Newspaper Page Text
“Subscribe for Liberiy Londs'
BRAVERY OF IRISH-AMERICANS TOLD BY RETURNING COMRADES
By JOHN McHUGH STUART, ‘
Stafyf Correspondent of the I. N. S.
PARILS, Sept. 13 (by mail.)—"Will the
IMsh fight?"’
The same old answer may be made.
They will. It can be made on the rec
ords of two famous Irish- American regi
ments in France. It is a record that
makes men of Infsh blood hold their
heads high. It is a record that betters
the brightest page of America's most
glorious military annals.
These two regiments, one used to
be the old Ninth Massachusetts and
the other the Fighting Sixty-ninth of
New York, were in every bad scrap the
American Army has been im The tales
of their prowess are just now filtering
back to Paris. They may be told be
ause -the censor at headquarters has
now ruled that regiments may be named
for their part in such fighting as pre
ceded that on the River Vesle,
The Ninth and the Sixty-ninth were
n almost all of it. The story does not
come from official reports. It comes
from the lips of two men, one a doctor
in the Ninth and the other a chaplain
in the Sixty-ninth, who saw what they
rejate. These two have seen many sol
diers die. They know what bravery and
courage and cheerfulness are.
Lieutenant Simon Kelleher, of the
Ninth, was in Paris today. He tells the
story of his boys. And most of the time
he is either laughing, or tears invol
untarily creep out the corners of his
eyes and drop unashamed down. . his
browned cheeks.
Lieutenant Kelleher's stories show
that the Irish boys of his regiment, the
boys of Boston, Roxbury, Cambridge
and Charlestown, fought with the cool
courage that held the fire on Bunker
Hill until those Americans of an earlier
day ‘“saw the whites of their eyes.”
They show that these boys—and most
of them were mere boys—died face to
the front, a grim smile on their lips,
fighting, doing their soldiers’ duty to
the last breath of ebbing life. I ach
heartbeat of the all-too-few left throb
hed but to one purpose—to fight. No
man of the Ninth died, says Lieutenant
Kelleher, without taking toll and more
of enemy Jives with him.
Just now the name of these heroes
may not be mentioned. But “Kelly and
Burke and Sea,” are there, all of them,
and many more. Lieutenant Kelleher
says nothing of his own gallantry. But
his stories show that he, too, served.
He was not called on for the supreme
sacrifice. But he offered his life a
thousand times on first aid dressing ex
peditions to the farthest outposts and
beyond.
Wotunded By Fighting.
“I'd been told there was a wounded
man in an advanced traverse,” he says.
1 crawled slowly up so get him. I
heard his labored breathing in the lulls
of the gunfire. And then I rounded the
*orner of the trench. There he sat,
propped against the wall. His breath
came in tearing gasps and with each
one the blood gushed from his chest;
forn he had been shot through the lungs.
He was a boy I had known all my life.
* ‘They got you bad, Pack,’ I said, as
1 tried to help him.
‘* ‘They sure did, Sime,” he replied,
but looka there.’
“I followed the wave of the empty
pistol he still held in his hand, and
there stretched across the opposite par
apet were six dead Germans, one for
every shot in his gun. They had got
him only when the gun had emptied. 1
stopped the hleeding as best I could
and we got him back to an ambulance,
But he died four hours later. 1 guess
his life was well paid for.
“It was this game sharp raid of the
GGermans that produced one of the &ool
est bits of desperate courage I ever
saw. One of our boys had been cap
tured by three Germans and he was be
ing led off as they retreated, one on
either side of him and one behind., Sud
denly one of our shells lit within a few
vards of the party. The three Germans
ducked. 1 thought at first our boy
had. But no, he had reached into his
hip pocket. He dropped a hand gre
nade directly at his own feet and those
of his captors—and the three Germans
were killed.
‘‘l got there quickly afterward to
where he lay. He smiled up at me. Yes,
he smiled, though his arm and half his
side had been blown off.
“ God! boy,' I said, horrified, ‘why
did yvou do that?”
