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■PHF fv.lU.EDGEVILLE NfeWi OfcNMAKK UPENS New Fairway Will Make Short Route for Large Vessels Go ing Either Way. GSPEHHA6EN TRADE THRIVES New Nation* to the East Open Im portant Market for American Prod uct*—Port Become* Important Distributing Center. Copenhagen.—Denmark's new fair way enterprise through the Drogden channel, southeast of Copenhagen. 1# expected to enhance the deep-draught seafaring trade of the whole Baltic region. The commercial resurgence of < Copenhagen, the "Queen of the Baltic,” which of old defied a lone the German aggressions of the Hanseatic league, la one of the phenomena resulting from I he World war and the Bolshevist el ipse In Russiit. Extensions and Im provements of the Copenhagen har bor, between the Islands of Seeland ('Sjaelland) and Atnager, during tha war und after, c4>st Denmark 50,000,000 kroner. That she Is now lo spend from one to several million kroner to excavate the Drogden ehnnnel, be tween the Islands of Atnager and Snlt- l.olin, is a token of her newly neliieved detatcluneni from wlint Is called "dis- tiosaed Europe." It is planned to clear a shallow In j ke,, position which has hindered deep-draught Bottle truffle. The local waters are iliinffected hy tides, but the uumei-oua shallows of flip Baltic formerly made It possible for only nioderute-slr.ed vessels to visit Baltic ports. Since the war a number of these harbors, besides that of Co penhagen, liuve been excavated to a depth of 28 to 38 feet, admitting large freight steamers. The present Drog den channel hus a depth of 22 feel; the plan Is to excavate l( to 25 feet, with a minimum bottom-width of 825 feet. Passage for Stoamora. This excavation will enable freight steamers to paae through the sound south of Copenhagen, saviug the long detour by w»y of the Kiol canal. Tlio Germans have been contending that the Treaty of ' r ecsalltes does not re quire the opening of the Kiel canal to international shipping, nnd the coun cil of ambassadors has decided to turn the qtiesllon over to the International Court of Justice at The Hague. Any way, tiie Kiel canal, bull! mainly foe military purposes, never has been much of a thoroughfare for nierrhunt- men. The establishment of Hie new Baltic states, Finland. Esthonla, Lat via, f.ithtntnia and Poland, some of which recently have excavated their harho’-s fur deep-draught freighters, milleogeville, ga. Read the Naws Advertisements They will Save You Money. A TRIAL WILL Y? YOU. N othing that we could say would so thoroughly convince you of the value of Chamberlain’s Tablets as a personal trial. We can tell you of thousands who have been permanently cured of chronic constipation, indigestion, biliousness, sick headache and disorders of the stomach and liver, but this will have little weight with you as compared to a personal trial. That always convinces. CMmberlaijtfsT|tl>lets inis made the ucw Baltic market more Important jthun twin- before. Prior lo the war,this ninrkcf was of small Interest to tlte I'niled States. Except for Denmark and Sweden, It was dominated commercially hy Ger many, American imports were neg ligible, and the Stars and Stripes were seldom seen In the Baltic. All this has been changed. Copenhagen, the gateway to the Italtle. Is now entered by an American vessel every fourth day, on an average, the year round. Most of the Americnn exports there still go to Sweden ami Denmark. For the tlst-al year of 11)22, Denmark Im ported $30,000,0f*l worth of Amerkan goods and Sweden $80(600,000. Little as It Is real I red In this country Den mark la as good u costumer ns, for instance, the BraKlIIftn republic whose Imports from the United States for tlte lost fiscal year amounted to $38,- 000,000. The United States shipping hoard, the more Important New York bnnks. many export end Import firms, und other large American business con cerns have general agencies und their own representative# In Copenhagen. Secretary Hoover's ivpresentntlve, Magnus Stvensson, when he went to Europe to supervise the distribution of American foodstuffs In Scandinavia and Ihe Baltic countries unhesitating ly chose Copenhagen for his distribut ing center. The same conditions which determined this choice logically point toward Important co-operation between An.crlcan exporters and Danish tiler- chnnls. The American gets along very well with the Dane, as a rule. Americans directly Interested under stand the Importance of the great market pround the Baltic sea. Den mark and northeastern Germany. Sweden, and northern