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By HENRY G. WALES,
. Staff Correspondent of the I|. N. §,
« PARIS (by mail),—French and Amer
m authorities in Paris are working
to preveni doughboys from pur
whasing tobacco in any form and turning
it over to the civillan population, as
w and cigarettes are a monopoly of
E Government and subject to heavy
‘u..lfl« and taxes.
,Tebacco for the American -—w-‘nllon
forces is admitted to France free
duty and is not liable to tax. It is
by the army sales commissaries, by
X. M. C. A and by the Red Cross.
; @ supply is udv-quu‘&o entire cartons
from 200 to 500 cighrettes are Tre
ently sold to the soldiers, as well as
of ¢gars and numbers of cans
®f pipe tobacco. -
' (fimg to the lack of tobacco in Paris, |
‘wivilimns are ohliged 1o pay tremendous
3 to obtain cigarettes am‘ cigars
; on sale by the Frene Qovern
ment, a packet of twenty medium-grade
g:retu‘u often costing 5 or 6 francs,
American tobacco is sold at cost
~ however, cheaper than in the
; stores in the United States,
9 have been discovered where
soldiers purchased cartons of cigarettes
and boxes of cigars and then sokd them
20 French givillans or gave them to
French girls, who in turn sold them to
the high-class restaurants and bars in
Paris, where they were retailed at fab
wlous prices. American officers in hotels
were surprised to find well-known
brands of American elgareties sold for
ml 2 francs a box. They wondered
they came from, and investi
gation revealed the fact that they were
purchaged through intermediary and
soldiers. The French authorities were
mflnw with the situation and they
ly pointed out that the Govern
mwent tax was being evaded.
AS a resvlt, orders were lssued that
only two packages of cigareties or four
or five cigars might be sold to solllers
at_one time, unless they had written
orders from commanding officers. The
doughboys complained bitterly at these
H‘%ficlm usserting that they were
on duty in remote parts of the city or
in the suburbs and could not often get
‘permission to visit No. 40 Rue Colysee,
off the Champs Elysees, where the |
army sales commissary s located.
Patients in hospitals also protested,
A 8 they could not easily and quickly ob
tain orders from their commanding of
ticers snthorhlnf them to buy tobacco
In_larger quantities.
. The Red Croms and the Y M. C. A
promised to obviate the difficulty of
Z ng patients in hospitals by send
representatives daily to the vvlou»
tals in Parix and the suburb® and
selling a package of the cigarettes, a
mfle of cigars or some dundy to pa
tlenta there. The plan was not lived
%to. however, and after a few days
;4 salesmen falled to appear
Fruit and Cakes Sent
Prisoners From Germany
HUNTEVILLE, ALA., Dec 21 -—Bhelhy'
White, formerly & young real estate and
nsurancy agent of MHuntsville, pow a sol.
dler tn France, writes a friend here that
e I pow with u company that is guarding
M eamp of German prisoners pear contral
a”‘m. k’fh-* f};+rex.l\n vnnunvl(n, he um..a
i packages rom Lhome o frafts and
‘oakes made of bran. The prisoners get
§ Mmme rations as the doughboys, aiso
) in issued to them twice a week
¥ are gind they have been captured
# that the war is over xo they vab soon
urn home to their families
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wilmu Dec. 21.—The English-
B ln, Union | & promoting a
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Eachools in America. A proposal to
in lflhq London County council
Bchoole with those in Penmsyivania
has been referred (o the commiitee ut |
the teachers in London.
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German Brutality in Mines
Is Described by Britons
London Times Special Correspondence to
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~ LONDON, Dec. u-zA report on the
employment of British prisoners of war
in coul and salt mines in Germany has
Just been issued as a parliamentary pa
per. 1t leaves no doubt that the German
ddea of humane treatment consists in
‘unmalrunu-d brutality of the most bar
barous deseription. i
1 The report poinis otn that of all the
iworkinu camps for prisoners of war
those attached to the coal and salt
mines in Germany are the most notori
‘ouu. and the men who had the evil for
tune of having to work in the mines
\"';lx\u- concluded in some cases for
P’c rs, a singularly cruel and dangerous
form of slavery.” It appears that there
are some fifty of these mines, and the
nature of the work is roughly the same
in all of them, It consists in loading the
stuff dug from the séams on to (rucke
or wagons, which then have to be re
moved for tram?ort to the surface. Al
accounts show that the task is a heavy
one even for men in full wvigor, for
weakened and emaciated prisoners it is
often an impossibie one. Here is an
extract from a letter, dated May 10
1917, which somehow reached Hameln
from a lmi!‘hlmrlng salt mine, the writer
bo-nw an English private soldier.
