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Official Organ of Wilkinson County
Published Everyay Friday
G?o. H. Carswell - - - - Editor
OrianWood Manson
Asst Editor Business Manager
Subscription One Dollar a Year
In Advance.
Entered as second class mail mat
ter at the post-office at Irwinton: Ga.
under the act of Congress of March
3, 1879.
- - • This paper has enlisted
with the government in the
cause of America for the
period of the war
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What Have You Done
To Win The War
More than one year ago we
went to war—have you done
your very best since that time
to help your government th win
out?
Ask yourself this question
and if you haven’t and can find
no real good reason why you
haven’t, you are one of those
yellow beasts whose name be
gins with the letter “S.”
There are only three classes of
people in America today, viz: the
man, woman or child who does
not inform himself, is not inter
ested in the war, doesn’t realize
his responsibilities or privileges
or dangers, that happy go lucky,
parasitical class of people whom
we have always had with us ant
will always have. Are you one
of this class? If so you have al
ways and will always be a slack
e ?.
The second is that class of
folks who inform themselves
enough, who buy enough stamps
and bonds to think they are en
titled to cuss men in authority
and to complain.
You hear this class speak of
“the sacrifices we are called on
to make”. In the name of our
God what have we sacrificed? A
little sugar, ice and flour. Are
we brutes, hogs that we want to
even pamper our appetites
while our very flesh and blood
are dying and.dying for us?
What have we had of REAL
SACRIFICE! Nothing. W e
should crave to have Real Sacri
fice instead of complaining of
these little deprivations.
It is enough to make Lee and
• Jackson rest uncomfortably in
their graves to hear southern
men and women, daughters and
sons of our great old confedera
cy complain of these things and
call them sacrifices, when the
whole confederacy lived for
three years without a grain of
wheat save that they raised in
patches around their homes.
Coffee and sugar were not to be
had any price.
How nauseated the woman of
the sixties, who lives today,
must get when she hears these
dirty slackers talk —this same
little woman who ripped the car
pets off her floors to send to her
men at the front.
To this class of beasts we
would say read an appeal from
a boy who expects to go over
there, and try to rise out of the
hog pen of your slackerism and
if you won’t do anything to help,
at least quit trying to hinder by
this complaining.
This boy says:
They say, who have come back
from Over There, that at night the
troubled .earth is carpeted with pain.
They say that Death rides whistling
in every wind, and that the very
mists are charged with awful torment.
They say that of all things spent and
squandered there young human life is
held least dear, It is not the pleas
antest prospect for those of us who
can yet feel upon our lips the pres- 1
sure of pur mother’s good-bye kiss. 1
But, please God, our love of life is :
not so prized as our love of right.
In this renaissance of our country’s
valor we who will edge the wedge of
her assault make calm acceptance of
its hazards. For us the steel-swept
trench, the stiffening cold —weariness,
hardship, worse. For you for whom
we go, you millions safe at home —
what for you? We shall need food.
We shall need care. We shall need
clothes for our bodies and weapons
for our hands. We shall need terri
bly and without failure supplies and
equipment in a stream that is con
stant and never-ending. From you
who are our resource and reliance,
who are the heart arid hope of that
humanity for which we smite and
strive, must come these things. Buy
your country’s bonds and savings
stamps. Buv them today! They
are investments made safe for the
people- They are in the highest pos
sible sense a security of the people,
by the people for the people. They
can be had in denominations so low
and on such terms that virtually ev
ery citizen of this nation may share
in the benefits they bring and the
purposes they serve- They are today
the safest possible investment in the
world. Buv them as the mainspring
of our holy endeavor. As your duty
to the cradle and your fealty to the
tomb, buy them. Buy them today!
Citizen Soldier No. 258.
—th Dist. Nat’l. Draft Army.
There is a third class in our coun
try today and that is the well-in
formed, red-blooded, noble-heart
ed TRUE AMERICAN. The
man, woman or child_ who gives
his ALL, uncomplainingly, and
ashamed of the tear which falls
from a broken heart, the woman
who gives her sons and all the
money she can get, the man who
gives his time, money and brain
if he is too old and too tied down
to volunteer. To this class we
believe John Sharpe Williams of
Mississippi belongs. He says:
I suppose most of you are like me
What have you done? I have given
. all the spare revenue I could get to
the country; I have bought bonds: 1
have put in my little SI,OOO for war
savings stamps —all the government
will allow you to take of that kind of
security. lam collecting from every
source that I can in order to lend the
money to the Government at 4 per
cent, when I can get 6 per cent for it.
in Mississippi. I am not doing it,
tl ougb, with any idea that I am mak
ing any sacrifice after I have done it
all. What have I sacrificed? Ju*t a
few luxuries: that is all. Perhaps I
will have to smoke cheaper cigars,
and I will have to do without a few
things that I would like to have —a
new suit of clothes right now, for iu
stance, when this one is dingy. What
of it? If we lose the war we lose all;
if we win, we win much that is better
than clothes or cigars or bonds. But
what of it? What have we done in
comparison with the boys who are go
ing “over there’’? They have got to
stand. What do they want? First,
they want reenforcement just as rap
idly as you can give it to them; next
they want ammunition and guns; and,
third, they want food. “Third,” 1
say, not “first.” They will manage
to get food some way for a while, if
they have to live on the corn in the,
field. Stonewall Jackson’s men made
the great valley campaign upon corn
gathered from the field. Ido not say
that is the best way, but I saw the
first thing is men, the next thing is
munitions, and the third thing is food
Do you imagine that there is no
food in France and none in Switzer
land or Spain or the Argentine or
Cape Colony or India, and none in
England? Do you imagine that ours
is the only country in the world with
any food? What is all this talk I
hear of danger of Americans starving?
