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THE MIULEOOEVILtE NEWS
MILLEDGBVILLB, GEORGIA.
5ocialait6 Jpfctsoital
What Will Disarmament Conference Do?
' By THOMAS GORDON WATTS
IT CLUB
yOU LIKE
, tE rTAINED.
1 ls ,, )M .l Alien was hostess to
Ills
It” Club Friday
, As You Like
ut her home on Montgom-
the conclusion of
refreshments
spending several weeks with her son,
W. Spear Mr. Williford Sueur
came down from Atlanta Sunday to
spend the day with his parents.
Iternoon
street. At
game delicious
, e r e served.
iRI DGE LUNCHEON.
pretty’ party of the past week
( he bridge luncheon at which
£ floride Allen, entertained Fri-
afternoon at' her home in Mid-
Miss Nona Jennings visited Mrs. C.
F. Stone for several days last week.
She is a very attractive young lady
from Macon.
Mr. and Mrs. C, W. Spear and chil
dren spent last Saturday at the fair.
Included
the members
Miss
i3 a member. Mrs. Terry Trea-
Mr3 steve Thornton, Mrs. J. A,
t0 « ‘ V Mrs. Hettle Oompton,
Charles Barrett. Mrs. M* M
Mrs
Flemister
Mrs. M. A. McCraw and
Kate Thrash.
MISS STONE HOSTESS.
Miss Fannie Sue Stone was hostess
at a bridge Tarty Saturday afternoon
jn honor of Miss Rebecca Hearn, of
Katonton, who is the guest of her
sister, Mm. J. I. Garrard
After the game a delicious salad
course was served.
Never, perhaps. In the history of war In 1914, had only cost about $23,-
The friends of Mr. and Mrs. I.ainar
ani will regret to know that they
jxpect to move to Macon at an early
date.
Mrs. Thrash, of Atlanta, spent the
week-end here the guest of Miss Kate
Thrash.
Mr and Mrs. Earl Spear were
made happy November 1 when little
“Helen Elizabeth” came to live with
them.
Mrs. Margaret Spear has returned
to her home at Danville, Ga , after
SERIES OF PARTIES
FOR VISITOR.
Mrs. Thrash, of Atlanta, who was
,he guest of Miss Kate Thrash Sun-
<tay and Monday, was extensively en
tertained during her short stay here.
Mrs. J. A. Callaway entertained a
few friends at luncheon n her honor
Monday. Mrs. W. T. Hines compli
mented her with a bridge party in
the afternoon, while Mrs. E. A. Tig-
aer war hostem at a bridge party in
the evening.
OFF TO CONVENTION.
Mrs. !•-. It. Hinor, Mrs. Dixon Wil
liam!.. l.irs. Charlca Moore ami Mijs
noride All .1 left yesterday for Sa-
vannah, where they went to attend
the Stale Federated Club Convention.
Mrs. Hip . " president if the
Tenth Di.t: ict. Mrs. Dixon WIN ams
as president of ths MillsJg .ille
Woman's (’tub, Mrs. Charles h tore
represented the county federal ion,
while Mlro Floride Alien went im ap
pointee from r e local club.
/LOST—Baby band ring, fancy cut
Lost between Joseph’s .corner P.nd
the postofl'lce. Reward to finder by
returning to Blrma Hartzog, at 208
dcreven street.
$2,000,000 IS GIVEN
GEORGIA FOR ROADS
MUSIC CLUB WILL MEET NOV. i4.
The Mozart M; sic Club will meet
on November It at 3 o’clock with 1
Miss McClure at the Newell House.
Anyone who wishes to join the club
is urged to be present at this meeting.
To become a member one must be
between the age of six and twelve,
inclusive, and must either be study
ing music now or planning to study
during the year. Dues for the year
are twenty-five cents and are payable
at the next meeting.
Following is the program for this
month:
Roll call; answered with notes of
interest about Mozart.
Piano. “Magic
•May Gilstrap.
Story, Mozart's Life—Elizabeth
Stewart.
Piano, “Minuet"—Dorothy -Talks.
Songs (a) The New Pelisse; (b?
The Little l.and—Louise Jeanes, /Ann
Hone, Frances Bone, Marteal Smith,
Laura Mae Gilstrap. Katherine Cline.
Piano, ‘Gavotte"—Carol Butts.
Piano, mjniet, *'Don Juan”—La
Vera .Morgan
PERSONAL MENTION
Mrs Lloyd Brown has returned to
ber home in Gainesville after a visit
to her parents. Judge and Mrs. Allen.
Mrs. J, H. Beusse, of Athens, and
Mr - «nd Mrs. W. R. Nisbet, of Ma-
e°n, were the guests of Mrs. A. D
Nisbet Thursday and Friday. A
Mis/ Victoria Nisbit attended thi
Sigma ( hi house party at Georgia
this week-end as tho guest of Mr.
■ !a ‘k Williams and John Mobley.
Mrs K. C. Smith has been Bpending
L e past few days with her mother,
Stone, while Dr. Smith was In
Mrs.
Baltimore with Dr. John W. Mobley,
"Lo has been quite ill.