“‘Saw me get 'em did you, Doc?
he answered.
*“‘Yes, but'—l didn't know what to
say as I tried to dress that frightful
wound.
" *Well, doctor,” he said, gravely. ‘l'd
been to communion this morning and I
guess 1 was ready to die. But I wasn't
ready to go to Germany. They searched
me for grenades when they got me, the
three of them, and they took those out
of my bag and out of my side pocket,
But 1 always carry one tucked into my
pants when I go out here, just in case
of-—well, anything like this.” And when
those three Germans ducked it came
through my mind a lot quicker than I
can tell it that three dead Germans
and one dead American was a lot more
on our side of the score than three live
Germ:rns and an American as good as
dead in Berlin, So I let her go.”
“He tried to raise his head and look
around.
‘* Never mind, boy, you t them all.’
I assured him, A '@ -
' ‘Any-—any chance for me, doc?’ he
said.
Wanted Mother to Know.
“I didn't answer and he knew, His
remaining hand crept beneath his
blood -soaked tunic, gripped something
tight and stayed there. After a mo
ment he spoke again.
“‘Doec,’ he said, ‘you know all the
boys around our square. [ wish they
could know I was game.
“‘And, doe,’ his voice was weaker,
‘will you-will you tell my mother 1
had--I had :his when--I went.'
“Slowly his hand came out; slowly
it opened: that hoy's hand strangely
old and worn with the bloodstains snd
grime Slowly .t opened and there in
the blackened palm glistened a tiny,
bright silver crucitix. He was dead
It’s Chaplain Hanley who Itells the
story of the Sixty-ninth. They refer to
the chaplain as holdinx tha »eprical roe
ord for mileage in No Man's Land. They
cap’'t keep him off patrols, Chapla‘n
Hanley knows the story of most of the
casualties of the Sixty-ninth He sub
stantiates the statement that not a
man has been kilied or wounded by a
German bayonet, notwithstanding the
regiment has encountered 1. pitched and
open battle three of the five livisions
of the Prussian Guard at one time and
another of its career. Needless to say,
the Prussian Guard division can make
no such boast Father Hanley says the
hardest time they have with casualties
in the Sixty-ninth is to make them stop
fighting when they're hit, He is him
self ‘ust recovering from a wolnded
leg
“The officers are as bad ag the men,”
he declares, ‘“The day 1 got this wound
I was workineg up with Captain Hurlev's
ompany Theyv'd heen driven vack a
little by a vicious German barrage and
they were on a little ridge. They'd got
orders to hold it, and they did, for four
days Whea they left it they went
ahead
“Well, 1 was up there this day and
I heard of a wounded man ahead and
v little to one gide, just over the edgen
of th hill toward the German linea,
[ told the captain I'd better go to him
and he wanted to detail a couple of men
to help e I declinad and started off
hy myself, crawling on my stomaeh un- |
derneath a stream of machine-gun bui
ety that would have clipped me had ”
pised on my eibow
I'd gone perhaps 50 vards when i
anrd a rustie 1 the grac« behind me,
ad e ‘e were two of Hurley's boys. |
e d the ptain had sent them (o
yi'l m back If anything happened,
\nw ligten to the vest of it. | sent them
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
R N NNNNN N NSNS NN NI
')
{
!
IVlaK€ anta |
¢ %
$ NO. 38. §
‘ WALTER G. COOPER
; :
AP PPPPPA s
e e |
By .
&
‘ B P ~
gRA W §
t S % ® 3
BRS Sy Pt %
% %}: i A 3
TR e 4 %
o TR N
ok ' b
B e E
G e E
._ “ :
T : !
R
R
Mo 0 i
i
3
- o \ 1 YR
WALTER G. COOPER.
Walter G. Cooper is the exact anti
thesis of the usuali Chamber of Com
merce secretary.
