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I'NXON KECOROER, MLLEOGEM.LE, GEORGIA, *^»T* BOONE’S PHARMACY Dru^s, Toilet Articles, Soap Stationery. Cigars, Tobacco \ complete line of these articles ■ inr store. _ art* lwayg found Our Prescription Department Is! in charge of a Licensed and expe rienced druggist, who fills all pre scriptions accurately and prompt ly with the purest drugs. A! 1 deliveries made promptly, We sell forCash'On’y BOONES PHARMACY Barney Price "Phase (ration Smith prove. Baruch Breaks Senator Smith Replies to of Cotton—One Attack of His Opponents for Protecting Cotton Farmers in IP to. ’ of the Adminis- Which Senator Does Not Ap- Th Attorney General has offer ed himself to yo.t as a candidate that you may have an opportunity f approving “every phase" of the administration of President Wilson. Then- are many splendid achieve ments of his administration, hut there arc things which he has done which 1 hope he himself regrets, and you are asked to 'approve them by voting for Mr. Palmer. I.et me call your attention to two ti ng.s which I disapprove and that yo . ran not approve. During 1018 cotton had steadily advanced in price until, about the t of September, it reached tl.ir- ^ iti#n and our St ate Dc- t\-eight cents a pound. 1 lie Tresi- parlmt . n t. (Ma-ch 31, 1915) notified dent had a board, called the War, Great Britain that her interference Industries Board, the Chairman of; with shipments of non-contraband September 4th Mr. Baruch issued a; j kept up a constant fight all statement that, with the approval ] through 1915 and into 1916 in favor 0 the President, the War Indus-' of the freedom of the seas for the ivir p , i ii , „ • * , shipments of cotton to neutral I.oau would appoint a com- f Great Britain felt the justice 1 ;• ? tud y cotton with a S f tll0 crit icism. British courts and ■,, Ah. and they kent on issuing . ^ am , a{|vised officia , 8 of oar I see that some if my friends in Gainesville were displeased with my course in 1915, when 1 insisted upon the freedom of the seas and the right of citizens cf Georgia to ship their cotton into every neutral port of the world. In the Russian-Japane.se war Russia sought to stop cotton ship ments to Japan. England protested against this action and made Rus sia yield. I knew our people had the right to sell their cotton in any neutral port of the world; 1 knew that this right was established by international law. My constituents had suffered so much from the loss of markets for their cotton in I!»14 that I was bent upon obtaining for them their well-established rights to the freedom of the seas and the freedom of the use of neutral ports. I President Wilson took exactly the 35th, another and they kept s au ments until they had-broken 1 Gvt that Great Britain on Ai the price of coHon more than abou1 cf July wou i d ;; -on s “ pounu. .Among othei p!ace cotton on a contr aband list, tir Vhu stated in then bul e- They knew this also was illegal, m cn i e - com . m,tteo re ‘ and wanted to know how they could "mmend basic nriees.and the Pres-I make up t0 the United Sta { es for the losses which their conduct < ummend basic prices,and the Pre idem appoint a single purchasing S y nv r a M COtt c n ex ^r ted : the y would cause; they were told it could ,,, A • . t le pi*ces this agency ■ a j. j caat . j n p ar t he done by buying e, remoye ail competition co tton heavily immediately follow- amnng buyers and force cotton owners to sell at the prices they named. This threat, of course, 1 1’oke the market. Hie. armistice came November ’Ah, and the war was over. Cotton 1 ud lieen put by the President on embargo list, preventing any ex- lieavily immediately ing the order making cotton contra band. I am sure this suggestion was carried out. The day after the an nouncement that Great Britain had put cotton upon the contraband iist the price of cotton went up on the Liverpool Exchange; the day fol- I’ouation of cotton except under j ow ing it went up on the New York Y 13 , 1 ho , might prescribe. He Exchange, and in a few days it was piiumtod. wnat he called, a War publicly known that British inter- r . PS K °ard to regulate licenses g^g were buying cotton heavily on " exporting cotton. This Board t-h e New York Cotton Exchange. Hied to suppress exports after Then representatives of German in var was over. | terests came to Washington to find Ail the Southern Senators except out why cotton advanced, although signed a petition urging the I put upon the cotton contraband list, c-ident to take cotton off the cfri-1 They concluded it was because a "K<> list, and give a chance to' our 1 British interests knew peace would "Akets. I saw the President a - umber of times and # called his at- nl, ,,n. when cotton got down to ■ut twenty-six cents a pound, to i; danger of bringing ruin, not ' >’ to the farmers, but upon the ! " M hunts and bankers who had ad- , "d upon cotton. Even in March, when he returned from ■'•, we plead witli him to take ; 'i off the embargo list, but