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WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 10, 1918.
THE MILLEDGEVILLE, NEWS.
MILLEDGEVILLE, QEORou
THE MILLEDGEVILLE MEWS
ISSUED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING.
Published by the NEWS PRINTING COMPANY, Inc.
Entered as mail matter of the second class at the
Milledgeville, Georgia, Postoffice.
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J. C. McAULIFFE, President.
H. E. McAULIFFE, Secretary and Manager
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A Modern Declaration of Independence.
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HERE'S WHERE WE COME IN
Now that the government has made announcement of a
plan contemplated to prorate the amount of print paper
to t o consumed by the newspapers of the country, a good
opening has been made for the enlightenment of a few' of
ficial agencies who undertake to literally storm the desk
of every editor in the country with matter totally unsuited
for publication.
Tons of the literature sent out hy the government by
pseudo-officials to the newspapers of the country is receiv
ed hy editors in every mail each day, none possessing local
appliance, except in the case of some sudddenly created
ruling relating to commercial activities. In this latter
ease, it wculd almost necessitate an associate in the edit
or's office in order to he cer.ain not to get the worthwhile
matter mixed with the thousands of absolutely worthless
junk gotten up by some inexperienced fellow whose lack of i
gumption formerly went to make him as imp rtaut in his
community and his country as an extra “t” would he in
.spelling the word twice.
As to the part the newspapers of this country are taking
In advancing new ideas and methods tor the betterment of
their respective communities, the general ptbiic itseil
openly concedes, yet there are those who comiuue in tha.r
persistence to dictate as to the publicity to be applied
in bringing about some desired accomplishment. To the
man v. ho has made it his business to give up, almost, ia
great part of his s ltep, time and energies in order to solve
local problems, such stuff us commonly reaches the desk
of a newspaper editor from the hands of s me seif-exalted
office chap is hiked upon, with all due respect, as an epistle
carryir. , v. uh it every ear-mark of pathos.
The absoluie waste of paper is as in-excusable as this
time as the lavish squandering oi uny other necessary
item, but for the sake of reason and common sense, let us
HEN, in the course of human events, it becomes
necessary for the people of a democratic, liberty-
loving country to light unto death for the prin
ciples they hold most dear, a decent respect to the opin
ions of mankind requires that they should declare the
causes which impel them to wage a win-or-die war.
We hold these truths to he sell-evident, that all nations,
great and small, are entitled to their place under the sun;
that all human beings are endowed by their Creator with
certain inalienable rights, whether they live in Belgium,
Serbia, France or travel upon the high seas in peaceful)
ships of commerce; that among these, are life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights those
governments of the people, for the people and by the peo
ple, have banded together in one cause and with on pur
pose against that government and the slavish subjects of
that government which seeks to overthrow liberty through
out the world and to crush democracy beneath the cruel
heel of the autocracy of might. For long and many years
this power of military might and inhi man greed threaten
ed tue peace i the world and the freedom ot all peoples,-
but still we were patient and hoped that the light of just*
e i.iiu honor might break through the cloak oi militarism
,nto the hearts ot the German people and that reason might
come to the German government. But' when a long train
of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the uauie
object, evinced a design to reduce all tlier nations :.n •
peoples under absolute despotism, it became our right, it
became our duty, to fight uiat r. ler, that government, tiiai
people with all of our resources of men and money, food
and bullets. The history of the present kaiser ;f Germany
is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all hav
ing, in dirct object, the establishment oi an absolute ty
ranny over all peoples and all nations. To prove this, let
facts be submitted to a candid world:
He has committed outrageous crimes against American
citizens upon the high seas.
He nas wiltully and needlessly murdered American wom
en and children. *
He has tort red and slain prisoners of war.
He has violated every known law of war.
He has violated every international law which stood in
his courso ef brutalized warfare.
He has murdered non-combatants, even including little
He has made bonfires and heaps of ruins out of church,-
babies. ^
cs and hospitals.
He nas sunic hospital ships.
tie lias made war upon Red Cross workers.
lie has fomented plots against the I'nKed States and in
every other country which resisted his power lust.
