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DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL; DOUGLASVTT.T.t: GEORGIA.
DOUGLAS COUNTY BENTINF ■ ■ DOUGLASVII,LE GEORGIA. FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1919
Close Tab Kept on German Lines
of Communication.
MUCH LftTiTiiOE IS ALLOWED
Col. R. H. Williams, In Charge, Em
ploys 51 Officers and 273 Clerks, and
Expects U Need 200 More—Mail,
Telephone and Telegraph Service
Interfered With as Little as Possible
»-Watch Like Hawk to See That
Nothing Against Interests of Amer
ica or Allies Gets By.
business for such legitimate Teuton eon-
I versatlohs as might he required by the
j needs of the community. And he left
; it to the Germans themselves to decide
! which long distance telephone lines
they wanted to use most, ami put it up
i to the municipal authorities and the
! chamber of commerce and the Ger-
i man business community generally,
i The Germans requested, that live
J trunk lines be reopened for public use
I as being most essential to business;
and tlds request was complied with.
Later, as business increased, three
j more long distance telephone lines
i were reopened to flip public, so that
j the Germans in our area of occupation
, now enjoy under military occupation
i 50 per cent of the long distance tele
phone service wjth unoccupied Ger
many and the other occupied ureas
which they had before occupation.
Censored 100 Per Cent.
German long distance telephone con-
I versa lions are censored 100 per cent
j on all calls coining into or going out of
i our area. This involves no loss ot
J time; the operator puts all such calls
j through our military telephone cen
sorship olllce, where competent khaki
Strange Sources From Which
Pigments Used by Modern
Painters Are Derived.
PRESERVATION OF SURFACES.
Crude but Effective Processes Employ
ed by the Egyptians and Greeks of
Pliny’s Day—Noah Prudently
Waterproofed the Ark.
Mistaken Idea That Huns Were in
Any Way in Advance of the
Other Nations.
There seems 1o he a general impres
sion abroad In the world' that Ger
many had almost a monopoly on sub
marine devising, and that the rest of
tin* world stood by in amazement or
humbly followed in the master’s foot-
; steps. This, of course, is “all rot,”
.ms any British submarine oflicer will
fell you.
lie will go further and fell you that
British submarines are much better
Hum German ones, and then prove it!
j And he makes no bones at all of say-
By CYRIL BROWN.
dn N,. w York World.)
That occupation isn’t, ail play and
living In Rhine castles, hut involves
plenty of hard work, is typically Indl- ! clad linguists umpire the flow of Ten
cuted by sonic slniist.lcs of our mill- j ton tnlk, ami cut In If anything Is said
tnry censorship, which in turn is only
one of the numerous activities of G-2
section of the Third army, functioning
luiM.Mentatlously hut effectively under
|tlie direction of Col. It. II. Williams,
chief of military intelligence of the
army of occupation. This interesting
department alone employs the services
of 51 officers, 15 field clerks and 258
.clerks, while Colonel Williams expects
!that at least 2<H) men more will he
needed In order to achieve the ideal of
thoroughness.
The work of our military censorship
:Jn keeping a prudent watch, on the
iniail, telegraph and telephone when
hispd by the German population has
reached mammoth proportions only
'because of our broad-minded, liberal
policy toward the Germans. Not mo
tivated by altruism, but by common-
sense economic reasoning, the Ameri
can military policy lias from the very
start been, and continues to he, to
grant the natives the utmost limit of
liberty of communication consistent
'with our naturally supreme military
Interests.
Allowed Notable Freedom.
idea of our military
of policy has boon that
Ioniums ore hampered
of the mails, telegraph
mil, in consequence, the
economically shackled,
against our interests or those of oui
allies.
There Is also a partial censorship of
German telephone conversations con
fined within the limits of our area of
occupation. These internal telephone
talks are liable to be cut in on any
time by our military telephone ecu
sors.
The Gormans are also availing them
selves of the generous freedom ac
corded them in the use of the tele
graph. As in the case of local and
long distance calls confined to the in
terior of our area of occupation, there
is only a partial censorship of German
telegrams within the American area.
All telegrams coming or going out of \ imitate those wonder
the Ahierican area are, however, eon- ! dwell lugs,
sordd 100 per cent. No telegram is ^ The earliest record of the appllcn-
held up more than five minutes—if . tion of a preservative to n wooden
legitimate. structure dates from the ark, which
All German mail going .out of our j was, according to the Bible, “pitched
area is censored 100 per cent. Gee j within and without.” The pitch was u
man mail coming into our area is cen i triumph of preservation whatever it
sored up to 20 per cent, which is con- ; lacked as a tiling of beauty,
sidered the ideal of necessity super- i Decoration applied to buildings first
vision. Our mail censorship functions | comes to light with ancient Babylon,
al Coblenz and at Trier—Coblenz, whoso walls were covered With repre-
Whether paint was Invented in an
swer to a need for a preservative or to
movt a desire for beauty Is a question
fully as knotty ns the ancient one about ! j njL r j|, nl jj,,, kjo ,
the relative time of arrival of the ; which Germany
chicken or the egg. It was invented. ; contain no "set
though, and it serves both purposes j to British officers,
equally; so whether It is an offspring j least volunteered the information that
of mother necessity or an adopted son j 1,10 plan* tor many a German subma-
of beauty remuins forever a disputed j
question.
