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WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUDY 31, 1918.
TIIE MILLEDGEVILLE NEWS.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GBORflia
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The President And Lynching.
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RESIDENT WILSON so speaks to all of America, for
lynching is now a common enough practice beyond
the borders of the negro belt in which we live, when
j be makes his straiglit-ut call to tne country to see to it
there is no more of it. We can rest assured the lynching
of all sorts we have had since war broke out have been
used with special effect and strength by German propagan
dists to discredit the high motives and hold up to ridicule
the really unselfish ultimate ends of' freedom and democra
cy to which our government has pledged our armies. It
does not, as the President reminds us. sound very well to
he shouting that we are lighting for democracy abroad
when we are shaming and making a failure of some of the
most precious safeguards of democracy itself among our
selves.
He does sound the keynote of the whole lynching situa
tion In this country when he says:
. . . . and above all the men and women in every
community in the United States, all who revere and
wish to keep her name without reproach, will co-oper
ate—not passively, merely, hut actively and watchful
ly—to make an end of this disgraceful evil. It cannot
live where the communtiy does not countenance it.
ARE WE TAKING OUR LABOR SHORTAGE SERIOUSLY?
There is a responsibility resting upon the average man
at this time that demands the ocnsldcration of cur entire
population, from the smallest community to the nation as
a whole, that of doing our part towards mobilizing the max
imum man-power of this country.
It would be absurd in us to contend that prosperity is to
continue without resources and without a lasting source
or labor it wo Id he none the less foolish to conceive of any
possible means of production. It is absolutely necessary
for us to put on our thinking caps and give this matter of
labor serious consideration, as our means of carrying on
the war hereafter greatly depends upon this one important
question.
We can consider this question either in a narrow way,
so to speak, or we can cover a large territory, but it all
winds up with the same answer; we are at war, as a na
tion, and ttye same thing that egosts one section effec.s
another. If we speak of the war and the effect it has bn
MUledgeville, or Baldwin county, or the state of Ge rgia,
or any other state, any application that might he made is
cf no more significance in one place than it is in the other.
District Superintendent Clifford Williams, of the United
States Department of Labor, with headquarters at .Meri
dian, Mississippi, has addressed a letter to the newspapers
in Georgia t; be published for the benefit of the people of
this state, this comm nication dialing solely with the la
bor problem now confronting this country. The facts and
arguments furnished by Mr. Williams are to the point and
when the explanation is made so plain concerning the de
mand and necessity of labor at this time, we can well as
sume what is sotn to follow, If th? war in which we are
engaged lasts much longer and we fail to put forth every
effort to unite our entire labor forces. The letter here
referred to is published in part below:
TO THE NEWSPAPER MEN OF GEORGIA: •
The people of Georgia, in common with those of all
ether states, have been asking themselves this ques
tion:
“How can wo solve the problem of Farm Labor
and the maintenance of our own state industrial
plants, while at the same time patriotically yield
ing that labor which the Government must have
for the Essential War Industries?"
This constitutes the most important question before
the pecplc today. Upon its successful answer de
pends the winning ol' the war with a righteous, endur
ing peace. We must mobilize the maximum man-power
of the nation—not only upon the fighting front, hut
also to swell the ranks of the National Industrial Army
everywhere.
Three things must he done: First, the menace of
idle labor must be abolished, and every able-bodied
man indued to work SIX DAYS PER WEEK; second,
every man must find a man’s jail and make way for j
women in classes of employment where they may he |
used: third, labor must be properly distributed in order j
to avoid congestion, which involves temporary idle- I
ness cf just so much man power, and to promote the
industrial parity of all sections of the country.
With these things accomplished, there will he no
danger of a labor shortage—at least not for months to
come. But our task is a collosal one, demanding the
m st energetic attention. Soon we will have 2,000,000
men in France to feed, clothe and equip, with other
millions coming on. At the sante time we must con
tinually contribute to tlie necessities of our allies.
The state of Georgia Is already orghnized with of
fices of the United States Employment Service at At
lanta, C: lumbus, Macon. Rome, Savannah and Bruns
wick, to which men and women may apply for employ
ment, and where employers may list their labor needs.
Both classes are urged to do this.