J. \V. Mobley Is with relatives
In Augusta.
Mli
L ih
Garrard, at Midway
Rebecca Hearn,*of Eatonton,
guest of her sister, Mrs. J. I.
Washington, Nov. 9.—A federal aid
road fund of approximately two mil
lion dollars is today practically avail
able for Georgia, following adoption
u the house of the conference report
n the good roads bill. The senate is
expected to accept this conference
- oport within a few days. The bu
an c? public roods of the depart,
neat cf agriculture informed a news
paper man that Georgia’s allotment
of the JTu,uC'0,Oi>0 roads bill would b.
$1,997,937.
Cf the amount allocated to Goot
jia roads, which is to bo matched by
state appropriations, $605,983 will hn
callable''at once and t.:o balance
r the two million dollar allowance
vill become available January 1. The
oill provides that $25,000,000 aopro
priated for the Qntlro country shall
.je allocated at once, and $50,000,000
made vailable at the beginning of the
new year. Signtvre of the bill by
the president will end the interrup
tion to road work, in Georgia and
most other states, which came when
federal finds were exhausted Iasi
June. The legislation will ali-o re
duce unemployment.
The original roads bill, which has
been corrected in conference, was
not satisfactory to the highway com
mission of Georgia and other stales.
This bill proposed to create a federal
highway commission to supplant the
)ute .. xaura department of agriculture in tho ad
ministration of the federal road fund.
The house won out over the senate
In the conference committee and the
highway commission plan was aban
doned. Opponents of this plan said
It meant further centralization of
power in federal boards located at
Washington am’ would result in a dl-
munition of the rights of states in se
lecting highways for Improvement.
They Insisted upon retention of
the present road plan and as agreed
upon the bill leaves the department of
agriculture, through its bureau of
public roads, to administer the fed
eral appropriations for highway con
structlon.
That the final passage of the roads
bill will aid the unemployment situ
ation throughout the country was the
belief expressed by the senate and
house conferees in the report taken up
in the lower chamber. Referring to
the appropriation of $75,000,000, the
conferees said: “As many months
have elapsed since the pa sage of the
bill in tho senate, it was deemed ad
viaablo by the conferees and
agreed that $25,000,000 shall be im
mediately available and the other
$50,000,000 shall be available January
1 1922. This action was deemed wise
on account of the unemployment sit
uation throughout the country and
the fact that it is a favorable time
,o secure contracts for the construe
tion of roads at greatly reduced
cost."
Th
friends of Mr. George Case will
■d to learn that he is ahlo to be
lain after being confined to his
lor several weeks
the world, were the eyes of so many
milions of people turned upon such
a small group of men—except, pos
sibly, the Versailles jieaco conference
—as will be upon that small group
who make of the delegations- froi.i the
various countries to the disarmament
conference which convenes in Wash
ington, D. C„ on Armistice Day, Nov
ember 11.
This is the question in the minds
of hundreds 6f millions today—in the
United States, in Great Britain, on
che continent of Europe, in Canada,
In South America, In China, in la-
pah, in Australia, in India, and ot. jjr
countries of the world. For the civ
llized world seems to feel that never
oefore were there such great issues
at stake, not even during the darkest
days of the world war! There is
feeling, I dare say, all over the world,
that this conference may be the be
ginning of the setting into operation
of tihose agencies by which war can
be abolished, or It may result In the
intensification of tfhose commeicial
and racial rivalries which speed ike
human race on its way to physical
destruction! It depends upon what .the
conference does. And what^t’e con
ference may do depends nu-m wh,-.t
it can do—and what it can uo In turn
depends upon public sentiment, not
only In America, but in the vaiio s
countries represented at the center*
ence. If the people of these • i.uu.tries
want war abolished, it is largely
within their power. The aUVuUe of
the people should bo clear and duels,
ive, and there should be no uncertain
support of tie delegates it tho ton
ference. It is to be hoped that llu
public will express itself in no ml
certain terms, and that the news-
capers cf this and all other countries
uiay accurately and Intelligently re-
led public sentiment.
What should be the attitude of t.'.e
huicb in this matter?
Does r.ct the church stand for t ni-
versal fence? It does seem, then,
hat the time hae come when the poo
,le of the church should declare war
ipen war, when they shout! Insist
that rational methods be loiind lor
•he settlement of dispute i between’
ntaioiis. as well as between Individual
Ehrlstians/iustead of arm a m ant a and.
recurring wars which bleed human
ity to deajh, destroy millions of lives
and wreck millions of homes’ War
must be 'rejected and outlawed, even
as murder, robbery, slavery, th 1 * sa
loon, and lfscentlousnesa have been
forever banned as legitimate features
of civilized, Christian life.
The protestant church will, o'
course, have nothing to do with the
union of church and state, nor the
meddling of the church in the affairs
of civil government. But this is a
matter that Is beyond the power of
the state—and the Issue rests, more
.han anything else, upon th" moral
and religious forces of the world.
Said General Tasker H. Bliss: "Tho
responsibility Is entirely on profess
ing Christians of the United States.