-o sub-surface boats
has ' surrendered
rets”' not known
md one of them at
SHORT TERM BONDS.
The government lias decided upon
short term bond; , to be redeemed ir.
from one to five years, for the Victory
Loan, instead of bonds maturing in
fifteen to twenty years.
Secretary of the Treasury Carter
Glass feels convinced that these so
! curities will command a higher market
price than those covering a longer pe
riod.
ywm
FARM LOANS.
Small annual payments. Rea-
on able interest. Five year
’cans, Repay ene-tenth an
nually for four years, balance the
fifth year. Interest payable, an
nually. When loans fall due c;.:»
be renewed for a further fiive
years. Loans made to finis.v
payment of lands held unch r
bond for title. If ji. u want
n.onej x on proud terms and at low
rate of interest see n,e.
Loans made without "delay.
.). R. HUT; MESON
Rooms 1 ai d I Hutcheson Bldg
Douglas .’iiL.Ga..
TAKE ADVANTAGE OK OUR
Sl r.iTAL OFFER Pi 1 is WEEK.
rine had been seen and examined be
fore ever there was one captured of j
_ , « . | the same type—which would seem to j
lhe first men, cowering under the ■ iM , )k , |t( , „ Gl .„ nftny „„„ no
fierce and glaring suns of the hlbllcul \ ln „ nn|)0 , v of soc ,. Pt sorvl ,. t . efficiency!
countries, constructed rude huts of ; Unghind slnrtod wltji some SO sub-
The perishable | marines, built about 1.80 during the
wood to shelter them,
nature of these structures caused rapid
decay, and It is probable that the oc
cupants, seeking some artificial means
of preservation, lilt upon the pigments
of the earth in tnelr search. It is per
haps natural to suppose that it was
the Instinct of preservation that led
men to the search, although the glories
of the sunsets and the beauties of the
• rainbow may have ^created a desire to
.u— 1 — in their own
war, and lost about 50—probably large
ly by mines before the anti-mine de
vice, whatever it is, came into
being. During this building campaign
she learned how to bufld submarines
ns she never had known before. Of
course she captured some German sub
marines and doubtless took some ideas
from her enemy, hut she developed
some ideas of her own which Germany
never dreamed of—the Ml, for in
stance, which Is a 1,700-ton submarine
carrying a 12-inch gun. No, I am not
romancing, the Ml exists. She was
built for the Dardanelles operations,
and while she was completed too late
for that purpose, she was a technical
of course, only
the belter will lx
the American occupied
greater will he the
German in it. to can
It is not in our best
est. to have »he econooi
eonomic Ilf
however, doing the bulk of the cen
sorship work.
1C very precaution is taken by Colo
nel Williams’ section to see that no
advantage is taken of our liberal pol
icy regarding tlx* German mails by at
templed smuggling in
mail cars.
Mentations of hunting scenes and of
combat. These were done in red and
the method followed was to paint the
scene op the bricks at the time of
manufacture, assuring permanen<
baking. Strictly speaking, this
fore and aft, the gun having a tra-
HSj
wise nf iici-hnps six (legi-ees nmlonly
a moderate elevation. Nor does she
!
Use a full charge, hut sends hel* 920-
pound shell a maximum of 15,000
yards. The Ml carries a couple of
ml an anti-aircraft gun. 1 wish
send some particulars and ad-
I pictures, but I haven’t the
BOB
tinny a lid Uie other oecu-
and may likewise receive
nan unoccupied Germany
.or unoccupied areas.
•al of all, Germans in the
American area may communicate by
telephone with unoccupied Germany
and the oilier unoccupied areas.
The simple common-sense general
rule of our military censorship merely
bans everything detrimental to our
interests or those of our allies. If they
FARMER COULDN’T MARRY
Couple Told by Licere
ennai
mind their
tempt to
able rule,
area may go as 1’
use of tin- mails
phone.
Our military <
job twenty-four
four, ami "Millti
dor the direction
watches like an
bus
this
tele
ss and don’t at-
simple, reason-
i the American
they like in. the
'graph and tele-
the
orship
•s of ilie t.weniy-
inielligence,” 1111-
Colonel Williams,
unemotional hawk to
non gets away with
a t he interests of
allies; hut beyond
deal spirit of justice
which animates the
paint sis a preservative
of something akin to it
Pliny writes of the n
wax and painting ship:
Man That which, lie continues, “1
This Was Not Russia.