He has committed unforgivable crimes against the fe
male population of conquered territory.
He lias torn up treaties and scorned the rights of hu-
manity.
lie has plunged the world int: this war, and hy so doing,
has become the arch-murderer ot all time and the slayer
of more human beings than all other murderers of-all the
world w ithin the last severel hundreds of years.
We, therefore, the people of ihe United Stales of Ameri
ca, on this Fourth of July, do solemnly publish and declare,
that the United States of America will exert its last r anee
of strength, will give its last man, will spend its last dol
lar. and will fight to the last day of our existence as a free
nation, to the end that our foe, the-enemy of humanity,
justice and liberty, may be defeated; that the final victory
may be so complete, so decisive that never again will Ger
man autocracy and militarism threaten the peace of the
world nor the liberty cf the inhabitants thereof. And for
the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the
protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to
each other, that we will oan of our savings for War Sav-
i-ie-s Stnnns ;>n<’ T tberH* 1 oins. tint we will give ef our
THE JOY TO BE.
Oh, mother, be you brave of heart and
keep your bright eyes shining,
Some day the smiles of joy shall start
and you shall cease repining;
Beyond the dim and distant line the
days of peace are waiting
When you shall have your soldier fine
and men shell turn from hating.
Oh, mother, bear the pain awhile as
long ago you bore it.
You suffered then to win his smile,
and you were happier for it.
And now you suffer once again, and
bear your weight of sorrow,
Yet you shall thrill with gladness when
he wins the glad tomorrow.
Oh, mother, when the cannons roar and
all the brave are fighting.
Remember that the son you bore the
wrongs of earth is righting,
Remember through the hours of pain
that he with all his brothers
Is battling there to win again a happy
world for -mothers.
(Copyright 1918 by Edgar A. Guest.)
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GEORGIA—Baldwin County.
I will sell at public outcry, before
the court house d:or in said county,
■>n the first Tuesday in August, 1918,
between the hours of Sheriff s sale,
to the best and highest bidder, for
cr.sh, the following property, to-tvit:
1 powers 6 A. M. P. machine No.
21582 complete with 2 w\e shutters
t> 2-4 in. M. P. 27 in Steno lenses and
Rheo.
Said property levied on and will
be sold under and by virtue cj' a mort
gage execution from the countv court
of said county in favor of John W.
Hutchinson vs. Arthur Davis, as the
property of the said Arthur Davis.
S. L. TERRY, Sheriff,
Baldwin Countv, Georgia.
K. C. Beck, rabbit king of Kansas,
has promised to give every Kansas
negro drafted into the army the left
hind foot of a rabbit.
Schlitz Famo
Goes Through a Pulp Filter
not make judges of the matter cat of men who have proven I
.. , , .. v money for war taxes without complaint, that we will sup-
themselves disqualified in/looking alter their own little , ,^ rl wit 110m aoi ;ua una oul . tlu , a UBd CrL . KS and aJI otndr
personal affairs, let alone nictate to men who have given j war charities, that we will produce and conserve food as
a greater part ot their lives in looking alter their own-1 requested hy the food administration, that we will not seek
chosen, and successful profession, that of seeking to do on0 P®nny of excess profits during the period of war, that
,, . . , . . /wi* whe are able, will go “over there to the trenches of
gcod to the people and the country, touch blunders on.y > our allies, that we will utter no word which will interfere
tend to weaken the wheels of progress and give full sway with our country's war aim, and that we will not fail, to
to the fruitless idea of those merely capacitated to exer-j utter such words as will keep the people’s spirit staunch
cise judgment equal ,o the worth of a stamen w ithout an I ani \ tru ® an<1 flrnl -
. The signers ore as follows:
EVERY I,OYAL AMERICAN OF THE
REST
ROOM
Milledgeville, Ga.
For our friends—you are
welcome. Come to town,
make yourself at home and
bring your friends to the
Rest Room.
Supported by the City and County
Government, Merchants and Inter
ested Friends.
WOMAN’S CLUB.
—then through a sterilized pi w
line to glass-lined tanks in a cool
cellar for aging,
A sterilized line carries it to auto
matic filling machines containing
sterilized bottles, thence to Pas
teurization.
This insures absolute purity.
FAM
the worth-while cereal beverag
is good, and good for you.
It is healthful—it is nourishinJ
It has the wonderful hop aromj
It is non-intoxicating. Try it.
On sale wherever soft drinks
are sold. Order a case from
A. ]. Carr Company)
Milledgeville, Ga.
See that crown is branded “Famo”
Made Milwaukee Famed
NOTICE
This Is to notify all parties that
sand moved from my place must be
paid for before moved. It will be
itrictly cash, with no exceptions.
J. B. COX.
drove's Tasteless chill Tonic
restores vitality and energy by purifying and en
riching the blood. You can soon feel its Strength
ening, Invigorating Effect. Price 60c.
Grocery Business For
My store containing a g"od ij
fresh groceries for sale. J.oratj
most prominent corner in town,
cr called Tor war service.
S. A. WHITMIRE, Gordon,
*■*-
Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Day
Your druggist will refund money If
OINTMKNT (nils to cure snv
Blind,Bleedingor Protruding Pi._-
Xhe first application gives liste andf
anther.
Dealing with this subject, the Albany Herald has the fol
lowing to say:
If there is any agency of inexcusable paper-waste-
age greater than the government, it has not come to
light. Every department in the givernment, the Com
mittee on Public Information, every big and little bu
reau, the Food Administration, state and national, and
all the various and sundry official and semi-official
hoards and councils maintain publicity bureaus, or
have regularly employed publicity men, w r ho burden
the mails daily with their publicity stuff, sending out
great quantities of high-grade paper-<j every newspa
per, big and little, daily and weekly in the country.
If the Herald were to print all the stuff of this kind
which it is urgently requested to print for patriotic
reasons, it would have no room for telegraph news, ed
itorials or advertisements. The news editor’s wasto
basket is filled with it every day. Some of it may be
good enough to print, but such a greater preponder
ance cf it is just plr.in "bunk” that a busy newspaper
man with more important things to do has no time to
wade through it and pick out the good iroiu the bad.
The trouble with most of i: is that it is prepared by
men who have no idea what a newspaper wants, or
what the average newspaper reader wants, and from a
news standpoint it is net worth the paper it is printed
on.
The newspapers of ‘.he country take second place to
no oilier agency in their loyalty to the government,
their patriotism in the war, and in disseminating pa
triotic ideas among the people, and they would be the
last to object to a reasonable policy of newsprint con
servation, if such were necessary. Hut to have their
supply of paper reduced while the various departments
x of the government continue such wholesale waste of
good paper would rankle in their l/hsoins.
Let the government set the example in its pa#er-con-
servaticn program, and it will find the newspapers of
the country ready and Willing to do their part, gladly,
and without grumbling.
The matter of conserving newspaper space has been the
problem of newspapers for years and certainly no one is
better fitted to put before the people just such reading
matter as is demanded by the public than the editor who
has spent his days in constantly giving consideration to
this very thing.
l-ast, but by no means least, if this planning to conserve
newspaper was placed in the hands of competent advisers,
we could all expect documents and periodicals which would
prove of more worth to the public.
110,000,000 IN THE UNITED STATES.
WORKING FOR OTHERS
Help win the war;
join the Red Cross
and buy IV. S. S.
BELL’S
Conserve and save—
Dress well; attend oar
Summer Clearance
Sale—SAVE.
Y‘
The folks who keep working in a public-spirited way and
stay on the job can generally get along ubout as well as
anybody else anywhere else and there is no discounting
the fact that many Milledgeville folks are doing mighty
well.
OU tell me that you are tired of working for other
people—that you want to be independent, want to
be your own boss.
If by that you mean that you want to be in a position to
attain certain praiseworthy ambitions unattainable tinder
your present working conditions I have no word cf criti
cism for you.
You should, indeed, make every effort so to arrange mat
ters that yon will gain the opportunity now denied you.
Ilut if it is mere discontent rattier than ambition that mo
tivates yo.r longing lor independence, let me offer you a
friendly word of warnlrtg.