Tills is getting close to the point of the work or fight de
mand of the Government and ni able-bodied man need ex
pect to trifle his time away much longer without actually
engaging himself in some kind of productive pursuit.
With more than two million of our most active young
men of this country being f reed to engage themselves in
These words are a sad reminder and'they carry a solemn
weight of truth and authority. The crimes that usually,
provoke lynchings are usually a sort or outgrowing from,
some general condition of fester that they arotse the anger
and passion of the majority sentiment of the community.
Without tiiis sentiment aroused there would he no lynch
ings anywhere. The lynchers never move until or unless
'hey feel certain the ferment all about them has made it
safe. They are unconscious of being governed by this au
thority, hut nevertheless they are. No man was ever
lynched for anything the whole community was not wrought
up about or certain to become so as soon as it teamed of
what had happened.
The Telegraph will ndt attempt to assume what it does
not feel in this condition. It will he a long time before wo
are to stop lynching altogether in this country, granting
it ought to be stopped at once, at any cost and by all
means, fer we still have local conditions, deep-rooted and
ever dangerous to provoke that community rage that m ikes
the rope of the amateur hangman so ready a thing to tie
and pull. But there is a way to stop all hut the least crit-
itisable form of it within a reasonable time, and the Pres
ident has suggested It in his communication to the people
on this matter. We must learn to love and trust the law
of the land, to look to it instinctively aa the righter of all
wrongs, the swift and certain avenger to smite the wrong
doer and the criminal, to regard the hand of unofficial man
as estopped from laying violent hands save to tiring the
perpetrator within the custody cf the courts, there to stand
to his crime. In most of our states men still pay the su
preme penalty lor :u promt} crimes.
It is our mental and spiritual altitude that must change,
is to detest the lyncher more and distrust the law less-.
Even in a country in which there dwells together two wide
ly different races, one long-schooled end refined in its own
pride in a successful and aestheticised civilization, the
other a generation r two cut of savagery, but a half cen
tury out of slavery—side by side the highest and lowest
stages of racial development and grounded in both widely
divergence, ineradicable racial attributes out of. which
grow tlu instinct on the part of the superior that always
governs in the end, his sense of race s. peiority, fineness
and strength over the other—even in such a country there
can be inly ohe offense as a resuli of which to which in«
ti lligent, decent and patriotic people with a proper sense
of their own race superiority may ever land even the color
of tolerance. And many, many, too many, of our lynchings
are for other causes and reasons entirely. None of these
arei inexcusable, they are outrageous, int ierable and we
must stop or the boasted and vaunted superiority of ouv
own race to hold in ward the destniy of the other will he
liable to serious and proper question.
The terrible outbreak in East St. Lot is was pure racial
hatred, an economic qlash in which the race fury flamed
with the greatest tierceness cf all we have had. The re
cent lynching orgy in South Georgia (the Brooks and
| Lowndes counties outbreaks) in which while the crime was
a l earful thing and racially based, perhaps, the least su
perior of the superior rate killed several, beside the actual
I criminals, among the most interior of the inferior race,
was an outbreak of a racial antipathy half based on fear.
The more or less recent C atesville, Pa., burning and the
old Sprugfield riots were purely racial within thirty min
utes after the mob went to work.
What we need to stop it is a greater pride of race among
ourselves of th , Caucasian and controlling element, a high
er and truer instinctive regard for the laws we o rselves
make and apply; and in this present crisis especially ti
constant and unshakable regard for the down in essentials
cf the very principles lor which our armies are lighting.
The President has called for a changed state of mind
among the American people and his call is based not only
on a great man’s natural aversion to violence in the place j 5*
ofordnrly and effective processes, but on a vtal expedi nt. -
an important need in the whole mixed, puzzling and highly
important inter-racial—dynastical and—political condition
t f the world today. We must do nothing here to mess up
the machinery.- Macon Telegraph.
SW.E SUGAR
FOR THE
MAN
VHOi\
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WANTS 322,250 MEN
PLACED IN CLASS 1
Crowder Asks Close Scrutiny Where
1918 Registrants Do Not Average
50 Per Cent.
BIG auctiotTSale
75 REGISTERED BRED
Hampshire Sows and Gilts
At Arles Plantation, Americus, Ga.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 31,1918
All mall bids and wire bids to E. C. Stcne, Sec., Care Arles Planta
tion, Americus, Ga.
Auctioneer: COL. F. H. HULICK, Atlanta, Ind.
Washington, July 30.—Provost Mar
shal-General t'rnwder today informed
state draft executives that more than
50 per cent of the 744,500 registrants
in the 1918 class are expected to he
placed in class one as physically
qualified for general military service
anti instructed them to give "special
scrutiny to the report of any local
board which fails to classify this per
centage,
This estimate, General Crowder said
:r, based upon a study of the operation
if ihe draft and the only exceptions
which will be recognized are in case
j[ cohimunities having a large alien
population, or which have released
iarge numbers of the 1918 class to the
navy, marine corps or emergency fleet
“The national average should be
much higher than 50 per cent, because
industrial, agricultural dependency
deferments and physical rejections
diould be much lower, General
Crowder's message said.
War Savings
crease in value.
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Stamps
-fen
steadily in-
Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days
DruSBlsta refnnd money if PAZO OINTMENT fatli
to cure Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles.
Instantly relieves Itching Piles, and you can get
reatlul sleep efter the first application. TVi - ro..
War Savings Stamp—“Baby Bond’’
—interest 4 per cent.
Grove’s Tasteless chill Tonic
destroys the malarial germs which are transmitted
to the blood by the Malaria Mosquito. Price 60c.
The War Savings “Torch of Liber
ty" stands for the independence we
mean to win lor the world.
Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days
Your druggist will refund money if PAZO
OINTMENT fills to cure anyense of Itching,
Ulind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 lays.
The first application gives Ease and Rest. 50c.
FOR SALE—Pure O. I. C. Pigs, eight
weeks old $10.00 each; pair $10.00.
Mrs. T. A. Napier, Meriwether. Ga.
FOR SALE
My home on Liberty Street. Seven-
room house on McIntosh street. One-
half interest in store occupied by A.
Goldstein. Also several tenant houses.
J. G. BEARDEN.
Better see how your sup
ply of bill headings stands, for
the first of the month is ap
proaching. If you sire short
phone 312.
T7. H. Pood Administration
Ol’ Ttr'er Rabbit better make hi,
so f mighty skeerce en not go tiro
jicl;in’ roun’ whar dere's cookin’
goin’ on. ’cause a rabbit in a tint f.
cr goin’ ter look mighty good to mos’
ennybody fo long ’count er folk,
havin’ ter save on meat. ’hiho.
folks’ll kinder have ter gov,,
wheat flour fer comp’ny en ,. at brood
made outen dis yere “suhmpntt"
flour. Dat wise ol’ owl done sav da ,
to win de war you got ter food
sojer boys dot’s doin’ de fightir!"
Dat s w'at’s takin’ de wheat on meat
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All children troubled with worms have an un
healthy color, which indicates poor blood, and as a
rule, there is more or less stomach disturbance.
GKOVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC given regularly
for two or three weeks will enrich tho blood, im
prove the digestion, and act as a General Streufith-
eningTonicto the whole system. Nature willthen
throw off or dispel the worms, and the Child will be
ip perfect health. Pleasant to take. 60c per bottle.
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Our Store Will Close ev
ery Thursday Afternocry
at One o’clock Until Sep
tember 1st.
Help win the war; buy
War Savings Stamps.
JOIN THE RED CROSS.
The Beginning of the End?
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UK nation has great cause for rdjoicing and giving
thunk-. in the news Until ihe battlelronl. Our armies
ha.-t prtveii to he all til.**, the most optimistic of us
I have ho; t .l for. Against Amerieitr tiaorprise, American
| initiative and American nerve the much boasted training
[ ol Germany has not measured i p to expectations.
| It is another lesson in the effect of democracy. That a
I free and sell-governed people ars tilde to set themselves
I to the task of war and learn Us art within eighteen months
t so well that they aro able to r utmat. h the trained armies
of a nation which has been for forty years in preparation
lor conquest, is assuredly a commentary upon the methods
of autocracy and those of democracy.
