whut took place at that fateful time and place was justified by the facts and a good many people believe that it was—then Georgia is put to shame. If what was done was not justifiable — and legally it ennnot be justified then Georgia is disgraced. Whether wo accept the one or the other as true, the case is lamentable. Nothing like it has ever happened in eorgia before. The nearest approach to it is the Yazoo fraud and the action of the Georgia Legislature in conse quence of that dubious transaction, more than a hundred years ago. The sole consolatory fact in the premises is that the people of this State are not opposed to the enforce ment of law, On the contrary, they demand a sterner enforcement of it than the courts have sometimes given. Georgians hto not inclined to take a guilty and condemned man out of the hands of the officers of the law and sit him at liberty; but it is u dumon-tratud fact that they will take a prisoner away from the keeping of the State itself and put him to death if they be lieve that there has been a miscarriage of justice. Every thinking man in Georgia knows what recent events mean. Their signifi cance cannot be easily misunderstood. The citizens of this State, and many other States, are not satisfied with the law as it is Icing administered. They believe that there are too many need less delays. They believe that’ money can defer, if it does not defeat, the punishment of guilty criminals. To them it seems that poor men cannot hope to get fair play in the courts of the State. They regard lawyers as venal self-seekers, intent not upon the proper administration of the laws upon the statute books, hut upon tilling their own pockets or gratifying their own ambitions. They are persuaded that certain legal technicalities are used in a most reckless and unscrupulous way to save guiltv men from suffering the penalty due for their violations of law. and to favor the rich us against the poor. Of course, there is exaggerated mis conception and misconstruction in all this. But one would need to shut Ins eyes to some very well-known facts in our recent history to declare that some things that are happening every day confirm the belief in the popular mind , , that some known violators of the law Germany has not | go unwhipped of justice, and are not rebuked by the courts, in some parts of our State. The police hoard of Atlanta made a scapegoat of ttie late chiet of police of that city because thousands of crimes hud been committed in the city. But they entered no pro test against the open and shameful dis regard of the prohibition law of the State by locker clubs and beer saloons. It is believed that some of these gentlemen, who showed so much hor ror over the criminal conditions in At lanta (when it suited their purpose to get rid of an unwelcome official there by) are themselves members of associa tions that daily set at naught the laws of Georgia forbidding the sale of whis key. The failure to enforce any law finds its logical sequence in the non- enforcement of all laws. Recent Georgia history has its les sen for the courts. It has its lesson for the people. It has ita lesson for lawyers. It has its lesson for legisla tors and Governors. It has its lesson fur all. L. P. W. GrBntville, Ga., Aug. 2oth. Nearly Everybody Satisfied. Milton County News. The courts of our State and nation have been sustained. Only Slaton’B ruling has been violated. However much we may regret the way in which it was done, we should remember that our liberties were wrested from tyrants by mobs. Harnesvillo News-Gazette. Everybody in Georgia is in favor of the law, and opposed to setting aside the verdict and judgments of the courts, but we submit that the Cobb county “vigilance committee,” if such com mittee was composed of Cobh county citizens, had as much right to do what they did with Frank as Gov. Slaton had to usurp the province and authority of the courts and take upon himself the sole responsibility of saying whether Frank was innocent or guilty. Marietta Journal. It was not a case of violence; it was the demands of justice that the guilty be punished. It was a case where the people ruled. Leo Frank was not scratched, nor a hair on his head harmed. He was "hanged hy the neck until dead,” as the law had said was his just due. We have no apology to make or regrets to express. The peo pie demanded that the verdict of the court be carried out, and saw to it that it was. We insist they were, and are, law-abiding citizens of Georgia, be cause they came from somewhere with in our boundaries, we presume—wheth er from Cobb county, we do not know. (Utrrollton Free Press. It was an unusual character of mob that hanged Leo Frank. He was exe cuted in as humane a manner as ever a convicted murderer was in Georgia, ac cording to all reports, and in as orderly a way. No brutality, no disorder of any kind, seems to have been indulged in by the twenty-five men who declared they were but inflicting