If another war like the last one should
come, they will be responsible.” Wo
will fully agree with General Bliss If
he will say that the responsibility
Tests upon the professing Christians
Christians of the civilized world, but
more upon the Christians of America
than of any other country.
Wo believe that this Is a cause
that all the peoples of the civilized
world must espouse, if they would
escape not only the financial burdens
of war, which lick up 80 to 90 per
cent of our revenues, but above that
save the white r - *om physi
cal destruction! I quete some sta
tistics below, gathered by the fed
eral council of tho Churcu of Christ
in America:
Loss of life, 1914-1918:
Killed in battle 19,658,000
Died of disease, famine,
etc
Decrease in birth rate,
white race .-40.500,000
000,000,000. In other words, from 1914
to 1918, the nations of the world spent
more than fifteen times as much for
war than they had spent in th? 120
years'before! We see,.therefore, that
war costs increase in disastrous pro
portions and only a few years of war
would lick up the total wealth of the
entire world!
And hore is the deficit we face as
the result of that war:
National debts:
America $1,028,000,000 $24,974,000,000
England 3,485,000,000 39,314,000 000
France . 6,346,000,000 46,025,000 000
Totals $10,859 000,000 $110,313,000,000
Wo see from the above figures that
the recent war has saddled upon us
a national debt which Amounts to ap
proximately one-tenth the value of all
the property in the United States;
and that.Great Britain, France, and
the United States together are now
burdened with national debts, largely
due to the war, equal to nearly one-
half the value of the property In the
United States!
Then, upon top cf this back-break
ing burden there is another, army and
navy appropriations, as follow's:
America .$244.177-."00 $1,422,752,000
England — 351,044,000 1.121,318,000
Japan — {>3 576,000 282.357,000
Bear In mind that the above are
Jhe appropriations for but one year.
Under the present race in armaments,
and the ratios of increase as shown
by comparison of the tables at)eve,
there is no telling what appropriations
might have to he ten years hence I
Take the national debts of Great
Britain, France and the United States,
figure the interest on the same, and
you will find that it mounts up to*
more t! an five and one-haif billions
a year! which should be enough ot run
the governments of all these coun
tries, build all tho highways wq want,
open up all our rivers and harbors,
pension our soldiers, fight the boll
weevil—and then ieave ynclo Sam
plenty of "change” to rattle In his
pockets!
Can the wprld stand such a drain
on its resources? If the ratio of in
crease for armaments keeps up us it
has for the past ten years, the cost
of war will scion exceed not only the
increase of wealth in ’ the world—it
will eat up tho wealth of the world!
The Allies won the war—Germany
is whining the economic war! The
treaty of Versailles, however bitter
for Germany, is nevertheless a God
send to her people financially. Com
pelled by the Allies to disarm. Ger
many is now rid of her bloated bud
gets for armaments—and tho yearly
amounts Germany has to pay on re
parations to the Alllesi Is far less
than either England, France, or the
United States spent last year on arm-
ments, and far le38 than Germany
herself would 'have paid out for anna
ments had sho been permitted t®
arm.
Germany is hard at work producing,
preparing to supply the world mar
kets. while British and American la
borers are striking and theartening
strikes for higher wages; production
In all these countries Is falling behind;
British, American, French and Japa
nese governments building greater
navies and armies—-helping the world
on to suicide! It may not be Ger
many’s good sense, but circumstances,
and the foolishness of the Allied peo
ples, which place her In this advan
tageous position. But if things go
on as they are going now, the Allies
forcing Germany to work and le6
armaments alone, Germany will have
her resources in manufactured goods
and Industries, be in position to mas.
ter world trade—and the Allies will
haVe their resources tied up in army
and navy equipments, which in turn
must be Junked for more expensive
equipment; the backs of their people
breaking under economic burdens be
side which the present burdens would
be small. It will be remembered
that the Allies won the war ot 1914-
1918—but it will also be realized that
Germany won the war for world
trade! «
lut the economic burden Is not the
main burden ot war! Wlhy should
we toll and sweat, only to throw the
proceeds of our hard labors Into the
flaming, hungry mouths ot the gods
of war? But even this is small com
pared to the human and spiritual side
ot 1L Why should tho mothers of
the world be called upon to “pass
through the valley of the shade of
death" to give their stregnth ot body,
mind and soul to the bearing and
rearing of children, only that they
may be blown to bits as “cannon fod
der,” their lives licked up by the hel
lish flames of war wtafch not God but
the devil pnly promotes?
“Let dogs delight to bark and bite,
for God hath made them so, *
Let bears and I*"**" growl and fight.
For ’tls their nature to j’*
Bland offj as It were, and look
on a world of hations spending all the
proceeds from their toll, sapping their
energies, straining every nerve and
fibre In the effort to build more and
more engines for destruction of hu
man life—and tbls conclusion of the
seer of bygone days wll Inevitably
come to you ‘‘what fools we mortals
(Continued on Last Page)
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Nearly as many people as are in
tho United States, the most powerful
country In the world!
The money cost of the war:
World war, 1914-1918.$186,000,000.000
Property loss, result
ot war $109,OOlJ,000.000
To tal - $335,000,000,000
About ono and one-half times the
estimated value of all tho property
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