Allow all you will for the freshness of American troops,
tholr well-fed condition and tho weariness and depletion of
the enemy, still, our armies would have met reverses and
defeats had they not known their business well and thor
oughly. Surely, if is logical to see that men trained in the
school of independence and free will, with free education
ugtd the splendid sense of self-directicn are going to make
of freedom and democracy, besides the fact that it con- j hotter sold.era, better business men, better statesman and
tinuos necessary for us to help supply our allies, as is I 1:1 everything than those who know nothing more than
made . . n by Labor Commissioner Williams, no sensible.® blind obedience to an autocratic will,
man would attempt to argue against the statement that I 11 would seem, if there yet remains a slumbering spark
wo are going to need everything we can possibly produce l ' lfi <l« sire tor Independence in the heart of the German
during the period of our conflict. I pople that their rulers are taking tho very course most
| likely to fan it into life and power. Tho inspiring words
LET’S STRAIGHTEN UP. 'of President Wilson, protesting sympathy with the Ger-
Honestly, we feel safe in saying that the average man man people and refusing to acknowledge a quarrel with
v ho owes a small debt of four or live dollars gives decided- them, could scarcely arouse them, even if they ever reach-
waging war against Prussianism
and for tHo maintenance
con-
ly more thought to tho matter than dots the man to whom
tho money is owed. This claim, we are quite sure, applies
t, not less than four cases out of live, yet we feel safe in
saying, again, that not more tliftn one man out of tive are
prone to relieve themselves of such fruitless and wholly
unnecessary expenditure of non-productive consideration.
The Milledgeviih News, lor one concern has several hun
dred outstanding small accounts in tho way of small sums,
lnoin one to live dollars or slightly more, due for sub
scriptions. Such small indebtednesses are altogether too
.insignificant, in one sense of the word and do not warrant
weighty attention or serious thought. The one and only
logical solution of a problem > f this kind s to settle ty»
the small account or accounts and relieve your mind of the
triuing affair, as we might j ui it, and then go on about
your business.
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ed their ears, as the deception and treachery of their own I
rulars, as it must now he revealing Itself, scents calculated j
to do.
Certainly we may now look forward to ihe end of the |
war with a degree of assurance which has never before j
been justified. There is still a vast deal to lie accomplished I
but with Austria making signs that look like an appeal for
a separate peace, there are reasons to believe the struggle
will he shortened.
The sinking of tho United States cruiser San Diego at
the doors in Now York dies not dismay is. It is one of
the fortune; of war. Rather are we thankful that the loss
of lifo was so small. We see that it is a question whether
the ship was torpedoed or sunk from an Internal explosion.
We ratlu i expect it was the latter. Germany’s spies are
ill v ry active. We must hang a few. Savannah Press.
CLEARANCE SALE OF ALL SUMMER GOODS
One lot Organdie, Lawn and Mull Dresses, very snap
py styles, formerly sold at $7 .50, $9, $10 and $12, to
close at $6.00
Nine beautiful Organdie and Lawn Dresses that sold at
$7 and $8, to close at $4.98
WHITE WASH SKIRTS GREATLY REDUCED
Lot 1—Eight White Skirts, sold at $1.50 and $2.00. Your choice $1.19
14 White Wash Skirts Sold at $2.50 and $3, to close at $1.98
11 White Skirts that sold at $3.50, $b and $5, to close out at $3.25
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SPECIAL SALE LADIES’ AND GENTS TRUNKS, BAGS AND SUIT CASE FOR
VACATION TIME.
New shipment ladies trunks, — $12, $15 and $19
New shipment of suit cases $6.50 to $15
One Dozen new bags just in by express; black, tan
and brown. Modestly priced for your vaca
tion trip - $6.50, $9.50 and $12
100 Beautiful organ
die, Voile and Lawn
Shirtwaists to be clos
ed out regardless of
former prices; some
are slightly soiled;
worth up to $2; spe
cial sale price —98c
Special Closing Out Sale of
All Lawns Organdies and
Voiles.
Organdies and lawns that
formerly sold at 25c to close
out at 15c
Voiles and Lawns that for
merly sold at 15c and 19c to
close out at 10c
See our middle counter.
E. E. BELL
Special sale of Misses
and children’s Slippers
—white, patent apd,
gun metal—worth up|
to $2; see our middle
counter, find your size,
Choice 75c
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