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WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1918.
THE MILLEDGEVILLE, NEWS.
^MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORg
THE MILLEDSEVILLE NEWS
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AN OPPORTUNITY WORTHY OF SERIOUS CONSIDER
ATION.
ENORMOUS CONSTRUCTION.
ELECTED TO SEAT
IN STATE SENATE
Year after year Milledgeville is becoming more of an
educational center in Georgia and at this particular junc
ture there is a great demand for further development here
along educational lines. These demands are becoming
greater with the passing of each college season and the
slate of affairs is reaching such a point as to warrant ill"
serious consideration of the people of -Milledgeville and the
state ;f Georgia at large.
Wo have here two of the most popular educational in
stitutions in the South and neither are capacitated to fill
the demands made upon them by would-be students seek
ing and ambitious to become enrolled with the college class
es. Yet, neither of these co.leges are in a position t. give
favorable answers to hundreds of parents who have ap
plied for places for their girls and hoys in order that the
many of Georgia's young generation might have the oppor
tunity of receiving a g.pd, wholesome education at a nom
inal expense.
For many years, the Georgia Normal and Industrial Col
lege, decidedly the leading educational institution :'or
young ladies in the South, has been handicapped on ac
count of the lack of more room to give accommodation to
many young girls who have applied for places in the col
lege. Much effort has been put forth in the way of appeals
to bring about a remedy in meeting these demands, though
the state lias made sufficient appropriations only to enable
the college to care for a small number of the students hav
ing heretofore been necessarily refused places in the col
lege on account of not having sufficient room to accommo
date them.
Now we are confronted with a situation at the Georgia
Military College as we have been facing at the Georgia
Normal and Industrial College for a period of ten years.
This year scores of young men have been refused admis
sion to the college on the ground that no places were left
for them and the e nditions as they stand are not at all
too comfortable on account of the dormitories being.crowd
ed beyond reasonable expectation.
We conf ss that right new, particularly, is not a time
for material expansion cf any institution or t nierprise that
could be well put off, but we do say that some extraordi
nary effort should be made to provide room for tlie many
young men who have applied for admission to the Georgia
Military College and the head of this institution deserves
and should have the thorough co-operation of the people
of Milledgeville in bringing abort a solution of this prob
lem. If, owing to unusual conditions, it would not be
deemed advisable to undertake to erect another dormitory
at this particular time, then certainly we should undertake
to make arrangements for caring for additional students
seeking admission to the college by securing a building al
ready erected, which could be converted into a dormitory
without considerable labor or expense.
Whatever may be said or done in regard to the present
demands being made upon this popular college for yo:
men. no time should be 1 st in mapping out plans for its
further expansion and we trust to see, in tlie very near
future, some movement on foot to at least make provisions
to get ereuted "such buildings are are required in order to
keep up with the demand and development of this leading
Georgia educational insiituti:n.
From The Industrial Index.
The total cost of various construction projects under
taken by the War Department since April, 1917, is estimat
ed in a report just issued in Washington at $1,083,766,198
Since war was declared the construction division has un
dertaken 323 distinct operations and up to the end of Au
gust only 93 of these are listed as completed. The cost of
these completed operations, which includes most of the
camps and cantonments, is placed at $277,745,847. Addi
tions and alterations are not figured as separate jobs.
There are now under construction 266 jobs which, it is
estimated, will cost $636,858,351 and practically all of this
will be finished by January 1, 1919. There are a number
of the larger projects and of a permanent character which
will not he completed until October of next year. The de
velopment of eight port terminals will cost approximately
$150,000,000. Of tills sum ?40,000,ii00 will be required for
the Brooklyn army supply base, which, among other things,
will have the largest warehouses In the world. The cost
if o.her port terminals now building are given as follows:
South B.ston. $28,000,000; New Orleans, $10,000,000;
Charleston, S. C„ $25,000,000; Norfolk, $20,000,000; Phila
delphia, $15,000,000; Newark, N. J., $10,000; Newport News,
Va„ $5,000,000.
Many inland projects, including ammunition depots,
quartermaster storehouses, hospitals, ordnance plants and
new training camps, are now in course of construction, but
the most of these will be completed by (he first of the year.
J. H. Ennis, of Milledgeville, was
named a member of the Upper House
of the Georgia Legislature in Wednes
day’s election.
DENIES FRAUD CLAIM.
in re:orence t/ any claim of fraud
in tho Congressional race in Wilkin
son county, Hon. George H. Carswell,
of Irwinton, has issued a public state
ment and published it in the Macon
Telegraph dtnying any such conten
tion. Mr. Carswell was formerly a
member of ihe Legislature from WI1-
THIEVES FALL OUT.