So long a3 you work at all, if you were to live to be a
hundred you could not do anything but werk for other peo
pie, never could you really be your own boss.
The only people in this vast universe of ours who really
are their own bosses are the parasitic idlers—the street
corner loafers and the gilded vagrants who do scarcely one
useful act from year’s end to year's end.
They certainly do exactly as they choose to do. But
what sensible man would want to put himself in their
class?
Presidents, kings, -diplomats, lawmakers, clergymen, cap
tains of industry—there is no one who, if lie can be use
fully engaged, is entirely master ot his comings and geings
lie has certain responsibilities to meet, certain services
to render, which he must meet and render as surely as the
humblest toiler fixed to a definite schedule of hours.
And when the seemingly independent one fails to do his
work properly, lie is as surely penalized as is the toiler
who earns discharge because of shiftlessness or incompe
tence.
The w rid, for that matter, abounds in human derelicts
whose craving for "independence" really masked a reluc
taneo to do work of any kind.
They could not stand being bossed, they proclaimed. So
they struck out for themselves. Then they found that they
could not stand the “bossing’’ of customers, clients, pa
tterns, as the case might be.
“Pecple are so unreasonable," they grumbled to them
selves. "They expect us always to tie at their heck and
call. Hut we have rights of our own and must insist on
them.” » »
From this is was an easy transition to the fatal phlloso
piiy that society owes every man a living. So society does,
f i lie nuvri works diligently and intelligently to earn that
living.
Otherwise there is trouble ahead. No worl» no pay.
That is the rule. And the one who pays is always directly
or indirectly "boss.”
Is it because you are ambitious—or because you are lazy?
If the former, work a bit harder and a bit longer than
you have been doing. Work at home to increase your abil
ity fer bigger things. And keep your eyes open for every
chance to rise.
if the latter, if laziness underlies your discontent, stop
grumbling and buckle down to work. This really is the
best way you can obtain the moral discipline you evident
ly need.
(Copyright, 1918, by the Associated Newspapers.)
| 0 ale (Suniiuer [)rested
•j
Utilizing any power to vent personal prejudices and pain
personul ends never pays in the long run, but there lots of
men who have grown old and gray w ithout realizing this
Bleat fundamental truth.
Livestock and kindred agricultural pursuits are going
to pay bigger dividends this season than ever before and
the farmers who want to be on the safe side and at the
same time contribute something to the safety of the na
tion can follow this plan with profit.
Closing out the sale of Su miner Dresses, Voile, Organdies,
Lawn and Musllne, Season's best mbdels beautiful colorings.
LOT 1. Six dresses sold up to $15.00, made of fine quality Sblk
Gingham, choice at fiOJ'O
Lot 2. Seven Dresses made of fine sheer organdies, stripes ami
plaids scld up to $10.00, choice
LOT 3. Eight Dresses, beautiful plaids and stripes, worth up 1 3
$8.50; your choice for J. ?-’-00
Fifty White Vasil Skirts,
very much reduced in price,
$4.00 skirt for $3.00
$3.00 skirt for $2.25
$2.50 skirt for $1.75
One special lot of skirts to
close out at $1.00 Eaach.
100 White Organdie, Vollo
and lawn Shirtwaists, beau
tifully made and nicely trim
med, some are slightly soil
ed, worth up to $1.50; spe
cial sale price 98c.
s'Remnants
[ Special sale cf Remnants and short lengths. See our middle rounl
ter Colored Voile and organdies, sold up to 25c, special sale I ,r '"f
to close out, 15c, Colored oigandies and Voiles, sold up to D‘-|
special sale, price $124 cents.
One lot cf white goods in short iongths, Bars and Stripes, fine and sliee -J
worth up to 35 cents, special price 19c, as long as they last.
100 pra. Misses and Childrens
Slippers, white, dull and pat
ent, 44, 6; 8-11; 11-2. See
our middle counter, at 9Sc
E. E. BELL
Fifty Boys’ "a>h
sizes 2 to «; 8 t0 '
close out at
HALF PRIC E
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