A Hungarian girl and a Russian ap
plied for a marriage license in lhe
Frank I hi county probate court sit Co
lumbus, Ohio, and ever.yjhiug went
smooth until it came to filling in the
name of the officiating minister.
“Who will marry you?” asked’ the
marriage license clerk.
“Him.” said the groom-to-be, point-
sce that no '
anything : 1
•America and
this the squat
land tolerance
,American brand of occupation crops
joii't ill the military censorship in a
very human way—paradoxically, too,
'since censors are not generally
■credited with being'human. Our com
petent military authorities are proud
not only of the fact that the censor
ship Is effective in safeguarding our
I legitimate interests. butTliat It does so
[■with the irreducible minimum of delay
ing to nnotlie
com pan led the
“Who’s him
“Him a Ru
reply.
"This isn’t Russia
do.” said the clerk.
Russian who had ae
on pie.
asked the
ian funnel
clerk.
and ‘Him’ won’t
“You will have
got a preacher or a justice of the
ace to do/the splicing in this coun-
Got Old Wedding Fee.
Forty years ago Rev. .1. A. Sutton
of La Rue, O.. performed a marriage
and the bridegroom forgot to hand
over the customary fee. Through the
mail Rev. Sutton has received a $10
hill and a note accompanying says it
|and hardship to the Germans if they 1 ,- s from a “stricken conscience.” As
j don’t attempt to abuse our square-deal : Reverend Sutton has performed 71-1
! policy. ! marriage ejeremonies, he does not re-
Long Distance Phone. member the man who “forgot.”
Most interesting, perhaps, is the
long distance telephone proposition. | Alas and Alack.
Germans in Coblenz today can talk j "Dry” upper Michigan’s stomach
with Berlin—if the bolshevik! will let aches have been cured
them. If the operator here can’t get 1 which began
The epidemic,
veral weeks ago, was
Berlin or Munich or Dresden it won’t I Immediately followed by an influx of
• be the fault of the American army of
• occupation.
When our army first occupied Cob-
,‘lenz all long distance trunk telephone
lines out of Coblenz, sixteen of them,
wore immediately out as a self-under-
; stood military measure. Colonel Wll-
hot-water bottles—but. alas, one bot
tle leaked, and the officials won’t let j 0 f the value of paint
’em have any more.
Hen Letters Her Egg.
.Tames Albert Ping of Terre Haute
has a hen. The rooster’s name
llams then let It be known that, sub- j Is Tom. Now Plgg says when be
,Lt to n,,r censorship, a certain num- lifted tlic ben recently he found ‘‘she
her of lone distance telephone trunk, had laid an egg with a monogram
lines would he permitted to resume j Initial T’ in raised shell at one end.
1 long Hliteee I MU. 1<
Thebe
200 years before 1
1 and 090 years hi
; his bloomin’ lyre."
• Greeks recognized the value of
and made
on their ships. 1
xle of boiling j
with it. after
Other the sea,
nor the wind, nor ilio suu can destroy j
the wood thus protected.”
The Romans, being essentially a
warlike people, never brought the dee- j
orajion of buildings to the high plane j
it had reached with the Greeks. For j
all that the ruins of Pompeii show
many structures whose mural decora
tions are in fair shape today. The
colors used were glaring. A black'!
background was the usual one and the
combinations worked thereon red, yel- 1
low and blue.
In tlie early Christian ern the use of |
mosaics for churches somewhat sup- I
planted mural painting. Still, during !
the reign of Justinian the Church of j
Saint Sophia was built at Constantino
ple and its walls were adorned with j
paintings.
In modern times the uses of paint
have come to be ns numerous as its
! myriad shades and tints. Paint is
! unique in that its name ans no syno-
| nyt.i and for it there is no substitute
; material. Bread is the staff of life, but
i paint is The life of tlie staff.
No one thinks of the exterior of a
I wooden building now except In terms
of paint coated. Interiors, too, from
painted walls and stained furniture
down to the lowliest kitchen utensil,
all receive their protective covering.
Steel, so often associated with cement
re-enforcing, is painted before it goes
to give solidity to the manufactured
stone. The huge girders of the sky
scrapers are daubed an ugly hut efii 7
dent red underneath the surface coat
of black. Perhaps tlie best example
steel is found
in the venerable Brooklyn bridge, on
which a gang of painters is kept, go
ing continually. It is scarce possible
to think of a single manufactured ar
ticle which does not meet paint some
where in the course of its construc
tion. So has paint grown Into the
T«ry marrow of our lives.
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