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THE NEWNAN HERALD
NEWNAN HERALD 1 Consolidated with Coweta Advertiser September, 1886. »
Eatablinned 1866. I Consolidated with Newnan News January, 1915, ‘ \
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1915.
Vol. 51—No. 11
FARMERS’
Supply Store
It was with many doubts and fears that we
all started in to make this crop. Both the mer
chant and farmer had to go strong on faith—faith
in each other. We have struggled up to this good
hour, and now see that we have been greatly
blessed. Hope, too, we can see better times ahead
for us all.
We have stocked our store with the things that
our customers need, and at the lowest prices cash
can command.
We are still headquarters for supplies for the
farm and home. We want to mention especially
the following articles you will need—
“Star Brand” Shoes Are Better.
See us on shoes for the entire family.
Work Shirts, Undershirts, Work Pants, etc.
Also, bagging and ties. Special prices to ginners.
Georgia Seed Rye, Barley, Wheat and Oats.
Flour, Flour, Flour!
“Desoto” is the best Flour for the money that
you can buy.
Old-fashioned Cuba Molasses.
Come to see us. You are always welcome.
Hitch your mules and horses in our wagon yard
and store your bundles with us.
YOURS TO PLEASE,
’Phone 147.
Corner Madison and Jefferson Streets.
FORD
The Universal Car
More extensive service for Ford own
ers is assured by the addition of new
branches and more agents. Over 900,-
000 Fords now in daily use—7,000 Ford
agents to give service,—should be evi
dence enough to any prospective buy
er of the stability, quality and general
popularity of this universal car, and
the prices lower than ever. Run
about $390; Touring Car $440; Town
Car $640, f. o. b. Detroit. On sale by
WA L TER HOPKINS
25 Perry SI. Phone 145
HER ROOM.
’Tis vacant now. the little room
She uard to call her own;
The climbing: rose nho ptantcd there
Hna round the window grown.
The minlight fulls h golden sheen
Acroaa the snow-white bed,
And brightly glints the mother's hair
Who prays with drooping head.
The city’s song allured her so—
Its gaily lighted streets—
She left her home for Babylon's land
To drink the bitter sweet.
Where luughter covers breaking hearts.
And gay songs drip with tears.
And hope lies buried in the breast.
Through disillusioned years.
In silken gown she’s standing now.
Beside the cnantnent there.
With rose pinned upon her breast
And jewels in her hair.
With hand clutched tight above her heart
She peers into the gloont~
And sees her mother praying there
In her little vacant room.
—[Eloanoro Nichol.
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY CO.
CURRENT SCHEDULES.
ARRIVE from
Griffin 10:57 A. M. 7:17 P.M.
Chattanooga l :43 p. m.
Cedar-town 6:43 ▲. M.
Oohxmbua ........ 9:40 a m. 6:86 p. m.
DEPART FOR
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Chattanooga *1Y?, i' S ’
i Cedartown 7 :xu p. m.
Columbus 7 :66 A. M. 8:1SS »
President Wickersham Presents
Side of the Railroads.
Atlanta Constitution.
The news stories and editorials ap
peering in the papers in the last few
days possibly unintentionally present
the revision of freight rates in a sadly
distorted light, and this letter is writ
ten in the hope that it will serve in
part, at least, to correct the perspec
tive.
It is not true that the proposed
changes have been sprung on the public
suddenly or unwittingly, (the Hailroad
Commission of Georgia called attention
to same a long time ago,) or that same
were initiated by the railroads, but it is
true that the readjustment is a far-
reaching and momentous one, of great
interest to the entire Southeast, and
not only is it perfectly right that the
Atlanta Freight Bureau and other sim
ilar organizations here and elsewhere
should scrutinize same carefully, and
seek to safeguard their respective in
terests, but it would possibly huve been
more fortunate and effective hud they
done so when the matter was in a for
mative stage before Congress, and
when the railroads wasted their breath
in pointing out the radical and revolu
tionary effects which would fiow from
the enactment of the revised long and
short haul clause.
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion held a hearing at Atlanta express
ly to hear objections from the Atlanta
shippers to the proposed rigid applica
tion of the long and short haul clause
of the law. Not a single shipper ap
peared, and when the traffic represen
tative of an important Southeastern
line protested because of its adverse
effect on Atlanta, he was asked by the
Interstate Commerce Commissioner if
it was not strange that he should be so
distressed when the shippers themselves
were voicing no objections.
To properly understand the present
issue it is necessary to go back to the
early days when railroads were promo
ted and built by cities seeking to ex
tend their trade. This led in time to i
system of rates to the more important
trading centers, or what were common
ly referred to as “jobbing points,’
lower than to the smaller points in sur
rounding territory intermediate to the
jobbing points. The Interstate Com
merce Commission has decided that the
conditions surrounding Atlanta and
similar jobbing points do not justify
lower rates to these points than to the
intermediate points, and ordered the
carriers to remove the discrimination,
which the carriers were Beeking to do
in the rates they have issued to become
effective Jan. 1, 1916.