Most of them consist of Ome loud
voice, two loud suits, one elastic ex
pense account, and as many mileage
books as can be coaxed out of the treas
urer They are always going some
where, usually in wide and exer-ex
panding circles After a while they go
somewhere and do not come back
Walter G. stays put. He is a booster,
but he does his boosting with work
instead of a megaphine He lets the
volunteers, of which Atlanta has plen
ty, do the glad-handing and the song
leading In fact Walter G. doesn't do
much of anything—except work
A great deal of the really hard work
in the world is done by secretaries, any
way Look at the ringing statements
of the presidents; the excellent open let
ters to the public; the simply wonderful
compliations of detailed information
sent out over the signatures of the com
mittees Who writes them? The sec
retaries Especially Walter G. Cooper
Who gets up the meetings, ararnges
the luncheons and dinners, frames up
he entertainments for visiting notables,
see that there are automobiles for
worth-while strangers in our midst,
takes pains that the right type of home
folks meet the visitors? Who knows al
most all the information there is and
where to find out in fice minutes any
thing he doesn't already know? Walter
G. Cooper Whose name very rarely
gets int € papers onsidering the
amount of news he provides? Walter G
4'4-n,r""
M Cooper spends nine-thenths of his
day i his office at the Chamber of
Commerce around which radiates or
swirls almost everything worth while in
the way of public movements The re¢
maining tenth is Hevoted to waiting for
A street car to } home in West End
and in preparing a paper to be read at
the next meeting of the Ten Club, of
which he is a tenth And that paper, of
the severa indred he has signed that
weel alone carries the signature
“By Walter G. Cooper."”
SUBSCRIBE FOR LIBERTY BOWDS
32 uans, inciuding
Offi Taken
10 icers, laken
r
By U. S. Corporal
By HENRY G. WALES, ‘
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. §. |
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON |
THE CHAMPAGNE FRONT, Oct. 6 |
Night).--Thirty-two German prison- |
ers, including ten artillery officers, |
were captured single-handed by Cor r
poral Fred Hunnell, of Toledo, Ohio, ‘
it Mont Blane, on the Champagne |
front |
Corporal Hunnell, who is 30 years
old, has been in the army less than a |
year, being a salesman up to last
January During the attack at Mont
Blanc Hunnell got lost ffom his de ‘
tachment and while wandering around |
- discovered a dugout He called to the |
inmates to come out A German pri
vate, who spoke KEnglish, responded |
Hunnell told him to call out the oth- |
ers, but none came i
The American, fearing a trap, start
ed to seek other Americans when he
came upon another exit from the dug- |
out A Prussian officer with a pistol
in_his hand was just emerging ‘
With his rifle at his shoulder, Hur t
nell ordered the Prussian to drop the
pistol. Then he made the entire staff |
of officer troop forth, dropping their t
arms as they emerged They proved ‘
to be an artillery taff consisting of a |
major, three captains and six lieuten- |
int [he ther 22 were privates
Hunnell marched the bunch rearward 1
to the American lines
hasing back to their ompany and |
rawle ahead Just a 1 got to is |
ridge the bullet got me M wounded |
MAn Was acre an ope pace and 1
knew I couldn’t get to him. | was afraid |
f 1 waited till da I'd bleed to deat
I put a tournquet on n og and started
back r
Kept Injury Secret |
NOW 4 f th . ISt preliminar ‘
They gi ne ba to a hospit v da
Iter nd d I Iy B « ‘ y
Ahen who should they put dow 1
) ext to me but Captain Hurley |
himself, He was badly smashed up in
¢ OF t 'he g had bee are * ‘
i the Ire ; sta and when v‘
got h settled they started to take off
} ythe A hey p ed at |} t re
he let out a wl ;
The shirt wa tuck to h hest with |
bloo He vound there that 10
locte at t dre ng station had never
; Wh \pta id e doctor %
ing puzzle the lalty tag t don't
Ly anyt bout the he W he
o v get e” :
What d i } i | the ip
ta
Wedne lav 1 A »
‘“ ‘Now s ¥ s he iptair
na i 1 Wers 1 or esterda
1 ¢ b this on Mond
it 't t ! { had } ¢
v A chest 1 the t f "
Y ¢ alw 1 ing ¢
Y LVe 1 ers z 1 1 vou
eVve id e a 1 |
H et hap ' ‘
tbou 1 Y nosy .