“We have had nolhln‘{utu eat, ouly
swedes, since we left neln. ~
We have lost all ambition through lack
of food. Do try and get us back, if
only to clink. Two of our numbers have
gone to hospital with broken arms, and
the remainder are suffering with cut
heads and brmnub‘the result of a flog
s:‘n: th‘:" got at the last place. Satur
y last 1 fell in a faint, unable to work
any longer, and the man in charge (a
civillan) kicked and beat me back to my
senses and kept me down the mine for
sixteen hours after all my gang had
guno l.i)« 13 {nu could only see the boys
ere, they all look like dead men; they
are all worked to death. ™
Officers Al Brutal,
The report states that there (s no
'doubt that in fact, though not osgtensi
bly, work in the mines is inflicted as a
punishment, it seems that “the Hritish
are sent there in the ordinary course.''
The system is one which leaves isolated
groups of prisoners at the mercy of a
more or less brutal noncommissioned
officer over whom his military supe
riors exercise little or no control, so
that it is all but impossible for com
plaints to be brought under the notice
of the proper authority. Refusal to
work is visited with the direst punish
ment, prisoners being kicked and
knocked about until forced to mive In
A private of the Royal Warwickshire
Regiment describes how thirteen pris
others were treated in January, 191 at a
salt mine near Sarstedi for re
fusing to go down In the mine:
“The thirteen v‘rhumen refused to go
down the mine the first day.’ By order
of Blumer (a German private), given
in the presence of the vommln%:,m. the
sentries started knocking us about the
’buu,v with their fiets and the butts of
their rifles The‘{ drove us to an under.
wronund eellar and kept us there for three
days, and every morning came .oa
knocked us about. The floor of the cel
lar was damp, and there was no lhght
and no alr and we had to sieep on the
damp floor, They guve us each a small/
plece of bread and some water every
day. On the fourth day we were lined
up i the ming yvard and asked whether
‘we wonld go down. We refused. Then
the soldiers (nine in number) struck us
with their rifles, and aboutl twenty-five
clvilian workmen chased us till we were
driven to the shaft more dedd than alive;
hen we were pushed into the cage and
pent down. Rentries stood over us and
kicked us while we worked, and sala
we should not go up till the work was
done. We were taken down about 7:30
or at & a. m. and brought up to the sur
face at 8 p. m, and had no food all
that time. For a week longer some of
the Rritish refused to work., but they
got 30 knocked about and beaten that
they gave in and wept, The British
prisoners continued 'lo bhe brutally
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work on big coal ovens, spriuklln? the
coke with water as it comes red hot
from the furnace and shoveling It mto
trucks. “The men engaged on this
work,'’ says one of their number, “were
nearly roasted by the heat. They had
to do shifts of from half an hour to an
hour unless they dropped out before,
which they frequently dki. The heat
was intense, and 1 have seen men with
their feet and faces scorched and blis
tered."’
Forms of Punishment.
Reference has been made to the lack!
of control over the N. C. O, in charge or
{vfl»onem. Left to himself, the man
s one aim--to prevent escapes and to
exact the utmost amount of work. The
report eites a typical case at the West
%rhoh coal mine. Here flngfilngn have
een frequent and severe, lengihs of
rubber tubing being used for the pur
pose. Apart from the econstant and
more or less haphazard maltreatment
to which the men were exposed, there
were three recognized forms of punish
ment., There was, first, the general
inmpnlv,x of all parcels, correspondence,
smaking and amusements of any kind
for a certain number of weeks, THeve
‘wu also confinement in cells, and this
was or might be a very cruel ordeal, for
the cells were under the hot-water
pipes which fed the baths, and some
of them were aimost unhearably hot,
If the Turds had a special grudge
against the man they would put him in
the hottest cell, as a rule for a few
hours, sometimes for a couple of davs
Here is an account written by an Lng
ligh soldier describing the trealment sos
corded to prisoners working in the coal
pit at Lunen:
“The Hrutal treatment complained of
was that sick men, 2o long as they were
ableito stand, were compelled by the
sentries to continue working, Anyone
who refused was beaten with rifles and
bayonets until he le zan again, or, if this
failed, he was forced to stand at atten
tion in front of the sentry on the main
gate until the shift had returned from
work, a period of anything up to eight
or ten hours. If they (Rinted or became
too weak and still refused, they were
put in & cell behind some big ovens,
where the alr was extremely ‘lud and
the heat fearful. ;They were some
times kept in this place for two or thres
days in this terrific heat until they
agreed to work l\urlnf this time no
food from Wfln was allowed, the Ger
man food ng the omly kind, and the
only way of guenching thirst was the
allowance of two bottles of water a day
Shot in Cold Blood.