the penalty imposed by the trial court, and sustained by all the courts of appeal. If ever mob law is to b • condoned, this case furnishes an instance. Certain it is that the oc currence is not without it3 influence in the right direction. It Bhould cause ex ecutives to exercise greater care in their use of the pardoning and commut ing power. Grinin Nrwa anti Sun. We say frankly that we are not so blooming anxious to see the slayers of Frank punished, anyhow. We know that swinging him to a tree and tying a rope around his neck was a terrible manner for a man to meet death, but we must also remember that Mary Pha- gan met a horrible death—more horri ble than did Frank, who was legally convicted of her murder, but who es eaped the gallows by commutation hy a Governor too tender-hearted to do his duty. That Frank met a just fate 90 per cent, of the people of Georgia will agree. Mob violence as a common prac tice is to he condemned, hut in this in stance the verdict of the courts and the law of the State had been thwarted by its Chief Executive, and the people took the law into their own handiand meted out what they believed to be simple justice to a guilty man. Columbus Man to Run For Congress ? Columbus Leitser. For the past several months there has been a growing sentiment in favor of placing a candidate in the field for Congress whose home was “south of the mountain,” and this sentiment has gone so far that the names of can didates have been mentioned. Solici tor Geo. C. Palmer was among the first to be named; then there is W. C. Wright, who made the race against Congressman Adamson last year; and the name of T. Hicks Fort, solicitor of the City Court, has been mentioned. In Muscogee county, and other coun ties of this section, the friends of Mr. Fort have been pointing out to him what they term an opportunity, nnd although the City Court solicitor has made no public statement, it is under stood that he has taken the matter un der Consideration and that something definite may be expected from him shortly. With these announcements it wilt be seen that Muscogee county and the Fourth Congressional district are to he the scene of warm contests during the coming year, and that some changes are apt to be made in one or more of the places. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleaded to loam that there is» at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fra ternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall’s Ca tarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the sys tem. thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by build ing up the constitution nnd assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. 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Parker’s Lucky Curve Fountain Pens sell because they excel. Guaranteed not to leak. J. F. Lee Drug Co. Prompt Delivery Efficient Service 2 PHONES 66 Norris’ Candies Dahl’s Cut Flowers Delicious Ice Cre am Is served at High-Class Soda Founts throughout Georgia and adjoining States. ASK YOUR DEALER FOR IT They delight in serving that which sat isfies YOU. "To Please You, Pleases Us." Long Dis tance Phone Icy 2000 Ice Cream Department, Atlanta, Ga. Letters of Administration. GEORGIA-Coweta County: C. E. Summers having applied to the Court of Ordinary of said county for letterH of administra tion on the estate of Elina E. Summers, deceased, all persons concerned are required to show cause in said Court by the first Monday in September next, if any they can, why said application t hould not be granted. This Aug. 10.1916. Frs. fee, $3. L. A. PERDUE. Ordinary. RAZOR BLADES of all kindm RESHARPENED and SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Each blade honed and hair tested separately. HAND WORK You get your own blade* back. Prices Per B02.3!J Blades returned same day received. Mail money and blade.i to P O. Bos 714 ATLANTA, 0A. Local Representatives Wanted. Ladies make good money represent ing us in exclusive territory. Write for information. Letters of Administration, | GEORGIA—Coweta Oovnty; I rt. B. Hungerford having applied to the Court Of Ordinary of said county for letters of administra tion on the estate of Mrs, S. L. Hungerford. de ceased. all persons concerned are required to show ■ cause in said Court by the first Monday in Sep tember next, if any they can. why said application should not be granted. This Aug. 2. 1915. Trs. i fee. $3. L. A. PERDUE, Ordinary. Letters of Dismissioft. GEORGIA-Coweta County ; A. W. Reid, guardian of Whitelaw Reid, minof. having applied to the Court of Ordinary of said county for letters of dismission from his said trust, all persons concerned are required to show cause in said Court by the first Monday in Septem ber next, if any they can. why said application should not be granted. This Aug. 2. 