, re awfu
RECRIBE FOR (IRFATY @
Continued From Page 1.
ers are badly divided at the present
time,
May Await Delivery.
Whether the President will wait un
til there has been sufficient time for
Powers’' capitals before authorizing
its publication here was a subject on
which information was withheld. Be
cause of this, various reports that
the note already had been handed to
the Dutch and Swedish envoys here
the message to reach the Central
were current. For obvious reasons it
was impossible to confirm them.
The one outstanding feature of the
entire exchange has been the una
nimity with which the entire United
States accepted, from the moment it
was known that a new peace offer
was coming, the view that it would
be rejected. One year ago, even six
months ago, there was always in evi
dence a healthy minority throughout
the country who, when peace was
suggested, came to the front with
openly expressed hopes that a way
out had been found. Today all this
is changed. For 72 hours telegrams
and letters have been pouring in on
the leaders of official life and tc the
White House and State Department.
All are couched in the same general
language. They demand that the war
continue until Germany's military
power is crushed, and the great ma
jority demand that the fighting con
#inue until Germany shall surrender
unconditionally.
Many of the messages received urge
the President to demand a change in
the governments of Germany and
Austria-Hungary. Others, many of
which reached the Senate and House
leaders, favored complete indemnifi
cations for all peoples who have suf
fered from Germany’s ruthless policy
of destruction. Not a single message
received in official quarters carried
the slightest sentiment in favor of
accepting the Teutonic suggestions.
The reply, when completed, will go
to Turkey as well as to Germany and
Austria-Hungary, inasmuch as the
Sultan’'s Government is reported to
have joined in the peace overtures.
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Oct. B.—The treachery of
Bulgaria, combined with the situation
on the western front, made it neces
sary for the Central Powers to move
for peace, according to an article in
The Amsterdam Tiza.
“As far as possible,” the article
adds, “autonomy will be granted to
the various nationalities of Austria-
Hungary and a new Poland will be
created out of part of Galicia.”
[sURSCRiBE 7OR LingTy wowse)
COLUMBUS, Oect. B.—Four hundred
regular army troops from Fort Sill, Okla
homa, have arrived here as the first
contingent of troops to the new infantry
school of arms being built here. They
were served breakfast by members of
the Red Cross Canteen Corps, following
which they marched to the temporary
camp which was to receive them, and
pitched tents. They stated this was the
first time since they had been in the
service that they had been shown any
attention by canteen corps and like or
ganizations, although they had seen
members of the National Army royally
treated.
Captain Albert Kindervarter, Lieuten
ant William J. Stewart, Lieutenant
Dickerson and Y. M. C. A, Secretary E.
A. Darden were among the officers ac
companying the men. KEach of the men
is an expert in some line and practically
all of them comrnissioned or noncommis
sioned officers,
They were much pleased with the city,
stating that the water supply, etc., here
was the best they had found in any of
numerous cantonments where they had
been stationed. ‘
Colonel H. 1. Eames, commandant of
Fort Sill; Lieutenant J. #aul Jones, of
the quartermaster construction depart
ment, and a number of other officers
have been in Columbus for the last two
weeks preparing for the removal of the
troops. The temporary camp, built to
accommodate a thousand men, was built
under the supervision of Major Jones in
six days. Other troops will follow
shortly.
The general contract has not been
awarded yet, as specifications have not
been completed. It has been officially
announced from Washington that the
school will be built to accommodate 25, -
000 men, and that it will be permanent.
