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VOLUME XV
J H McLkrty j.
DOUGLASVILLE, DOUGLAS COUNTY, GEORGIA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1919.
NUMBER 1$
DR. JOSEPH L. SELMAN I CONGRESS AWAKE AT LAST
DIED EARLY WEDNESDAY] (By Robert B. Edaon)
Douglasville and Douglas coun-' Congrbss is all at sea and both
<ty not only received u shock Wed- housese are in the same boat. The
mesday morning when it was re- voyage is an unexpected one and
ported that Dr. j. L. Selman was the destination is uncertain. There
found dead in bed when called at: has never been any thing like it
the breakfast hour, but sustained before. And it has all happened
irreparable loss. I suddenly by the regular schedule
Only recently, he had successful- being knocked into a cocked hat;
fly undergone an oeration and had in fact, it is as if a volcano (bat
hopes of complete restoration to has been smouldering for months
health and went to bed Tuesday' under the eapitol dome, has quick-
night feeling as well as usual. j ly belched forth and sent every-
It is with a sad heart tiie editor: thing scattering. - —■
Undertakes to chronicle the ac- Wilson’s letter to the
count of his death, for he Was one House asking it to forgo its recess
Of our best friends—in fact, he! was the first quake that was felt
.was a friend to everybody. Right on top of that came the
" Dt, Selman was 64 years old, I avalanche of protests against the
and had iiycd here all his life, hav-j steadily advancing prices of food,
ring practiced -/nedicine for some-1 Another big shock was the rjiil-
Khaag like forty years. Jle stood: road question, proposed strike for
H»igh in his profession and" in gd- increase of wages, etc. Things
dition to his Skill as a physicist!,■I were happening so fast and furious
he possessed' that sympathetic in-| that members 'began to more than
terest in his patients that endeared' sit up and take notice. They Held
In the fullest sense of the term
him to them all.
he was one of the best men it has
evgr been out privilege to know.
He was a good husband, a good
father, a good physioian, a good
Christian, and a good citizen.
In his many years of practice he
had ministered to the rich and
poor alike—and it made no differ-
fast to' their" seats and began to
wonder 1 'Whats Coming ' next?”
In the Senate the Pece Treaty
held no interist. It suddenly be
came a matter that was too far
away from base. The home fires
needed quenching. Hurry calls
were made for conferences. Clerks;
and pages begain to scout around
and gather absent members. The
VICTORY BUTTONS FOR DIS
CHARGED MEN
zTlie Army Recruiting Office in
Room No 280 Transportation Bldg
Atlanta, Ga. will issue a victory
button to all discharged soldiers
and Officers of t'he-World War
who present their diseharg orders
of certificates. A silver button
will be givent to those whose dis
charge papers indicate that they
were wounded i naction, A bronz
button will given to all other hon
orably discharged men. Consiant-
ous objectors, men who simpley re
ported and.wigte discharged by the
Draft Board or men who merely
served’ in the Student Army Tra
cing Corps camps etc., are not en
titled to this button. It will be,
granted to only honorably dischftt
ged veterans. „ —. m-i*
Discharges will be left at the
Recruiting Office until an oft'ieer
visits the station to certify the
fact of issue, This obviates the
necessity of mViliug your papers
to Atlanta and the possibility of
t'heir loss in the mail
The Officer in charge of Georgia
Recruiting is doing this to assist
all ex officers and soldiers in get
ting their civilian badges promptly
cnee whether a man could pay or j telegraph and telephone wires be-
not, Dr. Selman never refused him; gan to hum as not for a long time,
.aid. | Th e old eapitol appeared like an
No man was more liberal with) ant hill must look when some one
-his means. No worthy charity was of the earth places his foot on the
.-ever passed' by him unrewarded.
His home life was ideal. A hap
pier family could not be found
anywhere. A heart-broken corn-
entrance hole. Congress is awake
at last. It is hearing the voices of
the people, but not with its ear to
the ground. Instead the voice is
-panion and six children survive so loud that It sounds as if it was
trim. The children are: Misses coining through a megaphone. Re
Nannie Love and Ruth, who are at Rcess in the House has been for-
home, Paul D.,druggist, of Doug- j gotten. Democrats and Republi-
lasville; Dr. O. S., physician, of Icans ar e hurrying to revise their
Nashville, Oa.; J. T. druggist, of programs. Keep your eyes on Cou
Atlanta; and J. M., banker, of
Atlanta.
He leaves one brother, Mr. T. H.
Selman, and many other relatives
and all Douglasville and Douglas
county; to mourn his death. T
The funeral services wer e
conducted at 3 o’clock Thursday,
at the Baptist church, by his pas
tor, Rev. Wiley Suttl.es, assisted by
the Methodist pastor, Rev. A
"Ernest.
Seldom, if ever, has there been
•such a large assemblage of sorrow
ing friends, and the many and
beautiful floral tributes'were in
dicative of his great popularity,.
The Masonic fraternity, of which
he had been a valued member for
years, had charge of the interment,
using their beautiful ritualistic
ceremony.
The, Sentinel extends sympathy
gress anow jf you want a pretty
view of flrelvorks. nnd to see som3
real good come from them for the
benefit of a burdened people.
The Momjell bill for farms for
Soldiers, wfyich follows the lines
recQiqjpeqded by secretary Lane,
has madi good headway in the
House and is sure of passage when
it Comes to a vot<> \ It carries a
sum of $300,000,000 as working
capital. One ammendment has
been made providing that no couse
ientous objectors can become
beneficiary, and that soldiers are
to be favored in administrative
positions in connection with the
developement of the various colo.
FAIR PLAY
(By J. T. Reese)
sizing |
oldiers will find
the ^plan to their liking. It will'
open the way to work and to homes
on land that can be cheaply ac-
. v _ r _ quiredj it provides for, the. devel-
to the bereaved family and would ■ opement oU.large tracts of land
that something could bg said or; now held by private owners and
done to relieve their burdens, but! provides temporary employment
can only suggest that they should! for large numbers of discharged
*et consolation from the model
We of the beloved' husband and
father.
$1000 WILL BE PAID FOR A
SINGLE WORD
World Trade Club Offers Prize
For Best Name For
‘ 1 Brit-Ams. ’ ’
GAN FRANUTSCO, August 13—
Can you create the one word
which will best denote the United
•States and all Parts of Britannia?
If so you will be paid at the rate
of $1000 a word. The world trade
club of San Pranciseo has offered
$1000 to the person who suggests
‘the word which, in the judgement
• of the Club’s 'Metric committee, is
ibest adapted ‘to world wide use.
The competition is open to all
humankind. The money will be
paid to the winner at noon on the
15 of 'May 1920, by a. committee
.appointed by President W. H.
Hammer of the World Trade Club.
“Brit-Am,” “Sam-Bull,” are
some words thus far suggested
New names are constantly coming.
The world Trade Club is offering
this award' because in carrying on
its present campaign for the adopt
ion of metric units by all English
speaking people—the United
•;States, The British Isles. Canada
Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania
United South Africa and so ort,—
it ws hampered by the lack of a
single short word which would ex
press all these
Th e metric units of weight and
measure are now used by all the
(World except “Brit-Am.” or “Am
’lirittica,’’.or UQam-RulL’'
soldiers and sailors while the land
projects are being developed.
Citizens of "Washington hav e a
vote at last. An enterprising
newspaper has opened polls (^de
termine the sentiment in the Nat
ional Capital regarding the League
of Nations. Polling places have
been established in the club houses
and the office buildings. Votes
are also accepted b mail. Out of
a grajd total of 1,345 votes cov
ering several dyys the results were
For thi League with reservations,
557; for the League without res
ervation;, 410; against the League
378.
New work for the weather bu-
The secretary -of Agriculture has
approved the activity that has
been addel to the work of this
branch o fhe department. It is
known as ftie Highway Weather
'Service. It will hav to do with
the making <f reports on the eon-
diion of road; from day to day,
as well as prdialities of sunshine
or storm long them.
Tried out with success in a few
states, the servile is to be operated
throughout the country on lines
similar to fonasting weather.
Road informationand weather pre
diction will be giien on the same
card. This means that an auto-
mobilist. can cousrft the weather
bureau card, or c,t|l up a local
branch, and! find o\t what kind
of going is ahead o' him on his
intended routes, or he can get
that information in the post of
fice of the villages in route, w(iere
the cards fr the day yrp always
in view. So far twdye states
and the District of Columbia have
applied for the main roa<% nad the
bad' season service/
The Government clerks’ a Wash
Mr. Patman Daniel died at his
home near here last Friday even
ing. He had been in bad health
some time but was not thought to
be dangerous until just before his
death.
A wife nad two children survive
him also his mother and several
brothers and sisters. His father
Mr. Dock Daniel, died in the early
part of this year.
In the death of these two men
the family lias felt an irreparable
loss, and the whole community
feels the loss of these god citizens.
Their remains rest at Cool
Springs Cemetary, • i iir^mai '
A gloom was cast over our com
munity Sunday morning at six
o'clock when the death of Mrs.
Clara Eidson, wife of R. !M. Eid-
son, was announced. She had been
in declining health for gome time,
all was done for her that could be
done by physicians and loved ones
and friends, bjit her life could not
be stayed longer,
God knew best and called hep
tired spirit to sweet rest.
She was the daughter of Mrs.
E. Thompson. Her husband and
.three sons surviveher, also her
father, mother, and several broth
ers , and sisters. She was. buried
at Ebenezer Cemetary. her home
church, in the presence of a large
poncourse of relatives and friends
Revs. Jim Aberdromibie, John
Edwards and G. P. Braswell paid
the last sad tribute. to her mem
ory. She was a de.voted member
of Ebenezer church and will be
sadly missed in this community
Our sympathy is extended to the
herieved family.
It seems that the pretracted
meetings can not get up much
steam this time-Good crops and
revivals don’t affiliate such poor
sinful man gets to feeling as big
as God when be gets a good crop
on hand or a few dollars ahead.
But let adversities come he then
be-moans and laments his condit
ion and feel less than the “devil
He is a queer animal anyway.
Mr. Raymond Huett and Miss
Odell Bartlett married “on the
wing” Sunday last. May their
troubles be little ones
People are marrying like the
flies crawling on the window pane
dry to get on the inside. Those
on the inside are crawling on the
panes trying to get out.
CONGRESSMAN UPSHAW DIS
CUSSES RACE RIOTS
(By Henry B, Flaming)
ington are always wanting some
thing it seems. All in all they
have things pretty soft, as it were,
but nevertheless they are always
crying out for more. They have
30 d'ays annual leave from their
duties each yepr, 30 days sick
leave, convenient working hours,
lots of other holidays from time
to time, and pretty good pay, most
of them, but the truth is they are
like spoiled children. All through
the summer they have' been re
leased from work at 1 o’clock.
Now they want to get away from
work on one o’clock every Satur'
day the year round. It is a good
thing that the government does not
run its affairs like a private cor
poration or business or else it
would have to go out. of business
because of to many clerks, short
hours, and general leniency all
around.
Aftera (few days’ vacation, fol
lowing several weeks of strenous
Congressional duties, Congressman
W. D. Upshaw of the Fifth Dis
trict of Georgia has returned to-
the Capital in response fco the
Presidents' call for emmergeAcy
legislation on the food question.
While t&e deck is being cleared
for aotioji by Presidential intlat
ive on that subject. Mr, Upshigw
confessed himself jiot Id. £"very
calnc state of mind over the re
peated published efforts of the
liquor interests to charge up the
Washington riots to the 'n'eWprd-
h'iliitiou !iw. "
Concerning other newspaper and
magazine publications, Represen
tative Upshaw gave out the follow
ing statement;
-Of all- the foolish and wicked
things flint. ,should bring a blush
of envy to tlie cheeks of donkeys
ami devils is the continuous mouth
ing of the liquor interests, try
ing to bring the 18th Ammend
ment into disrepute by charging
t'he recent race riots up to prohib
ition I At a time
when all of us, without political
bias, or former attitude in the
liquor question now settled,
ought to be giving a unitetd front
in the battle against food profit
eers, you continue to find, promi
nent in magazines and newspapers
some out, worn and groundless
charge agAinst this new and whole
some law, 4 Everybody knows that
if saloons bad been open in Wash
ington during the scenes of riot
conditions woud have been infin
itely worse. Indeed, everybody
knows that.they would have been
immediatly closed, as is the Custom
everywhere under abnormal con
ditions of excitement. A sensible
Anti-Prohibition mayor closed sal
•29.08 doriflgjhe Atlanta riot as the
first precaution against increased
tyiolettv-*, and ’^..-experi
ence has been duplicated by ev
ery great city in the United States
during the saloon regime. The
fact is, the riot in Washington
began just like it did in Atlanta
negro crimes against white women
For spell, crimes the best e.lim-
enfbf tli^ beg roes should no more
be hbld responsible than that the
best element of the white people
should be charged with the crimes
of the criminal class. I have pro
ven during the twenty odd years
of my public life that I believe
in treating worthy negroes with
absolute kindness, and trying to
implant in tHeir minds And hearts
the principles that will make them
better people among whom it is
our-lot to live. But the fact re
mains that Washington has been
following a course towards the ne
gro that -has helped to encourage
race trouble. As long as a negro
man often uncleanly, is allowed
to sit down in a street ear besides
a white girl, and oftimes in inso
lent manner, race feeling is going
to be engendered. We face a con
dition and not a theory.
Race riots in Washington and
Chicago prove that the trouble is
not sectional, but radical. Indeed
the location of these riots was the
only comforting thing about them
to a-Southern white mail, and ter
rible as has been the price, onr
Northern people will be more in
clined to look with patience upon
race trouble in he south, espee-
ftlly when it comes as the result
of an unbearable crime.
7 have always stood against moh
violence with tongue and pen, and
for that reason-hecause I am a
friend of the well meaning negro
as well as th e white man, I would
vote for resolution to segregate
the ivhites and blacks on the street
cars of the Nation’s Capital, and
everywhere in America.
iFighting side by side in France
for the American Flag did not
distinction are to be broken down
mean that lines of racial and social
at home. Sensible negroes do not
desire it, and foolish ones might
as well learn that it is impossible-
forever, impossible everywhere,
and espically in this Angleo Saxon
South, What God has put asunder
let no man join together.
TENNESSIAN COMMENTS ON
W. L D. ARTICLE
Dear Editor:
Will you allow me to comment
upon a recent article publshed
in your paper? I do not propose to
take any issue in the discussion
of the road proposition for Doug
las county, for it is immaterial to
me what kind of roads you have,
Huw’tvor, l_w>iild like to say that
my homo bounty, on several occas
ions, voted down bond issues for
the purpose of building roads, but
later some >df our, most, progressive
citizens secretly had h bill passed
through the legislature whereby
tlie county could issue'bonds to the
fimbunt of $10p,(HH),00 for. tlie pur-
pos of building roads. That was
two or three years ago. Since that
time, land has advanced one hun
dred per cent. Farms are being
sold. More progressive citizens are
moving to our county, and we are
begining to realize the value of
good 1 roads.
Our County is now advocating
another $150,000,00.00 for the pur
pose of building roads. Some of
the most ardent supporters at pres
ent were formally the mOBt chronic
grumblers. It s hard for a person
to appreciate something that they
do not know anything about, so I
presume the writer of that article
never had the pleasure of living
on a good road.
i note the writer advocates that
every farmer buy machinery and
work his own roads, why not every
farmer bold his own school house
and church house? We can not
look to our own individual inter
est. Good citizenship is not mere
ly good citizenship indivuadally
TRere remains the duties of the
individual in relation to the pub
lic.' Perhaps the most important
thing the ordinary citizeii;. and
above all, the leader of ordinary
citizens, has to remember is thathe
must not be a sheer indivudualigt.
We should remeber that as society
.(J&vMqps and grows more com
plex, We eertainl find that things
which once were desirable to leave]
to the individual initative cen.un
der the same conditions be perfor
med with better results by com
mon effort. —
i,.am ji strong ndividualist by
persbnel habit but it is mere com
mon sense to recognizte that a state
and community acting togethercan
do a number of things better
than if they were left to individ
ual action.
I did not intend to discuss the
road' question, I only wanted to
imform my. good friend that
Whiskey is not as plentiful in
Tennessee as he stated in his ar
ticle, and that we are not deliver
ing whiskey by the cargo
“Packards and Hudsons as it ap
pears they are doing in Georgia
Grover C. Long.
FOREMOST ENGINEERS URGE
METRIC ADVANCE •
Hamftiond, Mendenhall apd Other! ’
Commend .Simplicity ot
Metric System
Among messages received
by the World Tnide Club of San-.
Francisco in their campaign for
world wid adoption of metric units
of weight and measure, a large
numeber have come from the for*
most engineers of U. S, Amorioh
and Britannia. .«■'('
John Hkys Hammond, great min
ing engineer, wir^d World Trade
Clult from Washington, D- C.: “(
pndofse metric systemjis the,uni-,
vers til ffirggggjlr * T am" convinced
from an Extensive study of inter-
natonal commerce that the adopAP""
ion of the metric system would
greatly faciliate promotion of the
export trade of America.
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, of
the U, S. Geodetic Survey, who hast
the added distinction of being the
one to induce President Harrison
to promulgate th e Board on Geov
graphierNames, sad in a president
al address before the Engineers
Societies, of meter-liter-gram.
“These units are bound to come
into universal "sp in the near fut
ure. The prodigious advantages
attainable thru their simplicity,
economy and uniformity assure
their world wide use.”
4meriean Institute of Eletrical
Engineers has voted for the adopt
ion of meter-liter-gram for gen
eral use, by a large majority.
“Not one of the accurately stand
ardized gages at present in use in
British and American engineering
workshops will need to be changed
when the metric system Is adopted,
is the declaration by the great in
ventor, Lord Kelvin,
THREE
ACREI
AND A CO
STAMPS MILL
NOTICE
All people who are interested
in the cemetary at Hollow Springs
oajdet there-the SO'fh of ^ ”.V-jsU9i9
, J. E. Land.
|S. P. Danil died Friday and wag
buried at Cool Srrings Saturday.
Mr. H'arve Green, of Smithsville
Tenn, is visiting his brothers Rob
and Alvin Green here.
^ Mrs. Mary Cansler, of Lake City,
S. C. is visiting her mother Mrs.
R. D. Giles.
Going to pretracted' meeting nd
eating water mellons, is the order
of the day.
Everybody is seeing who can
beat trading land these days.
Miss Odell Bartlett and Raniond
Huett were married Sunday.
We wish them much joy.
Alvin Green and family were
the week end guests of R. B. Bear
den near Douglasville.
Mrs. -Mary Whitehead is spend
ing some time with her daughter
'Mrs. T. B. Hudson, who now has
a big girl at her house.
Mr. T. M. Price bought out Mr.
Joe Stitcher near McWhorter last
week.
IWe are sorry to learn of the
Death of Rube RiOhardson of Car
rollton last week.
Mr Charley Noles and family
were the guests of Tom Pate and
wife Sund'ay.
liets hear from all the correspon-
dants.
AillV
CITY TAX NOTICE
All City Taxes must be given in
closed after that date and you will
by September 1st. Books will be
be subject to a penalty.
- Z. T. bake.
>i. 'Jr, .’.lUtl >3/ Clerk. : '
Sqme ycars ago one, of Joseph
■Chamberlain’s lieutenants in the
British Parliament eunnemted the
belief that every rifiale inhabitant
in the United Kingdom, was en-
titled- to three acreV and a V
The saying excited much riducl(|
from those who have aqd consid
erable mutterings from those who
have hot. But in principle it was
a true saying; it is an old saying 1
it is the fundamental basis of all *
material prosperity. ■ • 1
Years before that the Inoas itt
ancient'Peru were saying that ev
ery citizen must have his piece of
land, and must produce his sub
sistence from it. ■ ■* '
Years before that in Europe the
tribes, ancestors of the ptesent naJb*
iOnalities, were basing their group
politics on individual and land
holdings. • • ■■■• 1
Years before that and in a time'"
so dim that history is only a vagus
chronicle, each man was required
to develop and hold a piece of
land.
Three acres and a cow ! Not lit
eral of course. One man wants
only one acre another five; one
man wants chickens not cows andi
another neither. But the principle
is undeniable from the recorded
time of man to this day: that each
man should have his figurative
“three acres and a cow” where
with to contribute soniehiug. at
least to the subsistence of himself
and his.
All men can not make bread for
the world ’s industries demand lab
or; all men can not make machines
lor the worlds children demand
bread; but each man can and
should have his plot of the earth
whereon lie alone is master, from
the bowels of the earth to the he*
vens above him, as the symbol of
citizenship, the visible badge of his
independence and the birth right
of his lohor.
It’s coming to that.—Dearborn
Independent.
GEER BUYS ANOTHER MILL
Mr. M. E. Geer, President of
(Lois Cotton Mill, has, in conjunc
tion with some New York cap
italists, bought a large cotton mill
at Laurel, Miss. Involving a con-
With his pxperTShce of many
sideration of about half a million
dollars.
Mr. Geer will be President and
his son Charles Vice President and
local manager.
With his experience of many
years in tlie mill business and judg
ing from his successful manage
ment of t.ho Lois. Mills, we
uddatry.