Another soldier who refused to com
plete his task was taken out of the mine
dresssed only in a shirt and drawers (it
was too hot in the mine to wear any
thing else) and was pnt, for mc nignt,
in a hut which was not weatherproof,
In the mm‘t\m“ it was half full of snow,
The next day he was taken to the mine
nrl!n and beaten unti! he had flnlah«d‘
his task. A Russian prisoner was shot
in cold blood for trying to escape tmm!
the salt mine at Khmem “A civilian
stopped him until the sentries got up lu!
him. Omne sentry hit him on the head
with the butt-end of a rifle, ummmr his
head o‘;m and breaking the butt of the
rifle. wo of them dragged him® back |
by the arm. He was half walking and |
half being dragged along the ground. |
A wentry, without any orders at all,
wialked up to him and fired point-biank
at his vhn‘. The buliet entered hig chin
and bYlew away the back of his head.”
The accommodation provided ‘n the
huts where the men lived appears to
have been abominable. At the Neuhof
salt mine the men slept in triple-deck
beds, with two men in each bed. Except
for a narrow passage about two feet
wide, there was no room to move gheut,
The beds were full of vermin, and there
were a large number of black beetles
end other insects on the walls and floor.
Owing to the crowded condition, it wams
impossihle to keep the place elean,
Everywhere i& the same story of dirt,
daiscomfort and foul drainage. It must
be added, however,” the report states,
“that the bathing arrangements in the
conl mines are generally good: a saf
folapnt wunniv of hot hower hathe (= the
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FORT OGLETHORPE CHATTA- |
NOOGA, Dec, 2t.—The return of the fa- |
motis Eleventh cavalry to its old post |
at Fort Oglethorpe is an event which'
is expected in the very near future At
present only a remnant of the organiza
tion s in camp at the fort, the body
of the regiment being scattered to wide
ly divergent points. Six troops are sta
tioned at Wort Myer and five troops are
in California
While there have heen no definite |\|.|
L ders issued to the effect that the regi- |
ment will be consolidated here .u;:mn,l
the general impression is that this will
take place, and this impression iß]
' strengthened by statements of .\l‘tlvvri
}\\ M. Blunt, in command of the three |
troops of the regiment now stationed |
lat Oglethorpe |
‘ Major Blunt has just returned from |
service on the FKFrench front, but m'-!
c¢lines to relate any-of his rx.u-v.'-nf't-shl
sayving too many people in Chattanooga |
are a quainted with him already Ma- |
fjor Blunt was with the regiment for
nearly four vears before going lnl
France
Mounted pushball, playved for the |
championship of the Oglethorpe camps |
will give many spectators the thrill)
of witnessing a new sport when l'.nnpl
I'orrest meets a picked team from the
three troops of the Eleventh "J\'l‘!v\,
next week, the exact date to be deter
mined later !
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Th game of mounted pushhall is |!
gort of cross hetween polo and Rughby |
football, and was introduced into the
local eamp largely through the energies
of Major Atkins, of the Engineer ('m’lln‘
at Camp Forrest It is plaved with five |
men on a sikde, and the object Is to|
push the ball, 6 feet in diameter, a 11\.\.\‘
the goal line—the propelling force bheing
the shoulders of the horses ridden h\l
the teams The game has all sorts of |
possibitities for thrililng action and the |
muatches which have heen played hefore |
it the camp have drawn large "“‘“'“i
of spectators from Chattanooga
Some weeks ago Camp Greenleaf and
Camp Forrest played a close match, the
medical contingent losing by a score 1‘
6 to 0 This time the engineer team
will be opposed hy some of the hest
horsemen in the army, and an n-xwmny,(
pame is anticipated
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(‘ontract has been gigned between of.
ficlals of the State of Tennessee and
Quartermaster's Department providing
for the immediate rebuilding of the
houlevard hetween Chattanooga and
| Rossvillo, Ga where it will join the
conerete highway to Fort Oglethorpe
The new construction will be of con.