It will involve an expenditure of approx
imately $14.000,000. '
[SUBSCRIBE FOR LIRERTT BOWDS) }
t
Clerk Is Sentenced
|
For Robbing Mail
or nobbimmg Mall
louis C. Clark, an Atlanta mail clerk,
in the United States District Court, be- ‘
fore Judge W. T. Newman Monday, was
sentenced to a year and a day in the
Federal penitentiary for taking money
from the mail. He pleaded guilty to
the charge
A heavy docket was sounded at open- |
ing of the court, numerous cases charg- |
ing violation of the Federal liquor laws |
and the vice code being called Among |
the cases were these |
J. Lee Hurst, of Campbell County, |
tearing down rural mail boxes whil
intoxicated, fined sl. W. M. Gilraatn '
U'nion County nleaded to a charge of |
distilling, fined S3OO and sentenced to
three months in the Fulton County jail, |
Will Clements, Union County, pleaded |
guilty to one of seven counts charg- |
ing working a still entenced to a
month in the Cobb County jail; John
Payne, PPickens County, pleaded guilty
to distilling; John Fergerson, Towns
County found not guilty of distilling 4
Jac M irphy, Fannin County, pleaded |
gullty to a charge of transporting and
dealing in liquor,
SUDACRIBE FOR LIRFRYY RONDY) ’
.
Old Khaki Clothes |
A ruling has heen issued by the
quartermaster’'s corps that where sol- |
diers purchasing new clothing or equip
ment leave the old articles at the store
where the purchase is made, the stors
must retain the articles and notify the |
proper auth rities so they may be col
lected and put in c~ondition for using
agalr ’
[SUBSCRINE FON LIBERTY BONDE {
oo - Ll o i
- ARMY ORDERS |
| |
WASHINGTON, Oct. B.—~Major Herbe |
0. Black niedical corps, ".'3\]l; ';nrr'r-rrv!,
ordered t Camp Sherman; Captain Emil
Altiiar n vl corps, Camp Gordon. te
Fort Oglothorne
Captain George W Wilthite, medical
orps Fort Rar Houston, ordered to
o Ha )
Firat Lieutenant Maitie nd Solomor
rtitier ew York, ordered to Tort |
MePhorson
A ) 1 nt o Fhotr « oh Hil! as
e nant mtern tar ory
iy O on
A Clean Newspaper for Southern Homes
g The Miles Family §
. .gx
| A
e 5
| & st &> Ya
t "9 { ~’"s g‘ )(o
| he o 0 Tk X
(e {‘g;ggév ““%’*\
- ) VA N N
| &N 4 g;‘ : %&) =)
| »ga/‘; ? ?J‘b—" f‘
NFAY N N
NN “l" N 4
A "’ \ &
N A
\3\ TN AOS
u “M %)
|
|
‘ mll |
)
1 )
} Miles
\
Elder John Miles. the First of His Name
‘ in the New World—Richard, Samuel
and Griffith, the Three Brothers
. From Wales Who Established a Btg
\ Branch of Their Famu'y—Soldlers an
Clergymen of the Family—Their Cour
‘ age—The Arms of the Miles Family.
By FRANCES COWLES.
The Miles family in America is to
day foremost among the great military
families of the country, and one might
naturally suppose that the ancestors of
these people would be strong and in
trepid soidiers and fighters. But so far
as the genealogist can trace their origin
they seem to have been men whose first
aim was the dévelopment of their high
est ideas of faith.
The name itself is derived from the
first name Miles, one time a favorite
among the English. This name, stili
sometimes used in the Greek from Milo.
means ‘‘a crusher.” From the same
root we get our word mill. ;
The first man of the name in America
migrated apparently for religious rea
sons, He was KElder John Miles, who
was born in 1621, and who ater age
of twenty-eight founded the fi strict
communion Baptist Church near Swan
sea, on the south shore of Wales. Four
teen years later he, with some of his
brethren of the Baptist faith, emigrated
to America, and settled in Bristol Coun
ty, Massachusetts. The settlers called
their settlement Swansea, after the
Welsh settlement they had left.
In 1674, a year after his settlement at
Swansea, Elder Miles was teaching
school in that place. He received a sal
ary of forty pounds a yvear for his serv
ices, which included “‘teaching grammar,
rhetoric, arithmetic and the tongues of
Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Also to read
English and to write.”