If Turkey and Bulgaria should with typical Balkan
frankness and selfish ambition decide to forget all abo 't kinson county and he is at present a
the great war in which they are involved as German allies member of the State Senate from his
and start to war on each other about the spoils now tern-i ' llorlal c * istric * ; '
porarily within their oint or several hands it- would be as
The Carswell communication
published in The Telegraph is as foi-
big a victory for the Allied world in many respects as |] ows:
would be the occupation of the Hindenburg line by Marshal
Foch’s armies. There is still a great Greek army in Ma-
edonia. British, French and Italian troops along with the
reorganized and never-say-die Serbian army, in considera
ble force out of Snloniki, and if a fight should stir up be
tween the Bulgar and the Turk a mighty hlow at the Ger
man establishment might be struck in that quarter with
safety and full effect.
It is hardly to lie hopes, however, that any such breach,
so fatal on its face to German hopes in the East and Ger
man strength everywhere in its defense against a world in
arms opposed to the powers at Potsdam, will be permitted
to develop. The German system of penetration and con
trol in both countries can hardly have been so soon -disr pl
od to an extent where two such faithful and equally involv
ed fellow criminals as Turkey and Bulgaria could at this
critical moment fall apart. We may then set it down as
intf resting and hopeful but with tlie odds against anything
out. of the situation so soon bring about actual warfare be
tween tlie two jealous robbers.
Even if they sliorld start the threat of Greece armed
and ready to pounce in and retrieve all her ancient glories
in the Levant by cutting their throats separately should
make its appeal finally with such obvious effect they would
agree to lot the loot lie undivided in the face f the greater
danger. That there is, however, trouble between these two
worthies among the smaller nations we may well believe.
They have nothing in common except their joint greed
and that is bound to come to clash eventually with so much
booty within their grasp even though not actually consoli
dated to exploitation. But the Turk though unspeakable
is wily and the Bulgarian though treacherous and cruel
is not all foolish, and Gprmany has not lost her power en
tirely. They will hardly so soon, lose everything to fight
over a bone that may just as well wait until a more pro
pitious time for the disputants to become a gauge of phy
sical encounter.—Macon Telegraph.
A WORD WITH OUR SUBSCRIBERS.
Let’s Have Cotton Price-Fixing if It Will Help
Win The War.
O N JULY 5,
growers am
During the pat i month The News has endeavored
impress upon it3 readers the importance and necessi.y
paying vp their subscriptions by or before the first of Oc
tober next inordtr that we may be in a position to con
tinue to send their papers each week without an interrup
tion. On this occasion wo were taking tlie liberty of calling
attention to this matter in an editorial way In an effort to
more forcibly put this matter up to our subscribert.
The War Industries Board of ilie United Stutes Govern
ment has specifically ruled that all newspapers discontinue
sending papers to subscribers who have not paid their sub
scription in advance, this ruling to become effective after
October first, 1913. So it can well be seen that The News,
as well as all other newspapers, will find it necessary to
put forth Its lies; effor io straighten out its s bucriptton
list between now and the first of next month or let so many
names drop from . ur mailin; lit, 1 , which neither we nor
our subscribers can c ord.
So far our a -omp'.ishmcntB in getting many of our
readers to realize the importun e of their prompt attention
in ( e rales governing newspapers hav< been quite satis
factory, still we hnvt many subscribers Who have not se-
i'i iv . i, i;l.»n-tl out prod: ament and realized the ne
cessity for their co-opernfton in order to avoid interfering
with our subscription list with our first iss.o in October.
Naturally, this matter, as in all otln r similar affairs, is
not looked upon by the individual as being significant.
tlioug
;e) the
rial wi
ffecte
its subscribers
From The Progressive Farmer.
in New Orleans, at a meeting of cotton
and bankers from every important cotton
state except North Carolina, a resolution was adopt
ed asking President Wilson and Congress to create a Unit
ed Stales Cotton Corporation vested with power to buy at
a price fixed by the President, any cotton for which thqre
is no ether buyers. A committee composed of one grower
ancl one banker from each cotton state is now in Washing
ton to lay the matter before the Administration.
There can be only one answer to the question as to the
advisability of cotton price-fixing: \Vill it help win the
war? Will it better serve the producer, the manufacturer),
the consumer and the nation as a whole to have price.*
fixed? if it will, then let us have price-fixing.
Southern farmers want no special privileges. Cotton and
cottonseed products are essential raw materials, but South
ern farmers as a class have no desire to capitalize this,
fact. Prices of practically all other important raw ma
terials have been fixed, and if it will best serve the com
mon good to fix raw cotton prices, then by far the large) I
majority of cotton growers are for it.
President Wilson and the War Industries Board, if cot- i
ton prices are fixed, may he depended upon to fix thehti 1
fairly and equitably. Wheat prices have been fixed at $2.20
a bushel, against a pre-war average of SO to 90 cents; pig
ir .n at Birmingham is $33 a ton, against a pre-war price
oi about $9; prices of cotton seed and cottonseed products pastor
have been fixed satisfactorily to producer and consumer; I
and so on all down the line. The aim in every case appar-1
«ntly has been to get an adequate production and at tho !
sioe time do justice to producer, manufacturer, distributer j
and eons. mer. In die case of cotton, we have every reason ;
t l.elleve a similar policy will be followed.
i, st of the members of The Progressive Farmer Staff
■ iituiii farmers and have a personnl as well as general
To the Editor of The Telegraph;
The people of Wilkinson count}
regret that some confusion has
arisen over the Congressional race
in the Tenth district on account
of the action cf the county exe
cutive committee in destroying
the allots after the consolidation
of the votes. That the committee
made a mistake in destroying the
election papers all admit. That
it was not done to defraud, ev
erybody concedes.
No election was ever held in
this county that was conducted
more fairly, and with less feeling.
Not an unkind remark against
any candidate was heard. Every
man voted as he pleased without
any brow-beating or electioneer
ing. Districts that had never gone
for Mr. Watson gave him small
majorities, the managers voting
f r Mr. Vinson. Districts that had
always gone for Mr. Watson went
against him, while all the manag
ers therein voted for Mr. Watson,
four of the ten members of the ex
ecutive committee that consolidat
ed the votes and destroyed the bal
lots. voted for Mr. Watson. The
gentleman who acted as chairman
of the meeting when Mr. Watson
spoke here a few days ago was
present when the votes were con
solidated, and declared then and
now that it was a fair, honest
flection and that Mr. Vinson car
ried tlie county and is entitled to
Its votes. All of the loaders for
Mr. Watson so declare, and will
suppert the nominee. It has been
the custom in this county for ten
years to destroy the ballots if no
notice of contest is filed, this be
ing an error, of course. The chair
man of the committee asked what
was to be done with the election
papers, and a gentleman who has
always been a great friend and ad
mirer of Mr. Watson said ihat it
was customary to burn them, ami
at this statement it was -’one. No
man has or will charge fraud. No
one even claims an irregularity.
No complaint of any kind from a
single voter in the countv has
been heard. The people of Wil
kinson county gave Mr. Vinson a
majority of ninety-seven votes,
and the delegates will no to the
convention at Milledgeville next
Thursday and vote for him for
Congress, and the people of the
county will support him solidly tn
•the November election.
GEORGE H. CARSWELL.
Irwinton, Sept. 14.
father n. j. McCarthy
APPOINTED CHAPLAIN
of Sacred Heart Catholic
Church Left Monday For Fort Moul
trie, S. C.. in Answer To Call Of
War Department.
erest in th
Ice stabilizat
daily do wo
;, bankers a
40 cents ant
problem. And not only do we b<
n will benefit tlie entire industry, b
ellevo it will be helpful to Southern
bu-incus men generally. Cotton m
licv
is til
>t hei-
lt may go to 15—and one Is equally
her. This is no time to gamble on
let us have a stable market, with i
and rens nable returns for our labr
and we 1 - Hove we can trust the Adm
Father I). J. McCarthy, pastor of
Sacred Heart Catholic Church, hn- r •-
celved an. appointment by the War
Department to serve as chaplain in tli.■
United States Army.
Father McCarthy will eb st : lor 1
at Fort Mo-ltrle, S. having lot
Milledgeville Monday morning to t.ikq
up ids duties with the army.
LADIES’
READY-TO
WEAR
First Showing of
Fall Suits, Coats,
Dresses and
Separate Skirts
FIRST WE TALK SUITS
The Styles generally are conserva
tive. There will be no change as the
months go by. Your own good judg
ment will tell you That the Styles
are correct.
w
Our Suits are arriving daily by express.
Materials—Velours, Silvertones, Broadcloths!
son Seal.
Very Moderately priced—
$25
$29.75
$35
$45
$49.50
$55 i
$39.50
and up.
4* TOR THE EARLY
'UVatiS FALL SEASON
September is a good time to buy
a coat.
Nobby styles and unusually becoming
cloths—as Pom-Pons, Velours, Broadcloths,
Piitsh, Coney and Neutria Seals. Priced—
$22 $25 $29.75 $35
$39.50 up to $75.00
D RESSES
Serge Dresses, Jerseys, Satins and
Satin and Taffeta Combinations.
Satin is in great favor in combination with
Georgette.
Serge very suitable for early fall, at very
moderate prices. The newest models, very
smart styles, priced—
$19.75
$35
$22.50
up to
$25
$75
A WONDERFULC^JDTg
SHOWING OF
Something out of the ordi-
New in Styles, new in
nary.
material and new in colorings.
Broken plaids and wido stripes—
very grace, ul models. Specially
priced-*-
$10 $12 $15 $19
$22.50 $25 and up
$5 $6.50 and $7.50
New Lawn and Organdie Shirtwaists. Very smart styles—■
$1 $1.50 $2 $2.50 and 3.00
at
lomc-y's Cafe.
irged r nd
Droved oi
first elm
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it
LADIES’ BLOUSES
Georgettes, Crepe de Chines, Satins, Specially priced for early
fall selling—
100 Shirtwaists slightly soiled, left over, to go cn sale regard-
bus of former prices. Organdies and Voiles. Special sale price
98 cents
We Invite an Early Selection
E. fi. BEL i