Russia are the old Baltic trading places, but since the war rapid development lias over come some backward conditions in Finland, Esthonla, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. Combining an area as great as that of France and the I'niled Kingdom and a population only u few millions less than that of France, those new republics will have to he reH-oued with. For the great future trade of tin whole Baltic region Denmark is mak ing preparations and Improving the port of Copenhagen, which is the Dar danelles of tlie north, the port ItPing convenient for transshipment, storage and warehousing. Large steamers bound for the Baltic with cargoes for several ports find it unprofitable to go unloading from one harbor to another. The, use Copenhagen ns a port of transshipment, where there are no duties to pay for goods in transit, and whence they ran have their'cargoes distributed to the various ports of ulti mate destination hy the regular rout# vessels. BLINDNESS FROM BIRTH. hooks that icqulres the physician ot midwiia to. use this preventive. II reads: “That it shall be the duty of any person who shall be In attendance or. any childbirth to apply to the child such prophylactic treatment as may bv prescribed by the State Board of Health to prevent blindness from gonococcus infection. “That any person who shall nurse or attend any infant shall report any Inflammation of the eyes of said child that shall develop within two week* after birth to tbe local health officer or to a licensed physician." 1,766,118 ME SOVIET VICTIMS Astounding Statistics Showing Executions in Rus^ja Since November 7, 1917. of execution nnd wholesale assassina tion was approximately correct. May Explain Famine. The fact I hot practically half #f the ratal number of persons executed were farmers had occasioned some srrnrrlse, nnd Is Interpreted by certain officials ns Indicating that the (seditions among the Russian peasantry have been much worse than commonly be lieved, and ns explaining tcv some de gree the shortage of foodxtuffs In Russia. Stories of religious persecutions In Russia seetn to be borne out by the execution of 28 bishops and 1,215 priests, and unofficial reports received by the diplomat furnishing the statis tics are to the effpet that more church officials have been executed by soviet authorities this year than In any pre ceding year. MAY RUN OR RUIN THE WORLD FARKERS AT HEAD OF LIST “Born blind” means neglect, pure anc simple. We have a harmless preven tive for this kind of blindness; in [act. \\p have a law on our statutt Practically Half Total Number Exe cuted Were Farmer*—Stories of Religious Persecutions Borne Out—Murder 28 Bishops. Washington, D. t.’,—Washington offi cials nnd members of the diplomatic corps are astounded at statistics re ceived here tending to show tHat j 1.700.118 persons were executed in 1 Russia by the soviet government since ! It came Into power on November (, 1917, to the end of 1921. I Tills total is given In what are 1 claimed to he official statistics which have been received here by the diplo- mnlic representatives of a European -country which is generally regarded 1 as noi unfriendly- to the existing ltus-. shin government. Farmers Lead List. According to these statistics tlie per sons executed were classified by the soviet authorities as follows: Farmers, 815,000; Intellectuals, 855,- 250; soldiers, 200.000; laborers, 102,- 350; officers. 54,050; gendarmes, 4S.- 500; property owners, 12,930; police officers, 10,500; physicians, 8,800; pro fessors and teachers, 6,775; priests, 1,215; bishops, 28. The statistics did not Indicate, It is. said, whether the former ('star Nich olas and his family were included In the fateful list. | Some diplomats and officials said j that while it is impossible either to | confirm or refute it officially there was much information to support an assumption that the startling record »'o Cure i Cold in One Day al.f LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE (Tablets.) It .iri.s the Cough er. Headache and works oft the dulii. L. V.'. GKOVE'S signature on each box. UOc Scientist Explain* th* Fore# That Might Result From th# Liber ation of an Atom. London.