While the growth and prosperity of
the cities in the Southeast has seemed
to us to have proven the wisdom of the
jobbing point system of rates, at the
same time there has gradually arisen
two increasingly embarrassing compli
cations.
First. The various jobbing points
sought to jnvade the territory of their
neighbors, and, not content with their
own advantages in certain respectB,
sought to gain for themselves the ad
vantages possessed by their contempor
ary cities in other particulars. Unfor
tunately for the railroads, they have
had to bear the brunt of the attacks for
the invasion by one city of the territo
ries of other cities, and to carry their
point the attackers have unsparingly
inflamed popular prejudice, extending
in its influence even to trials before ju
ries; and have never hesitated to raise
the cry of “discrimination,” even
though they themselves were already
the beneficiaries of the principles at
tacked.
Second. In subsequent years numer
ous smaller communities have grown up
and demanded for themselves jobbing
point advantages, and, with less incon
sistency, have rallied their influences to
the same cry of "discrimination.”
As a typical example of this class,
would respectfully refer you to Hon.
Fuller E. Callaway, the father of the
“LaGrange rate case,” which was for
years before the commission and courts;
and for another such example, would
cite the case of Carrollton, Ga., the
home of William C. Adamson, who, as
chairman of the House Committee on
Interstate Commerce, framed the pres
ent “fourth section” (long and short
haul clause) of the Interstate Com
merce Act, under which the Interstate
Commerce Commission is requiring the
present revision.
For years the railroads huve been so
continually assailed that the public at
large has become convinced that the
Southeastern rate structure is an edi
fice of discrimination, and, without sup
port from the beneficiaries of that
structure, the protests of the railroads
were overborne. The long and short
haul clause was enacted, und it is a
matter of public knowledge to the Rail
road Commissioners and others that the
Interstate Commerce Commission has
been applying constant pressure to the
railroads for the completion of the her
culean task of revising the entire rate
faMje, und the revision now before the
comhiission is the result of continuous,
hard Jabor for three years by a commit
tee or traffic, experts.
Of course, if rates to the smaller
points must be put on a level with the
jobbing cities, this result c innot be ac
complished "merely by cutting down the
rates to the former, for in future the
traffic, as a rule, probably will not move
to jobbing points and there be reshipped
but will move direct from New York,,
Boston, etc., to the points of consump
tion. A revision downward only would
bankrupt the railroads — an extreme
eventuality which no one wants, of
course—so the low points must be
brought up at the sume time that the
high points are reduced.
1 do hope, therefore, the problem will
bo approached calmly, studiously, and
with that spirit of broad toleration and
earnestness which the gravity of the
change would seem to warrant, and
that the difficulties of the situation will
not be enhanced, or a comprehension
obscured of the principles involved by
beating the “tom-toms” and arousing
the monster of blind, unreasoning prej
udice. C. A. Wickersham,
President and General Manager Atlanta
and West Point and Western Railway
of Alabamu Railroads.
The Humorous Vein.
The Increase in Advertising.
The tremendous increase in the use of
advertising space is remarkable. News
papers, magazines, street cars, bill
boards, fences, even the rocks along
the country wayside, teem with ad
vertisements. Millions of dollurs are
now spent in advertising where only
thousands were spent a generation ago.
A great many new concerns are born
every year whose existence is depen
dent almost entirely on the breath of
life afforded them by publicity. A
comparison of the advertising columns
of to-day’s publications with those of
only a dozen years ago Hhows that ad
vertising has received a mighty impetus.
It is estimated that the expenditure
for advertising in the United States
alone now exceeds one billion dollars
annually. The mere mention of this
great sum gives an idea of the interests
involved in advertising. In a few
years the volume of advertising has
more than doubled, and it is conserva
tive to say that if the present increase
in the use of advertising space is main
tained the next ten years will see the
expenditure again doubled.
Stores that formerly confined their
advertising to simple announcements of
a few lines, or a column, now use whole
pages to exploit their goods. Railroad
companies, banking, engineering and
other concerns that formerly were con
tent with business that naturally gravi
tated to them, or that considered ad
vertising as an expense, are all awak
ing to the vital force and the business-
producing possibilities of a liberal use
of printers’ ink.
The keen business competition of the
present age has made it imperative for
the merchant or business man who
would achieve success to advertise ex
tensively and judiciously. The small
dealer and the great manufacturer, the
banker and the railroad magnate, every
one who has something to sell, whether
it is goods or services, realizes th it his
success in disposing of his wares hinges
on favorable publicity.