1915. Prs fee. $3. L. A. PERDUE. Ordinary. Sheriff’s Sale for September. GEORGIA-Coweta County: Will be sold before the Court-house door in New- nan, Coweta county. Ga.. on the first Tuesday in September next, between the legal hours of sale, to the highest anti best bidder, the following de^ scribed property, to-wit: Five shares of the capital stock of the First Na tional Bank of Senoia. of the par value of $100 per share, being certificate No. 20. Also, five shares of the capital stock of the Haralson Cotton Ware house of Haralson, of the par value of $60 per share. Levied on as the property of W. O. Hern don to satisfy a fl. fa. issued from the City Court of Newnan m far or of J. H. Rowland vs. the said W. O. Herndon. Defendant in fi. fa. notified in terms of the law. This Aug. 9. 1915. p r s. foe *4.59.J. D. BHEWSTFR. Sheriff. WALTER HOPKINS 5 Perry Street. 'Phone 145. Legal Notices. Application for Leave to Sell. GEORGIA-Coweta County: K B. Jackson, administrator on the estate of I 1. .1. Jackjmn. deorastHi. having applied to the Court of Ordinary of raid county for luave to sell the lands uf paid dt-censed. all persons con- | corned arc rvquirvd to ahow cause in sa.d Court I by the tirst Monday in September r..-xt, if any thry can. why said application shuud not be cranted This Aug. J. ii*lo. Prs. fee. 43. L. A. I’tRDUE. Ordinary, Executors’ Sale. GEORGIA-Coweta County -. Under and by virtue of the authority contained in the last will and testament of Peter B. Mnr- I'hey. deceased, will be sold to the highest and beet bidder, before the court-house door in New nan. between the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in September next, the following prop- • rty beiomrinu tnthe estate of said deceased: Twelve shares of the capital stock of the New- nan Banking Company, and two shares of the cap ital stock of the Moreland Banking Company, all of the par value of 4100 per share. Also, a ctrtain tract of land in the city of New nan, lying on the west aide of Greenville street, on w hich is situated t he residence of said deceased and bounded as follows: North by C. S. Fineam non and Mrs. G. C. Orr. east by Greenville street south by H. H. North, ar.d went by Mrs. G. C Orr’ Terms of sale—cash. Trs. fee. 45.28. PAULING B. MURFHEV, W. J. MURPHEY. H. H. NORTH. Executors of the estate of Peter S. Kbrphey, de ceased. Petition for Charter. GEORGIA-Coweta County: To the Superior Court of said county: The peti tion of William N. Banka. Edwin S. Bank* ana H. Donald Banks, all of said State and county, re spectfully shows— . 1. Thut they deBire for themselves, their at 80 * dates. successors and assigns to become incorpo rated under the name nnd style <?£ BANKS Brothers COMPANY. 2. The term for which said petitioners ask to be incorporated is twenty ytars, with the privilege of rcnuwal at the end of that time. 3. The capital Mock of the corporation is to be TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS, divided into shares of One Hundred Dollars each. Petitioner.' however, ask the privilege of Increasing snui cap ital stock from time to time not exceeding »n the uggregate $50,000: but no increase sna'l oc except upon a vote of at least two-thirds of * *' outstanding stock in favor of such increase. 4. The whole of said capital stock of Twelve Thousand Dollars has already been actually paid o. The object of the proponed corporation is pe* C\mmry gain and profit to ItB ntockholders. Pct«* t<oner3 propose to carry on a general wholesale and retail mercantile business, and to d**al in ury goods, notions, groceries. Bhoes. hatfl and cap?, clothing, Hardware, wagons, vehicles, commercial fertiliser's, furniture and undertaking, cotton and cotton seed, snd farm products: buying nnd see ing for cash or credit all such articles and things as are usually embraced in a general dry good- grocery and supply buffings, and all such articlf-* and things as may be profitably handled and soin in connection therewith. . _ . , 6. The principal office and place of DUsineM . the proposed corporation will be in the town * Grantville, said State and county, hilt thj*y a3K the privilege of establishing and operating brtnen offices and places of business elsewhere in - j a* a State, or otherwise. W herefore. Petitioners pray to be made a dooy corporate under the name and style aforesaid. ” * titled to all the rights, privileges and immunity and subject to the liabilities fixed by law. I Aug. 17. 1915. W. A. POST. Petitioners’ Attorney Filed in office this Aug. 18. 1915. L. Tit.nG • Clerk Superior Court, Coweta county. I. L Turner. Clerk of the Superior Court"* said county, do hereby certify that the for*v ’ *• i9 a true and correct copy of the original petiu " for charter of Banks Brothers Company, a* * pears of record in this office. . ^ ITNES8 my hand and official seal this the - day of August. 1915. L. TURNER Clerk Superior Court. Coweta counts Yes—Many People have told us the same story—distress after eating, gases, heartburn. A Sfacofl. "ES? * before and after each meal will relie - - Sold only by us—25c. John R. Cates Drug Co. you.