Does anybody believe it? Suppose
we have to take a beefsteak less now
and then, or a mutton .chop less here
and there, or a cup of chocolate less
than in another place, or a little bit
less of sugar, would we be any less
healthy or stroag or wise or good? I
think there has been too much of
that talk; that hysteria in fact; and it
has given too much comfort to the
enemy.
Suppose vie here and now center
ourselves upon the idea of putting
men in France, putting men in France;
THE BULLETIN, IRWINTON, GEORGIA.
letting the men carry ammunition.
Danton said, "What is the first way
to win the French Revolution? First,
audacity. What is the next? Au
dacity. What is the third? Audaci
ty —“encore l’audace.” So it is
with this thing. The way to win this
war is men in Fiance with guns, more
men in France with more guns, more
men in France with more guns, as
well trained as you can get them; if
you cannot get them trained to suit a
West Point graduate, than trained
well enough to do their part at any
rate.
Thus speaks a man with the
spirit that we believe ninety
eight per cent of the 99 million
Americans on this side have.
Have you got it? Line up Come
across. Place yourself. Where
do you belong.
Party for Debutante
One of the most enjoyable and large
ly attended sopial affairs of the year
was the “coming out party” given by
Mr and Mrs J. T. Hatfield for their
daughter, Miss Eloise Hatfield, Wed
nesday evening, June 23.
The earlier hours of the evening
were enlivened by music, and with
well rendered readings by Mrs Orian
Wood Manson, and Miss Gertrude
Freeman. A contest writing an
acrostic in rhyme, using as first let
ters of lines the words ‘ Thrift Stamp,’’
resulted in a tie between Miss Edna
Earle Raines and Mr Flemming
Bloodworth, the latter being fortun
ate in drawing lots. A promenade
was enjoyed after this contest and
then cream and cake were served-
About fifty guests were present to
welcome Miss Hatfield into the social
life of of the grown folks where her
pleasing manner will make her a gen
eral favorite.
The young men who left for Camp
Gordon were among the invited guests
at the party.
Mt. Carmel New, Modern
Three Room School
Saturday, June 22, patrons of Mt.
Carmel school district met and were
practscally unanimous in their con
demnation of the present method of
having one-teacher schools. A plan
was decided upon for the building of
a nice, three room building to be e
rected immediately. Several contrib
uted one hundred dollars each; oth
ers less, and the amount pledged ou
the spot amounted to between eight
and nine hundred dollars, besides a
large playground for the children.
There are a great many children of
school age in this section and a High
School has been needed very badly for
a long time. This promises to be one
of Wilkinson county's largest and
most progressive schools.'
The patrons of this section have de
cided to give their- children a chance
at last, and future years will demon
strate the wisdom of this move on
their part.
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Mrs W. T. Gibbs' music class and
friends enjoyed a picnic a Sandy last
Friday. The time was spent in the
creek, swimming, and a very nice
and appetizing dinner gave strength
to the swimmers for their afternoon
sport.
Mrs J. J. Ragan, Miss Ethel Hill,
Mrs Hill, Claire and Ellen Carswell,
George and Jane Adkins and Mr Ju
lian Carswell spent Tuesday in Ma
con.
Commissioner’s report will
be finished next week.
\ Seventeen young men left for Camp
Gordon Thursday.
Mrs Ira Burkett of Macon, Mr and
Mrs Lem James of Dry Branch vis
ited relatives the past week.
Mr Ernest Bragg spent several
days at home from the aviation field
in Texas, this week.
Mr and Mrs J. W. Hancock of
Macon visited relatives in town Mon
day.
Mr and Mrs G. H. Carswell, Mrs J.
J. Ragan. Misses Aileen and Emmi
mac Pritchard, Mr Julian Carswell
went to Atlanta last week in the for
mer’s new Peerless.
Rev and Mrs Boland visited rela
tives in Thomasville this week.
Edwin S. Davis. Pres. J. T, Clements, Treas. E. W. Lipford, Sedtv i
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Write us or see us about our CULTIVATORS, and
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C. H. CATES, Cashier.
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Little Helen Adkins is improving
from recent illness.
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Miss Carol Nesbitt entertained sev
eral friends at a six o’clock dinner
Tuesday evening.
Mrs W. H. Parker visited her
mother at Mcßae this week.
Miss Sarah Gouldsby came d^wn
from Macon to Miss Hatfield's party.
Miss Lola Hatfield has returned
from G. N. & I. Summer School.
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