One Chicago tailoring establishment,
whose business ramifies the entire
United States, expressed its views of
advertising as fol.ows: “Cutting off
advertising may reduce the expenses,
but so does cutting your wind-pipe re
duce the coBt of living.”
Timely Hint on Over-Eating.
Christmas, New Year's and other
feast days cause many disturbed diges
tions. The stomach and bowels should
not be permitted to remain clogged up,
for indigestion and constipation are
often followed by serious disease, re
suiting from undigested poisonous
waste matter. Foley Cathartic Tablets
should be in every home, ready for use.
No griping; no unpleasant after effect.
Relieve distress after eating, regulate
bowels, sweeten stomach and tone up
the liver J. F. Lee Drug Co.
National Mnzaainc.
Every serious-minded editor is at
times disgusted to find that when he
especially wants to intlate a glittering
bubble of humor, the wit and humor
verse seems to have run dryer than the
Russian vodka-drinker of I’etrograd.
He cannot turn a faucet like the pro
prietor of a soda fountain and hand
over a tizz pop or lemon phosphate or
“pick me up” restoration to order. He
mus' just wait until the tired brain re
vives for a moment its cheerier tone.
Sometimes he tries to utilize the funny
stories told him to lighten the gritn
shadows of an editorial pnge, but when
ho tries to cull up their ghoBts the de
licious und care-dispelling point of the
joke has, alus! wholly escaped his Mem
ory. A jovial humor doesn’t insure
the brilliant word-play of the jester.
The world loves fun, but real fun is
like foam; it glitters with the hues of
Paradise, but it is ns evanescent as
clouds on a hot summer day. Things
written while on the brink of tears, or
inspired by deep sincerity and earnest-
nees, seem to endure the longest. Even
carrying a joke book, with every good
story and pungent saying carefully
tabulated and indexed, doesn’t help,
for often notes, when grown cold, lack
gleam and glitter, and sometimes the
point is as hard to find us a yesterday’s
newspaper. So this sail fact is a per
ennial joke in the editorial sunctum,
and even this confession might be con
sidered a joke on the reader, for it is
not easy even to dictate one’s failure to
fittingly evolve a joke, and yet one
feels that he has often closely approach
ed that frame of mind which Mr. Murk
Twain insisted always obsessed him
when he wanted to write or suy some
thing humorous. “Your head must al
ways be empty—absolutely of all else, ”
wrote the author of “Huckleberry
Finn.” “If you want humor to enter,
all else must go, for nature in her
piquant moods doth abhor a vacuum.”
Query, “Would a mental vacuum
cleaner help any?”
Making of Big Guns An Inter
esting Sight.
A fascinating sight is to watch the
first stages in the manufacture of the
big guns which are playing such a big
part in the present war. A solid ingot
of steel, some 50 feet in length, is em
ployed in the making of the 13-inch
gun. After being forged and then al
lowed to cool, so that it may be tough
ened for the heavy work, this gigantic
bar of steel is pressed into cylindrical
shape by a power hydraulic press,
which exerts a pressure of anything be
tween 5,000 and 10,000 tons to the
square inch. Later what is known as
the trepanning operation is carried out,
namely, drilling the bore from end to
end. Next the bore is rilled.
The most impressive sight, however,
is the hardening process, when the
rough weapon is heated to dazzling
white heat and plunged into a well full
of oil. If the operation takes place in
the night time the sight of this big
glowing bar of metnl being lowered ap
parently into the bowels of the earth,
issuing leaping tongues of flame from
the burning oil, may bo likened to a
scene from Dante’s "Inferno.” The
gun is left to cool in the oil bath, out of
which it comes toughened und tem
pered.
Now follows the wire-binding opera
tion, to make the weapon stronger and
impart to it some measure of elasticity.
This wire-binding is much the same
principle as the whipping on the handle
of a cricket bat. In this case, however,
the whipping takes the pluce of a strong
steel ribbon wound about the body of
the gun. Every 13 inch gun has about
121) miles of this steel ribbon wound
around it. Some idea of the lubor in
volved in the manufacture of one of
these guns may be gathered from the
fact that from start to finish the time
occupied is 12 months.
Bear This in Mind.
“I consider Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy by fur the best medicine in the
market for colds and croup,” nays Mrs.
Albert BloBser, Lima, Ohio. Muny
others are i f the same opinion. Obtain
able everywhere.
Diplomacy.
Clovolaml Plain Dealer.
“This is a pretty time to come home,
I must say,” squealed the wife of a
very good friend of ours no longer ago
than Tuesday night. “And it’s a fine
condition you are in, too! What have
you to say for yourself?”
“It was like this, darling girl,”
enunciated our friend distinctly. “What
was it. you asked me?”
"I asked you what you had to say for
yourself?”
“Well, gee-whiz! You’ve got me all
mixed up now. I had a lot o’ thingB to
say, but when you jump on me that
way, I can’t think o’ one of them.”
Come into the house and don’t make
a spectacle of yourself.”
Aha! Now you are getting all the
evidenshe on your side! Ain’t that juBt
like a woman? I could ’a’ made mon
ey outa the excuses I had for not com
ing home to-night. Several of my
friends said they were real litrachoor.
But they don’t go with you. No, sir.
You nip genius in the bud; you spoil
your own chances as the wife of a suc
cessful author—and for what? So, to
ruin me, you persist in petty annoy
ances to my comfort—you—"
“Oh, darling!" she sobbed, melted to
tears. “I didn’t mean that. I didn’t
know I was doing that. I only wanted
to know why you were out so late!”
‘Well, now that you know, I’ll
promise not to refer to it again if you
will promise never to talk that wuy
again.”
And darned if he didn’t get away
with it!
Watch Your Children
Often children do not let parents know
they are constipated. They fear some
thing distasteful. They will like Rcxall
Orderlies—a mild laxative that tastes
like sugar. Sold only by us, 10 cents.
John R. Catos Drug Co.
In Montana a railroad bridge had
been destroyed by fire, and it was very
necessary to replace it at once. The
bridge engineer and his staff were or
dered in haste to the place. Two days
filter came the superintendent of the
division. Alighting from his private
car, he encountered the old master
bridge builder.
‘Bill,” said the superintendent—and
the words quivered with energy—“I
want this job rushed. Every hour’s
delay costs the company money. Have
you got the engineer’s plans for the
new bridge?”
“I don’t know,” said the bridge
builder, "whether the engineer has the
picture drawed yet or not, but the
bridge is up and the trains is passing
over it.”
Owes Her Good Health to Chamber
lain’s Tablets.
“I owe my good health to Chamber
lain’s Tablets,” writes Mrs. R. G. Neff,
Crookston, Ohio. "Two years ago I
was an invalid due to stomach trouble.
I took three bottles of these tablets and
have since been in the best of health.”
Obtainable everywhere.
Laughter Aids Digestion.
Laughter is one of the most healthful
exertions; it is of grent help to diges
tion. A still more effectual help is a
dose of Chamherlain’s Tablets. If you
should bo troubled with indigestion give
them a trial. They only cost a quarter.
Obtainable everywhere.
A youthful physician had been sum
moned as a witness in a case which de
pended on technical evidence, and op
posing counsel in cross-examination
asked several sarcastic questions about
the knowledge and skill of so young a
doctor.
“Are you,” he asked, “entirely fa
miliar with the symptoms of concussion
of the brain?”
“Yes.”
“Then I should like to ask your opin
ion of a hypothetical case. Were my
learned friend, Mr. Banks, and myself
to bang our heads together, should wo
get concussion of the brain?”
“Mr. Banks might.”
A WISE CHOICE.
A Newnan Man Proves He Made
No Mistake.
A hotel man is more subject to the
recommendation of hiB patrons than
ulmost any other business man. but
Mr. Lewis selected Doan’s Kidney
Fills when suffering from kidney
trouble. To prove that ho made no
mistake in his choice, he givea a signed
report of his satisfactory experience.
Rend it;
W. I’. Lewis, proprietor Virginia Ho
tel, Washington street, Newnan, Ga.,
says: "My kidneys were out of order
and I suffered from a lame and aching
back. I felt tired and dull, especially in
the morning. The kidney secretions
passed irregularly, sometimes being too
frequent and then again scanty and pain
ful. I used six or seven boxes of Doan’s
Kidney’s Pi!!“ and they cured me of
all signs of kidney trouble. I have had
rio return of the complaint since.”
Price 5()c. at all dealers. Don’t sim
ply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan[s
Kidney Bills—the same that Mr. Lewis
had. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buf
falo, N, Y.
A waterspout is constantly spinning.
The moment it ceases it collapses. At
the distance of about u quarter of a mile
above the sea level its spinning has been
estimated at six miles a minute.
Extremes meet when art is long
the artist is short.
and
WEAK, SORE LUNGS
Restored To Health By Vinol
Camden, N.J. —“I had a deep seated
cough, was run-down, and my lungs were
weak and sore. 1 had tried everything
suggested without help. One eve
ning I read about Vinol and decided
to try it Soon I noticed an improve
ment I kept on taking it and today I
am a well man. The soreness is all
gone from my lungs, 1 do not have any
cough and have gamed fifteen pounds. ’
— Frank Hillman.
We guarantee Vinol for chronic
coughs, colds and bronchitis and for all
weak, run-down conditions.
JOHN It. CATES DKUu CO.. Newnan. Ga.
There Is No Question
but that indigestion and the distressed
feeling which always goes with it can
be promptly refieved by taking a
Dyspepsia
Tablet
before and alter each meal. 25c a box.
John R. Catos Drug Co.