—By liberation of the atom man tuny some day control * force which will perform the entire work of the world, but if It gets heyoml hts control it may blow the earth and all Its inhabitants to pieces, Doctor' Ash ton of Cambridge declared in n lecture before the British association. The chances of Such a catastrophe are prac tically negligible, lie explained. “Professor Rutherford succeeded In arranging a collision hetween Hie cen- irnl portions of tv o atoms. The result was the transmutation of the atoms Into entirely different forms of matter “The nosslbllltv of such tnuismntn- ffon on any scale Is of enormous* im portance. if the amount of h.wiMgen which goes to constitute a ,t:ilii.yipoon- ful of water wore transmuNxl' Intxk helium, the energy liberated wonttl b» 2*0(1,00(1 kilowatt honra—one-seventh of the totnl amount of electricity used: In London in a day for fighting h»k» pow er purposes. “The possibility lias been .cHscrtseed, that this energy, when fir*t> liberate*, would Im out of hunmti! coHtnol*. IP that case. If alt the hydrogen,oi» earth wer# detonated Into .space, the .success ful experiment would be pufbtsbed throughout the eiUlrw unlyeraw sm th# birth of ■ new atari. The- probability of Ibis cnla*troph«..IXspgas4it:w»y m. llglble.” Six P#nni#*,in, Glow*. Martin* Ferry, O,— 8t» pennle# worn nearly smooth, presumably due t« action of the .-fowl'*, digestive ap paratus, were found In, the gixxard of a chicken which. Hn. Harry Koehnlelu, wife-of n locat banker, was cleaning. Koehnieln declared that do money w*« ever found, In eggo laid by the hen. Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days OrupUiu refund money •* °AZO OINTMENT (Ml* o euro Itchln*. BI'M, meed in* or Prarudlna Pile*. Iffeandy relieve* Itching Pile*, aud yon '• .. a--* - nr.ti,*V No ft i-eu tn a Oerttky Child All children.treubledi with worm* have anno, healthy color, which indicate* poor blood, and as s rule, there is n>»rron Utss stomach disturbance c,ROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC given regularly or two or three week* will enrich the blood. Im- irove the digestion, find #ttau a General Strength ening Tonic to the w'tolo system. Nature will ,hen hrowol. or dispe the worms nnd th? Child will he •'I nerfect health, f iMsant to u»ke 00c pet bottle WINTER EXCURSION FARES TO FLORIDA and CUBA VIA* i Southern Railway System Excursion Tickets now on Sulo good for return passage untih JUNE" 15, 1923. STOP-OVERS ALLOWED. EXCELLENT TRAIN SERVICE OFFERED BY THfi; Southern Railway System Further information obtainable from any ticket age jY. the undersigned C. B. RHODES, : DIVISION PASSENGER AGENT" 131 TERMINAL STATION, MACON, GA. READ THESE QUESTIONS— ANSWER THEM HONESTLY— AND DECIDE FOR YOURSELF WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE DOING EVERYTHING YOU CAN FOR THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH YOU UVE. Are you a truly loyai citrv *n of your home town? Are you doing all that c?n rea sonably be expected of yoj to make this a better place in ivttich to live. Are you doing your full duty to your business associates and fel low citizens generally? Ask those Questions of the ave rage citizen you meet and yiu will Loyal Home Town? in all probability receive a most emphatic a/frmative answer. But pursue the subject further. Ask any of the number of people who have aepuired the habit of trading out of town and the chances are that in many cases the answer will be less positive. To these people add the following Questions: Are you patronizing home mer chants and home industries ? Are you spending your money in the community in which you make it or live? Are you by patronage helping to make the home stores all that the proprietors, as wel as the community at large, would like them to be? Are you not helping to boost and boom some other city by spending there the money you make either as a wage-earner or property-ownr Baldwin county? Just ponder a moment on Ques tions and you cannot help but re alize that every dollar you spend fiom the volume of business of elsewhere is just that much taken Milledgeville merchants, and re tards to just that extent develop ment and expansion of local en terprises. AND EVERY TIME YOU RETARD THE ADVANCEMENT OF AN ENTERPRISE IN YOUR HOME CITY. YOU ALSO RETARD YOUR OWN SUCCESS AND PROS PERITY AS A RESIDENT OF THAT CTTY. Your the next time yon decide 'on carrying your money to a neigh boring city to spend, or on send ing it to a far-away mail-order house, think of MiliedgeriDe nnd Baldwin Countoy, your own home town and county and remember the dnty yon owe to this city and county. Consider thoughtfully your dnty to the commnity in which yon live, and then leave that money right here at home where it was earned and rightful ly belongs. Ever think about it before in just that way? It’s a fact, isn't it? ■ jttrfe: MILLEDGEVILLE MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION