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DOUGLAS BOUNTY SENTINEL
VOLUME XV
DOUGLASVILLE, DOUGLAS COUNTY, GEORGIA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 20. 1919.
NUMBER 30.
THE POOR MAN AND
ROAD BONDS
THE
About the middle of the nine
teenth century,the Rothchilds syn
dicate and the money lord of Eng
land cast a lustful eye upon the
rich valley of the Egyptian Nil ',
and in ordr to exploit, controll
and ad to the English possesions'
they sent their schemers and agents
to interest the unsuspecting Khed
ive of Egypt in building a railroad
The Khedive no doubt told the
schemers that Egypt was poor and
burdened will a great war debt
and could not undertake the pro
ject without help. The scemers
knew all t this before they ever
approached the Kendive. What
did te schemers suggest? They
said issue a sufficent amount of
bonds tsd build the Cape-to Cario
railroad and we will buy them and
give you your own time to pay
themo t'f. The Khendive author
ized the bond issue and the Eng
lish financeers bought them as per
agreement. The great railroad
was undertaken, the raone soon
gone and the railroad not com
pleted and the interests on the
bonds due and not paid. The hol
ders of Egyptian bonds called up
on England to protect their intcr-
es in Egypt angainst loss and in
1876 the birth place of civilization
passed into the hands of a receiv
er or English protectorate. Un
der the English protectorate the
money lords of England deman
ded a tax levey on the Egyptians
sufficient to pay offf the bonds
and interests which ha dammoun-
ted millions of dollars and to do
this everything must be heavily
taxed. So great was the burden
of tax on the Egyptians that they
revolted against the Khendive in
1882 and in order to suppress the
reprising of the people, England
sent her army and navy in to the
country and virtuly added Egypt
to her possesions as a recompense
for a few million dollars worth
of bonds.
It is said that the Palm ' trees
So often mentioned in the Bible
pnd so highly prized by the Egypt
ians as their greatest source of
•flood and rament are taxed 1 by the
British at the rate of seventy dol-
These poor people aire fighting now
against this unjust, tax and for)
lars a tree to pay off English bonds
freedom, but the British lion bolds
them as subjects of England by
superior force of arms. The poor
tenant who reds a palm orchard
has to pay his landlord,s rent and
seventy five dollars on each bear
ing tree to the English bondhold-
erSbefore he gets anything for him
self and family. The'palm crop is
to the Egyptian tenant comparat
ively the saine as the eoton crop
is to the cotton tenatnt in the
eotton belt.
The palm landlord ads the tax
to the price of the rent when he
rents his palm orchard and the (
cotton land lord adds his taxes'
to his rent when he rents his
cotton farm. The more tax you
vote on the land lord the more
rent he will have to add to '■
tenants. The more tax you put on
the manufactures the more they
will ahve to charge you for the man
nfaetured goods, and the lesR they,
will have to pay the labor in or-
ber to pay dividends. The merch
ants and hankers never feel the
burden of tax like farmers and
laborers feel them, for they get
their tax out of the farmers an
laborers when they loan them mon
ey or sell them goods. Wehn a
baifk can loan the farmprs mon
ey enough to to pay all its Fed-
ipal tax andoperating pxoences,
and puts one dollar out of every
four in its own pocket it cannot
be hurt by bonds for the man who
borrows their money pays all the
tax for them. The merchant who
is agood business man never fails
to add all expenses to the cost
price of his goods and on top ofthat,
he adds a handsme chash profit I
and on top of that he never fails!
to add from 25 to 50 per cent on
what he sells on time. There are
merchants all over Georgia who
are selling sugar at a rofit of from
40 and fifty per cent and the poor
man walks up and pays it without
question.
No wonder they want good roads
and bonds for they know that they
will not cost, them anything in the
long run.
You can sum it' all up as you
please and argue the road bond
question from every angle, but
when it is sifted down to its last
analysis the poor man will, pay
all and get the least out of it.
Of all men of any calling who,
should voe against debt it is the
poor man with a family to raise
and educate. Can a poor man!
work his children in the cotton
fields of the south to pay off bonds
to build National Highways for
his more fortunate brother to ride
overand allow his children to
grow up in ignorance? The saerrt
t)y power of a country always*
plans to keep the people in debt
They kno-w that debt is a master
and a hard one at best, and they
know that bonded nation is vir-
turely a slave nation and can be
controlled by those who hold the
whip of debt over it.
We had bettor listen to the old,
“Son Keep Out Of Debt.’’
Good roads will come as fast!
as we need them without bonding
the nation to build them at once
HARDWICK TO
HERE
SPEAK
Ex-Senat t Thoriias W. Hardwick
will speak in Douglasville next week.
Wednesday afternoon at about 3
o’clock unless some changes in plans
are made.
The public will be informed of
Give us the best roads possible; _ „ _ , h Cln OPQ
with the money we can raise by a ally I 11 cl11
reasonable tax and I think that' TT <• • * i , i five
the majority of the people will be! He iS OHe 01 (jreOrglU S b 'SL Speak”
satisfied.
Which is best for the nation
to build National Highways for) .
Come and hear him
pleasure seekers and joy riders
to glide into hell over, or build
churches and schools to educate
and save our children’s souls from
an everlasting torment? The ligh
ter the burdens of the land lord
the more he will have to furnish
DOUGLASVTLLE *HBLIC when WILL WAR BE OVER
SCHOOLS TO OPEN NEXT
.MONDAY | Bureau of Labor statistics shovf
" ~ , .. . that the price of clothing in Sea-
Next Monday wil see the first increased from December, 1914
opening in the new school building t0 j uno the 30 th of the present
and the prospects, are for an un-)y ear ^ jiq per while it went
usually large attehdence. | llp to 139 per cent in Jacksonville,
An excellent faculty has been piorida, with t'he balance of the
chosen as mentioned in. another .country soaring in between these
artielle in this paper. | Pl .je e altitudes. Housing, fuel,
jDouglasvile has now one , light, .furniture, furnishings and
•best buildings of any town of its .miscellaneous items are lowest in
size in the State, and the young the Pacific states, and have increa-
people of the town and county 1 jp these reigons 65 per cent, in
have an opportunity that their | Buffalo and 87 per cent in Nor-
fathers and mothers have never: f 0 ik
had. I A study f the Union wage scale»
A domestic science department) j n the District of Columbia, includ'
has just ben added that wil be,ing 53 trades and occupations,
of great benefit to the school. Miss | s } lf>WK an increase of 71 per cent
Genter who has just returned from] f roin May, 15. 1913, to August
taking a special cource in Colum- 9, 1919, ju 8 t how representative
BALL ROCK
PATCHWORK REMEDIES
bia University will be in charge
of this department. She has had
xnerienee in this work
and it will add much to the oppor
tunities offered by the school.
A recent bill was passed by the
legislature approairing money to
enable the sailer counties to es
tablish an acridited high school
that will be free to the 8th, 9th,
this condition is of other cities ifl
probamatical. Tt is certain that
in many industrial centers that ev
en conceding the increased cost, of
living, as shown by the Bureau
of Labor figures, the increased
wage scales mounted above the ad
ded burden in living costs, with
the result that a good many labor
ers have tasted considerable real
Pulling fodder is the order of
10th and lltli graces to all pupils]prosperity. At the same time the
in the county, huttlie funds will i increast- in the cost living 1ms hit
“Ifjhere is a remedy,” says Senj J'elj'e available till after Jan^ 1st i the so called “iniiddle class”or sal
hard that their af-
worse Shape than
wage-earners.” This
_ _ partieularv to those who
highways for pleasure seekers to I six members, surley was a good that if conditions continue as tl.eyj PUment in operation at o.nee.
ride over who are living in a'meeting and hope much last ing now are that the people will lose] The committee appointed was:
n iMx f . j .roodl mav continue from the good ion m the matter, since he believes! M rs - D. W. Peace, Mrs. W. M.
house unfit for a good cow barn.| contmUt K faith in their Government, and that Morris, Mrs. W. M. Hays, Mrs. W.
to votl for more ddbt or'less' debt I 'Mrs. Louella Moore, of Atlanta tvhen that dgy comes it will be ani A Almrcrmnhi^ Mrs. -TE. Phillips,
when less debt means more com
fortable homes for you and your
wife and children to live in and
shield you from the rigors of win
ter.
the poor American hoys before the
brunt of tlie world war while the
rich hoys fared sumptesously ev
ery day. Are you going to bond
yqur children to the heartless prof
Beers #$o raked in millions of
our war tax money while your
boys eat dirty poptato peelings
and drank swill from barrels in
order to keep soul and body to-
gethex-.^iile fighting to preserve
Morgans 'millions?
'I will never vote to bond my
children and mortgage my home
to a system that puts a Georgia
boy in the penitentiary for twenty
years for going by to kiss his moth
er and sister god bye when leav
ing for France Twill never vote
to bond my children and mort
gage my home to the Hanover Nat
ional Bank of New'York to get
money to build national highways
for pleasure seekers to ride over
while I dig it out of the ground.
I will nevr vote to bond my chil
dren and mortgage my home to til
Hanover National Bank of'New
York for money after they have
aided and assisted the cotton gam
blers in robbing the south of its
eotton crop in 1914.
Tf the money trust of New York
have given the cotton fanners
of the South a fair price for their
eotton since the Givil war we wou
ld not have to mortagage our little
county to get mon.v to work out
our roads.
Let road: bonds go to the devil
and let Hanover and Go., invpst
their surplus money in Douglas
County cotton at 40c a pound 1 and
we will look after ohr rqads with
out their assistance.
The money Icings of America and
England are now busy forging the
chains that wil hind labor for the
next hundred years; for every
bond that is issued is an obligat
ion that labor ill have to nav.
■W.I.D.
solicit stibsc-
and operate this
department till state fund can be
secured, and the free tuition feat
ure will not begin till offer 1st of
year.
is spending a few days with her evil day for the republic He would Those ladies will
J sister Mrs. Tdella James. j>»ve Congress expedite the carry- riptions to install
Mrs. Minnie Renfroe visited Mrs ing of the President’s recommenda department till st
Lolla Harper, Saturday evening, t>ona into action
Mrs iWiarner iTownsiend spent Congressman Siegel of New
last Thursday with her mother Mrs York > has c ?'n einto the fore-,
Terrell Hallman ground in specializing upon the uug Let every body go to the open-
Mrs Smith of Alabama is visit- Kestion that dealers be repuired, in ? Monday Morning and show
ing Mrs Warner Townsend to niarlc cost prices on all com-! a spirit, of co-operation in the most
C C. 'Harper and wife spent *^ies j important work in our midst
Snnilnv Evening at Eddie Burns Congressman Good of Iowa, trots 1
who has several cases of fever, hops ou t the old embargo bogie, as THE RIG ^ ^£P_*H° N0 0*
they all will be well soon. rel,ef for hl ^' P™™ of shoes. “If; ORGANIZING
G. H. Couch made a flying trip 5™ want to bring down the cost —
to Carrollton Thursday in hig of shoe*, he says, “all that is> Tle inestaon of the right to or-
Ford eo™ *■' '■ is for the President to;{?»>*“ ««»“?.»> lost sight of in
Miss Ruth Renfroe spent Sfttur- Ptit'embargo on shoes and leather
dav evening with the Misses Chat- ompbrtnly. ■ Mr. Good thinks sim-
'Ivain ' 1 ar act,on 00 mea * and other pro-
Atint Eliza Couch who has been duet . s down domestic
spending a few days with her son ™ arkat ' and he advances the plans
Frank, has returned home. ' ' i exports from the
Clifford' James and Lee Renfroe U " ,ted are ot “»e greatest
passed through our burg Sunday vo ume ‘" history,
looking happy. I
Mr. Ben Renfroe and family)
were visiting friends in Atlanta 1
one day the papt week. I
OBITUARY
Oft October the 2nd the messen-
Bud James' is all smiles now,, a ai,m , mon « d tar
fine girl has arrived at his home.' ® rotker R H - Brother Ban
Mr. John Gamer and wife who ks bo ™ D .°“f' a3
have been spending a few days . ,. ' ,t 1 67 nnd *V ld
with the latters parents Mr. Ben ’ od ™st of his
Renfroe, returned to their home , j,,. ' ’ Ipd Nov. .. 1899
at Whitesburg last week. Rie« His
Dr. T, F. Abercrombie and moth ™?' ^ 8 f companion having
er and little daughter were at C. j, . nnoframut Plf T B . r0 £ , "‘ r
r n.™ Banks professed Christ as lus Sav-
'josiali Abercrombie and wife SaVtl'n “
and Mrs. Thompson spent Tlmrs- tllP P vear (>f T355. and, iivcd a fn"
day Evening at Mr. C. C. Harper s i, f l . . !,
Th, .. Mr. Ti. r T «. gff-rtr JSgSTu'Si
Sunday night was attended by a Koine hjs gpirit Wg ^ Bpothfir
a n r0W<1 ' ■ i h Haris from our midst .but we be-
Well as news is scarce and the ^ ^ ^ . g |)is Uts
writer has got to gd busy, will try t o imitate his vitures some
ring off and come again. | „f which was truth, love kindness
Polly Anner. meekness, humbleness and tlie Gol
FAT EARNINGS MUST BE dpn B,,le
REDUCED
Brother Banks was
great lover of music, and he seemed
happiest when singing praises to
~ T , , . and of his redeemer and we feel
The profits of packers are doubt- thn , h( , , vi]| , hp nt thf ,
less aflmormal: but the packers are eBtioa of the j ugt to 8 ; nff the
i- 4- 1> — enlir nnlilll AO An f ll ft It ft Q P h n - . s “
DOUGLASVILLE PUBLIC
SCHOOL FACULTY
High School
Prof. Ed. D. Gunby. Supt.
Mrs. W. E. Ham, Principle,
Miss Elizabeth Harris Mathematics' onfJ the line to engage the food
and History.
Miss Trene Gunter English and
Dom. 'Science.
Grammar School
Miss Lyman Sims 7th grade
Miss Pearl Price. .......fith Grade
Miss Hazel McLarty. .. ,5th Grade
Miss Nell Smith 4th Grade
Primary
Miss Gladys Stewart.. .3rd Grade
Miss Bessie Frank McLarty 2nd
Grade.
"Miss Cleophas Hicks..1st Grade
Miss Nannie Love Selman Music
Department. ,
Mill School
Miss Maude Herring Principle.
the consideration Of the questions
involved' in th high cost of living.
That right of organization, when
adopted by big .business, iR likely
to result in prosecutions; since
trusts and combinations have been
'held to he inimical to the public
welfare. But labor can organise,
and so can farmers; and what is
lawful for them is against the law
and is a monopoly among the“big
fellows.” What’s fair to Peter is
robbery in the case of Paul, for
when capital seeks to organize its-
Self to (promote a big forward
movement, someone like Mr. Stone
of the Railroad Brotherhoods, of
Mr. Plumb, arises to make caustic
remarke about “Wall Street.”
which is tame in its methods in
comparison with the labor profit
eers The righ or wrong of or
ganization apparently rests upon
the theory that it makes all the
difference in the world who i is
that is frying the fish. And speak
ing about fish-has it ever oceured
to you that a lot of the fish that ar
eating up th“ little ones are fil
ling their gills in Mr. Gompers
Mill pond?
DOUGLAS COUNTY CAMP OF
CONFEDERATE VETERANS
Comandant A. R. Boinar of
Douglas County Camp Confeder
ate Veterans, requests to state that
there wil he a meeting of the
Camp at th Court House nt one
o’clock on the First Tuesday in
September(Next Tuesday.
Important m atters connected
with the approaching re-unio
LAST BLUE THURSDAY
FOR DOUGLASVILLE
, ,,, ,, , , ci.him ui tue just io sing tne sont
not the only pebbles on the beach of m(me8 and thfi lamh H( , , ea
that have been polished by war wife alld 3eV( , ral fihildrfin to
when then; is no war. . mourn his absence also four bro-
The Attorney General usnally is 6h . ers and two 9igterg Begides n
prolific with promises of the things numh;r of re | atives and friends.
jail a few of the scalawags Y-b?, but of hi« laWs Resent ^ t0 ^
Tt is insisted in Washington that ifh , g we havp ins ' cribed tMg in j ‘ ‘
there will be a. general attack al- remenbercnce of liim
Therefore be it resolved:
profiteers, and one of the devices] 1st Tiat we bow in humble sub-
is the dumping of $100,009,000 ,nis *'<b to the wil of God knowing
worth of surplus army food upon |‘ hat ‘ « does M things weH.
, , 1 . . 1 2nd That, a copy of this be furnish
the market at prices much lower, od thfl herteaved fdmRy.
than market quotations; delivered : b -d That a copy be spread upon
by parcel post.. While it is true; our church minutes,
that the total amount of food to be d th Tliat a copy be furnished the
sold by the government agencies ^ oni l t - v Sentinel and Car-
, . .. . . , roll fiountv Free Press for publi-
m small as compared to the total ,.„tjon. Done by order of church
required by the. public, yet it can- i n Conference. s
not fail to have a beneficial ef-; J. W. Baggett;,
feet upon market conditions. It is T. S. Boyd,
one of the few steps actually taken Gordon Rainwater,
toward stopping fat profits. | ^ Committee,
This week, the time expires in
which the merchants agreed to
close on Thursday afternoon. It
has worked' very nicely during the
summer months, giving the clerks
a half holiday, but it has worked
a hardship on others.
For quite awhile many country
people would come to town on
Thursday afternoon and 1 conse
quently would be disappointed.
We believe however that every
body is glad there are to be no
more blue Thursdays.
are in the trade nuions and the sol
diers who back into lifes indust
rial channels. Lumping the rich'
and th poor, the large and tho
small business man it is very con
servative to estimate that from
one-fourth to o^ie-half of the peo
ple of the country have not in
creased' their wages, sufficent to
keen naee with the increased cost
in living.
In the beginning of the processes
of war the governmeit recognized 1
“eolletive bar^iining,” and no less
a person than ex-Pregident Taft
was placed at the head of the War
Labor Board. Organized Labor
Played for every advantage in the
game, and the most powerful fac
tor in America’s civil life was Sam
uel Gompers. The railrond Broth
erhoods camped beneath his pro
tective roof, and while flocks of
“unionists” affiliated with the Am
eriean Federation of Labor.
Among the most recent acquis*
itious are the New 'Yqrk and th«
Cliieaga Actors, who went on S
strike and closed 1 one theatre af
ter another
Tn one single instance wher4
Government control has been in
force to th limit we find railroacT
employees have received wage in
creases, in advance ot the added,
high cost of living. , This has been
done at the expense of the indus
try itself, wliieh is piling up htlg4
deficits that are being cared for
out o fthe public treasury. Indus
trial institutions that have bad to
work out their own salvation have
usually iscrensed the cost to thft
Public. Tn some instances this
has resulted in profiteering-and
the government is now hunting
out instances of this kind.
But there has been no construc
tive systematic process of equal
izing the begining of the war. Afl
shown above, one-half of the peo-
nle of the country have experien
ced ail era of prosperity while
the other half has been unable to
keep up with the increased de
mands made unon them. This half
and von p in ' 1 t"e—'-vvhere, are
the ones most anxious to know
when the war will be over.
GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR TW0
FARMER BOYS
The Southeastern Fair will pot
on a school for club hoys from Oct.
11 tli to the 21st and two hoys from
each county can atend his school
with his expences bourn by the
fair association.
This is a splendid opnortmlitV
for two Douglas ountv hoys and
the appointments will he made h.y
examination and anv lmy interes
ted can learn what he has to do by
seeing or writing Mr J. E. Cheat
ham County Agent.
A large and competent faculty
will he in charge of the school
among them Prof. J. Phil Cam-
bll didirector of the State College
of Agriculture and Prof. Joh»
Giles, one of Douglas Countie’S
own sons will be principal.
Boys don’t miss this opportunity
see Mr. Cheatham at once.