This is all that is known of Elder
Miles, except that he was distinguished
for his learning and piety, was an in
fluential man in his church, and died in
1683. But as the famous Indian massa
cre, which, though only a few whites
were killed, was the direct cause of King
Phillip's War took place in Swansea in
1676, it is only natural to suppose that
Elder John had his part to play in those
stirring events. Whether he fought or
not, the man who had led the little
party of settlers from their home in the
old country must have gone through
much anxiety and many hardships.
There were several other first settlers,
and all of them seem to have been
Welsh. But just what the connection
between them all was—for undoubtedly
some existed-—still remains unknown.
Perhaps some enthusiastic genealogist
pf the Miles family will some day trace
t out. .
Probably "the largest Miles family was
’lounded by the three Miies brothers—
' Richard, Samuel and Griffith. They left
Wales in 1682 and settled in New York
State. Concerning the descendants of
Samuel, little is known. Richard, it is
said, bought his land before he left
Wales, and with his wife, Sarah, joined
the Great Vatley Baptist Church, at
Great Valley, N. Y. He had the follow
ini children: Richard, James, Evan,
John, Jane, Sarah, Hannah and Abigail.
Griffith, the youngest of the three
first-settler brothers, married, in 1862,
Bridget Edwards, in the Friends' meet
ing house Later a serious controversy
broke oue among the Quakers and we
find that Griffith and his wife Bridget
were dropped from the Friends' meet
ing and joined the Baptist Church, in
which he evidently became a leader, for
his name frequently appears in Baptist
annals of the time.
Griffith and Bridget Miles had six
children, Hester, Martha, Margaret,
Griffith, Samuel and JnhnLthe first born
in 1693 and the Jast in 1709,
Ameng the articles mentioned by
Griffith at the time of his death are
“six turkey-work ould chairs,” valued
at one pound, ten shillings,” “ten oth
er chairs,” valued at one pound, nine
shillings, six ditto, apparently of an in
ferior variety, since they are rated at
only nine shillings, “earthenware and
glasses upon two mantlepieces at ten
shillings, sixteen half barrels of flower
in the house, eleven pounds.”
Griffith, the fourth child and eldest
son of Griffith and Bridget Miles, was
married about 1721. His children were
three, Martha, Anne and Joseph. Joseph
was born in 1722 and married Ann Ne
smith, in 1750, in Philadelphia. She
was a member of an old and honorable
Scoteh family. They had twelve chil
dren, the youngest of whom was born
just one month after the signing of the
Declaration of Independence
Joseph possessed considerable wealth
@t the time of his death. The inventory
of his posscssions shows, among other
things, “Bible apd Psalm Book, 2 can
dlesticks, three swarms of bees,” and
‘Abraham, (the negro boy)." This
Abrahum was, so the family say, the
last of his race ever owned by the Miles
family. The twelve children of Joseph
and Ann Nesmith were Tuecy, Lydia,
Griffith, Margaret, Joseph, John, Thom
as, Dorcas, Samuel, Jacob, William and
Ann
Griffith, the oldest son, was born in
1754, in Bucks County, Pa He mar
rled Jane Beans, a woman of fine char
acter, and very popular with all her
relatives and friends. She was widely
known ‘after her marriage as “Aunt
Jennie,” Griffith served in the Revolu
tionary War
Their children, born between 17062
and 1800, were Jane, John, Lydia, Su
san and Griffith, who at the age of
thirty-five came into possession of the
homestead. He died_at the age of nine
ty-four without heir in his own line. The
family through other branches, is
widely distributed throughout Pennsyl
vania and other States of the. Union
Besides Lieutenant (eneral Nelson
Appleton Miles, who entered the army
a 8 a volunteer in 1861 and commanded
the urmy during the Spanish War in
1898, there have bheen other distin
guished soldiers of the family Briga
dier General Evan Miles, of the Penn
sylvania family, also served with dis
tinetion in both the Civil and Spanish
Wars Another Civil War soldier was
Colonel Dixon 8. Miles, who was mor
tally wounded at Harper's Ferry, San
uel Miles, born in Pennsylvania, in 1740,
served loyally in the Revolutionary War
ind had the distinction of being one
of the first to espouse the cause of in
dependernce
Among the .distinguished Miles men
who have not been warriors are Richard
Pius Miies born in Maryland in 1791 who
was a hbishop of the Roman Catholic
Church and established the convent of
Dominican nuns in Springfield, Ky
Henry Adolphus Miles, of Massachu
setts, a Unitarian clergyman; James
Browning Miles, a clergyman in the
Congregational Chureh, and James War
ley Miles, an Episcopal clergyman of
South Carolina
If, as is sometimes sald, t takes
something of the “same sort of cour
age and grit to make a good clergyman
Roman Catholic Baptist, and many
others—can attest to the fact that this
sort of coutage mingles with the Miles
biood
The urms of the family are deseribed
Gules two hendg or. The creat is a demi
son supnorting «n anchor all proper,
(o ' iy e MoCine . ’ s .