L crete and will replace the present bhad
1y worn asphalt macadam boulevard
which has been entirely inadequate to
meet the transportation needs of the
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Swiss Break With ‘
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~ (By International News Service,)
WASHINGTON, Dec, 31.--Switgerland
is the latest nation to break with the|
| Bolshevik Covernment of Russia A
| dispateh to the Froneh high commission
this fternoon t=ated that the Swise
Ministe in Petrograd, the last Kuro- |
pean diplomatic representative in Rus
sla, has left for home
rule-—-a prime necessity, of fi‘:rn. n
view of the nature of the work.”
The provision for medical attention in
cages of sickness might have been con
sidered sufficient had it been properly
administered. but In many rh\wn the
doctor is clearly convicted of careless.
ness and perfunctory treatment, and
what ix much worse, is the fact that the
arbitrary power exercised by the N,
Q. in charge makes heasy for him ab«
solutely to prevent the men from re
porting sick. *The evidence is excep
tionally full on this matter,'”’ the fls(‘»rl
says, ““There is no doubt whatever that
in the average mining cam‘p A prisoner
who wishes to see the doctor can only
do 8o by favr of the N, (. O, in chargn,
and is constantly refaged permission.’
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‘The American Emblem
By FRANCES COWLES. /
The States in Our Flags were Oriolnallyl
Muilets—The Were Supposed to
Represent gpur Rowels—Found in
Washington Coat-of-Arms.
No one would think of speaking of the
“mullets and stripes’”’ when referring
to the American flag, yet, as a matter
of fact, the star-shaped emblems on the
flag are not really stars at all, as far
as heraldic interpretation goes, but mul-[
lets, and are supposed to pepresent the
rowel or head of a spur. However, au
thorities on heraldie origins explain it‘
really does not represent the spur rowel,
because this device was in use long be
fore roweled spups were used. \\'hm“
ever its origin, Iho mullet symbolizes
the spur rowel and is usually shown
pierced, which further suggests that
implement, Those who seek symbol- |
ism in the various devices of the hLer
ald’'s art see in this mullet an embiem
of constant striving-——asspur to prick the
side of one’s ambition.
It really would be absurd, however,
to regard the star of the American flag
as a mullet. Almost whever the name
of Ameriea is known the star, as the
great American emblem, is also known
and we have become so l}‘sn‘d to asso
ciating the dark blue background with
its many stars as indicative of the sky
dotted with stars that it would be ab
surd to think of it in any other way. {
Hardly anyone needs to be told that
the starlike device was suggested from
the coat-of-arms of George Washing
ton. He used a coat-of-arms describfld‘
thus: Argent two bars gules, in chief
three mullets of the second. His crest
was a raven with wings indorsed proper,
issuing out of a ducal coronet or. There
seems to be no doubt that the “‘argent
two bars gules'—that is, red and-white
stripes-—suggested the stripes in the
flag, and it has also been suggested
that the raven in the crest was tne
prototype of our spread eagle. |
This crest is found in the coat-of
arms used by only one branch of the
family in England. It was also used by
‘George Washington. In the church in
Brighton, Northamptonshire, England,
where lie the remains of some of the
ancestors of the father of his country,
the family coat-of-arms is still to be
seen on some ancient tombstones, These
are identical save that they do not show
the raven.
~ Really the heraldic star is the estoile,
}whl«-h is a device of six rays wavy--a
'method of representing the stars of the
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Baptist Tabernacle Is !
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Sued on $96,391.83 Loan
Sunit for $74,000 as principal and‘
$22,394.83 as interest, making a total
claim of $9639483 has been filed
against the Tabernacle Baptist
Church by A. C. Erwin, L. K. Smith
and J. ¥, Shehane, administrators of
the estate of the late James M. Smith,
mililonaire Georgia planter.