MACON, Oct. 8 As the result of in
surres nie recelved at Central Park, New
York City, while horseback riding Sun
day afternoon, Major James H. Blount,
formerly of Macon, died yesterday
Major RBlount's horse was struck by an
automobile and fell The major was
caught under the animail
Major Blount was born and reared in
Macon am®graduated from Mercer Uni
versity He took part in thé Spanish
American war attaining the rank of first
lieutenant Afterward he served as a
Jurist 1n the Philipine Islands
For years Major Blount practiced law
n Ma:o and left six SAT igo for
Washingtor where he continued s
practice He received a commission 1n
the judge advocate's department when
the United States entered the world
war His mother is Mr James H
Blount, widow of Congressman Blount,
and one of the best known women of
Macon. Others surviving are Mrs, Wal
ter D. l.amar, one of the most promi
nent society women of Macon, and Miss
Fannie Blount, sisters
[SUBSCRINE FOR LIBERTY BOWDS
o 1]
500 Ordnance Bureau
Workers 111 With ‘Flu’
(By International News Service)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -—Five hun
dred civilian employees of the ordnance
bureau were reported ill with Spanish
influenza today
['he ¢ Atlanta National Bank
We would all welcome PEACE—the RETURN of our 1,840,000 soldier boys
from France—and would like to see our country settled back to NORMAL CONDI
TIONS.
But every red-blooded, sensible American citizen knows that these things
cannot be brought about UNTIL THE WAR IS WON—and it is NOT yet won.
We entered the great world’s war seventeen months ago for reasons well
known and saisfactory to all. We would be UNFAITHFUL to our forefathers, to our
country and to ourselves if we did not throw into the battle EVERY RESOURCE of MEN
and MONEY NECESSARY TO WIN.
OUR ALLIES HAVE SUFFERED the brunt of the battle, which we now
realize was our fight, three years before we joined them. Their losses and sacrifices
have been TERRIFIC, but their COUARGE HAS NEVER FALTERED. Although we
have been in the war a year and a half, our total casualties have NOT been as many as
THE ENGLISH HAVE SUFFERED IN THE LAST FOUR WEEKS. ;
Our great President has made our intentions known to all the world and his
policies are APPROVED by every CIVILIZED Nation except Germany and Austria—
and THEIR civilization may well BE DOUBTED.
But these two Nations still have many millions of men well equipped in
arms, faithfully following the HELLISH DICTATES of the Hohenzollerns and the Haps
burgs, who have joined forces to DOMINATE THE WORLD.
No peace can come until these armies are ANNIHILATED and their auto
s cratic rulers TORN from their thrones.
The news from the battle front is encouraging and tells us that their defeat
has begun, but it has NOT YET been ACCOMPLISHED.
There will yet be many GREAT BATTLES and many months of TER
RIFIC FIGHTING before the day of VICTORY comes. )
While our brave soldiers are baring their breasts to the bullets of the Hun
by day and being bombed by unseen demons of the air by night, we who sit in Comfort
at home are asked only to keep them supplied with food, clothing and ammunition.