The action was based on the loan
of $74000 made to the church by
Smith August 14, 1811, The suit
asked that a special lien be levied |
'on the church property to secure thfl'
alleged indebtedness. In addition to
the church, it named several Individ
ual members as defendants, including
Dr. Len GG, Broughton, former pastor,
who fathered the movement for tho‘
extansive work built up by the Tab-!
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To felieve Food Shortage
- WASHINGTON, Dec, 21.-~The Finnish
Government has “.x.p«.n--d to the United
States for assistance in releving an
acute food shortage, it is learned at the
‘.\‘uxv Department
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. VIDALIA KNIGHTS FLECT, ’
VIDALIA, Dee. 31 Newly-elected offis
cers of Vidalia Lodge No. B§B2, Knights of |
Pythias, are H. Lee Burkhalter, ¢, O,
J.T. Steptoe, V. C; (. 8 Rountree, l'n--l
Inte: 1.. J. Harrell, M. of W.: G. 1. Thomaa
K. of R and ¥ Chess Abernathy, M nf!
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firmament that seems to be more gens
eral in primitive times than by means
of the geometriec device of five points.
However, there is not the slightest
question that this conventional estoile
would have made a far less beautiful
effect on the national flag had it been
there used to represent the star. sows
ever, ‘in_ heraldic devices wherever it
was wished to represent a star the
estoile—with six points wavy as shown,
Thus in the coat-of-arms of Sir Fran
cis Drake, given to him to commemorate
his voyages, we see sable a fess wavy
between the arctic and antarctic pole
stars argent. ~And they are represented
by the estoile—never by the mullet.
In the accompanying coat-of-arms—
one used by the Ashtons-—which is sim
ply: argent a mullet sable—we have one
of the simplest ways of using the mul
let. It is here pierced according to tne
heraldic custom. The Washington mul
let was likewise pierced, but as soon as
it found its way into the flag this piere
ing was no longer used.
Although the mullet is fre?uently
used as a constituent in coats-of-arms,
it is likewise used as one of the marks
of difference. That is, it is used as one
of the family emblems, but it also may
be used on any family coat-of-arms
when that coat is berne by a third son,
just as what is known as the label is
used to indicate its use by the eldest
son, the crescent for the second, the
martlet for the fourth or the amulet for
the fifth. Needless to say, we do not
trouble our heads about marks of ca
dency or difference in this country.
When used in this way the mullet is
placed in what is known as the “fess
point” of the shield.
~ But to the very few persons compara
tively does this five-pointed device m
dicate either the cadency of a third son
on a spur rowel. As the fame of
American institutions becomes more
and more widespread, more and more
will the star be regarded as the great
emblem of freedom and liberty. lln
fact, there is no heraldic device that
is so full of association as this one is
with the people of this land. It means
perhaps more to us than the shamvock
or quarefoil does to the Irish or the lily
or quatrefoil does to the Irish or the lily
recently used in our service flags, it has
achieved a new chance for distinetion
and there hecomessinseparably asso
fmed with the* honor of patriotic serv
ce,
(Copyright by McClure Syndicate.)
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Rain Plays Havoe With
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Xmas Trade in Albany
ALBANY, Dec. 2L —Continued
raing for the last week throughout
this section have cost Albany mer
chants thousands of dollars in
Christmas trade which failed to come
here. The retail district of Albany
draws a large percentage of its trade
‘rmm a wide territory in South Geor
gla, North Florida and Southeastern
Alabama. Shoppers come here from
as far away as 100 miles by automo
biles, and during the last week roads
have ben m poor condition for auto
traveling.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 21 —“After 60 days
therfe will never be a banguet served In
this eity by men walters. Within a year
women will he serving banquets for the
whole country.*
This was the assertion of Osear Tsohirky,
manager of the Waldorf-Astoria, before a
reprosentative gathering of hotel men.
Oscar's announcement was greeted with
npplause Many of the hotel men pre
dicted that women would soon be serv.
ing in the aining rooms of all the big ho
tels in the country
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HOMER RAMSEY.
LYERLY, GA., Dec. 21.-—-Homer Ram
gey, a prominent young farmer of Hay
wood Valley, died at his home at Hay
wood, following an attack of influenza
and pneumonta, He is Aur'vived':)! his
wife, his mother. three sisters and five
hrothers
MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1918
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The woman suffrage movement in
Atlanta and Georgia is not degad. It
was only laid aside for the period of
the war, and it is to be revived with
even greater energy than ever now
that the war is over, leaders in the
work declared Saturday.
The women feel that they have
demonstrated in the last year, as they
never did before, that they are enti
tled to a voice in the affaire of their
country, their States and their com
munities, and they purpose keeping
on until they get it,
“We object to men saving ‘the
women have won the vote' We did
not win the right to vote, for we had
it all the time,” said*Mrs. Beaumont
Davison, one of the most active worl
ers in the Fulton and DeKalb County
branch of the Kqual Suffrage Party.
She was at her desk in the Healey
Building, where for a week she had
been directing the woman's division
»f the Red (‘ross Roll Call, a cam
paign in wi.ch it was admitted that
upon the work of the women hung
the success of the cause
Women Prove Right.
“But we do feel” continued Mrs.
Davison, “that in the last Vear the
woemen have proved beyond the doubt
of even the most obstinate opponent
that they have the inteiligence, the
energy and the business ability, which
entitles them to a share in the affairs
of their nation.
“When the United States entered
the war the suffragists voted to lay
aside their own desires, their own
propaganda, and throw all their ef
forts into whatever cause might arise
which demanded their services,
“KEveryone knows something of the
work the women have done, how they
have borne the burden in Liberty
Loan campaigns, work for the Red
Cross, the united war work, in every
thing that has come up. The men al
ways have been ready to give us
credit for excellent work and sue
ceesful efforts.
“Now we are going to resume our
insistence of being allowed to vote
We lack onlylone vote in the United
States Senate to pass the Federal
amendment giving women the rfzht
to vote in national electlons, a step
whirh would assure them the vote in
State and city elections also
To Organize in Country,
“Up to this time the Georgia suf
fragists have heen organized ornly in
the cities and larger towns, but we
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MARTHA CANDLER HOME, Auburn Ave. and lvy St
BUFORD MEMORIAL HOME, 143 and 145 Spring St.
JULIA HOWELL HOME, Corner Peeples and Howell Place.
CREW STREET HOME, 44 Crew St.
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2d. To surround the homes with Christmas fluences and make the honses
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Bth. To provide physical training conrses for girls from all five of the homes =&
the central Martha Candler Home, where trained teachers are empioyed.
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ALBANY, Dee. 21.—0il mills in Soutn
Georgia face the propesition of having
installed new machinery for crushing
peanuts and no peanuts to crush an.
other wyear. The price of peanuts
throughout the h(n'x*l-sling season, just
closed, has been so extremely low* that
many farmers are planning entirely to
aiscontinue the plantinggof them.
In many counties in "g;outh Georgia
the Spanish peanut has for the last
twe or three years constituted the chief
money crop for farmers, who turned
te them when the boll weevil came and
made cotton culture less profitable than
it had been in the past. Last year
peanuts commanded a very good price
and farmers who grew them made
money n most instances. This year,
despite the advance in prices of labor,
fertilizers, farm implements and every
thing going into the cost of production
the price of peanuts has been actually
less than last year,
In the latter part of September of
this year farmers gathered here from
28 counties and formed the Georgia
Peanut Growers' Association to deal
with the steadily declining prices. The
State bureau of markets was represent -
ed at the meeting and has co-operated
with the peanut men since. but neither
of these organizations has been able to
heck the decline.
Farmers in many communities are de
wl-ss«-:l and are threatening to give up
a line to whieh they have devoted their
lives. Cotton prices are out of line
arnd the boll weevil causes the crop to
be untertain at best. Livestosk prices
are at the bottom, being in some cases
less than half the price quoted at the
Chicago market, and packing houses in
this section actually refusing to bid on
hogs at any price. The Tifton Packing
house has shut down until after Christ
mas and those at Moultrie and Jack
sonville are not very actively in the
market. Christmas will be a blue
Christmas in many a South Georgia
farmers’ home.
are now making plans for organiza
tion in the rural counties. Ve are
using the list of women who worked
in the united war work campaizn, and
expect in this Way to organtze a
group in each county which will carry
on the suffrage work there,
“Resolutions asking support for the
Federal suffrage amendment are to be
sent soon to Senators Hoke Smith
and Thomas W, Hardwick, from their
Georgia constituents. These resolu
tions will not only be signed by thou
sands of wnrxnn. but indorsed by
many organizations of business men
to whom the war and woman’s share
in war work has brought a different
view of suffrage.”