WHILE THEY ARE RISKING THEIR LIVES AND SHEDDING
THEIR BLOOD, AND RECEIVING ONLY SI.OO PER DAY, WAGES IN THIS
COUNTRY ARE THE HIGHEST IN ITS HISTORY. BUSINESS IS GOOD IN
THE CITIES AND COTTON SELLING FOR 35c A POUND IN THE COUNTRY.
The President asks the people who are not wearing the Khaki or the Navy
Blue to LEND the National Treasury $6,000,000,000 at 4 1-4 PER CENT INTEREST
to “Carry On” the war and help bring it to a VICTORIOUS conclusion.
This money will nearly all be SPENT HERE AT HOME—it will go right
back to the wage earner, the manufacturer and the farmer in payment for war supplies.
The cause of which we are fighting is the DEFENSE of our NATIONAL
HONOR and the preservation of the DEMOCRACY of this REPUBLIC.
EVERY man and EVERY woman must do their FULL part.
The money MUST be raised.
We MUST go “OVER THE TOP” as WILLINGLY and as COURAGEOUSLY
as OUR BOYS are going through the HINDENBURG LINE.
A GOVERNMENT bond is a FIRST MORTGAGE on the United States and there is
NO BETTER SECURITY IN THE WORL D.
Atlanta’s quota is $14,000,000.
It is a BIG sum, but THIS IS A BIG w ar-
The future is SURE to bring us ALL—PEACE and HAPPINESS.
We appreciate the subscriptions which have been made to other Liberty Loans
through this bank and will be glad to have you subscribe to the FOURTH LIBERTY
LOAN through our Liberty Bond Department,
~
Nati
- _Atlanta National Bank
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1918
Get a New ‘Lift for Soldier’
Get a New ‘Lift for Soldier
So .
Sign for Your Automobile
ON'T you want a new ride-the-soldier sign for your au-
D tomobile?
[t’s a hard life in the ranks, boys. And the thing to
remember is, the men in uniform are going through it for you.
Don’t forget to be hospitable, generous and thoughtful of them.
Give them a lift in your automobile when you see them trudg
ing the streets. You couldn’t do less. And maybe you couldn't
do anything better toward making them think vou're a pretty
good fellow, and you and others like you might be worth fight
ing for.
Give them a lift!
And to let them know vour heart is in the right place, stick
on the windshield of your car one of the transparent signs that
you may get free of cost at the office of The Georgian and The
y Sunday American, No. 20 East Alabama street.
‘ Thousands of these signs were given away two months ago,
and now have become weatherbeaten and seratched. Anybody
may have a new one, if he calls at The Georgian office. And
anybody who hasn’t one already may be supplied at the same
place. Just ask for Mr. Stanton, on the first floor, and remem
ber what the sign says: .
‘““A LIFT for the SOLDIER as far as I go."’
] [t’s a neat, attractive sign, and your car will look the bet
ter for it. Also you will feel better because of it.
“Subscribe for Liberty Bonds”
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 \ new, re-
Juvenated Russia, which will take its
place in the council of nations, now is
being organized. Official advices to the
Russian Kmbassy vesterday emphas
sized that the Russian provisional govs
ernment, organized by the national con
vention held at Ufa from September 8
to 23, adopted a policy of anti-Bolshe
vism and took steps to combine in the
new government all of the temporary
governments that have been fighting the
I'rotzky-lenine alliance
Represented at the conference as sube
scribing to its doctrine were the Socials
ist revolutionists, Social Democrats, So
cialist Labor party ,Constitutiona! Dem
ocrats, the Social Democratic organiza
tion and the Associat,on for the Bebirth
of Russia. _The ney provisional gove
ernment as how constituted is adminis«
tered by Nicholas . Avksentieff, Nich
olas 1. Astroaff, lieutenant General
Vassilli G. Boldyreff, Peter V. Volgo~
dasky and Nicholas V. Tchaikovsky.
SUBSCRIBE FOR LIBERTY RONDS|
WHEN WERE YOU BORN?
You will be interested in the Hore=
scope appearing on thé classified page
of THE DAILY GEORGIAN and SUN
DAY AMERICAN. You will find this
feature of unusual interest. Read it!
3