he ' - >ed. There was no justification ’ conduct. He and Mr. Baruch Mr. Vance McCormack, with ’wo committees, broke the their Price tei fif soon be made, so they began buying cotton Heavily also, and our crop of 1915 sold higher than it did be fore the European war began. In December, 1915, Sir Richard Crawford, the Financial Agent of British interests, showed in Wash ington a statement which disclosed the very heavy purchases they had made in August and September up on the New York Cotton Exchange and from the sale of which, later on in the reason, they had cleared over four millions of dollars. I know the fight 1 made for the seventy* ■i cotton in the fall rind win-j fre ‘ e( Tom of the‘seas, both through i f| an “ 1919 more than the press of the country, where in vnJtr e ai ? d they cost! many instances 1 paid out of my " is of cotton, in the State; own p 0 ekct for publications, and on the floor of the Senate, where I spoke elaborately upon the subject, contributed substantially towards restoring the price of cotton, and the knowledge of the service 1 ren dered the people I love cannot bo taken away from me by slanderers* " °' tna a loss of over ' 11 lions of dollars, r i) ls ^ one libase of the Presi- " “dmimstratiou that I do not rove. Do you? And yct Mr. ? 3ks you to v °te for him JUse he approves it. (Advertisement) SAYS U. $. MUST i LEARN SHIPPING America Is Not Ready fer Great Merchant Marine, Asserts Payne. ANNOUNCEMENT OPENING 1 1 t us do your next job work Ourwork and prices RIGHT URGES EXTENM C4BWIGH Shipping Board He%d Insi Pd*. pie of This Country Must Ba Taught to Think and Act in Terms of Sea. New York.—Th(» tales of the s *n must become the gossip of the nursery and of the fireside if the United States hopes to develop n great, sueeotfcful mereimnl marine and become a nation of shipping, in tlie opinion *f John Bar ton 1'ayne, chairman of the United States shipping lx urd. who. In a lues sage to the members of the Old Colony j club, urges that a great public cam- j pnign lie inaugurated to trueh tlie pen- ] pie of America to “think and act in the language of shipping. “The war lias given us ships.” say* Mr. Payne. “We now have 1.300 ship , ping board ships, operating 41 trade i ; routes, currying our products - tinder our own flag Into the important world! I ports. By the end of 1020 this number | will he increased to some 2.250. Sales j j of ships to Americans are being made j but the sales .In not keep pace wilt j 1 the new launchings.” Is Pressing Problem. The problem of establishing a permn nont marine presses for solution. Mr. | i Payne emphasizes, lie contends that ■ no question of government ownership is involved. The question, lie says, i- not between public and private own j ersltip, but between American and for j oign ownership. “We want an established Amerieai 1 merchant marine; how it shall hr j owned is less important,” he says ] ' “We desire that every ship now gov-] eminent owned shall he sold to and : lie privately owned and operated by ] Americans for Americans, but that will ] come later. The ciiief thing in hand is j to create a merchant marine.” Ships alone will not create a mar chant marine. Mr. Payne reminds the Old Polony club members. “Indeed,” lie warns, “unless we have men. money and brains In the shipping business ships tuny become u liability rathei than an asset. How, then, may a mer clt,ant marine lie established? Tt can- j not lie done in a day. Tt cannot be ] done by legislation. It requires time I habit, growth and individual capacity. j Initiative and enterprise. “Many seem to think tHe shipping j hoard can do this by reducing prices of ] ships, and instantly shipping men will spring up and all our ships will lie [ bought by private owners, and. pres ] to! a merchant marine is a fact. This | is a serious error. A substantial reduc tion in price would undoubtedly sel' some 300 ships, but this would not touch the problem. Ships cannot be sold in large numbers until the enffi try is prepared to buy them. It 1* »*t now prepared. Must Acquire Ship Habit. “We have not acquired the ship hah It. Who loans money on ships? Who*, of your acquaintanceship would buy n ship mortgage? Are your neighbors sending their hoys to sen? Those things must come to pass before we- are a maritime nation, prepared tc buy over 2,000 ships. “My conclusion is it is not possible (o have a successful merchant marine until the country grows into the ship habit. The American newspapers nnf magazines must arouse the thinkinp | men among manufacturers, investmen'. bankers, farmers and labor to the I necessity for a merchant marine; tp-act the*people to think and act in the lan guage of shipping. They must first tin derstand, then they will net. “Already great strides are being made. Even now we have 300 firms oi companies operating shipping hoarf ships. They employ on land and seo nearly 00,000 men In the service. We mnintnin a reeruittng service ana school to teach officers, engineers nnc sailors how to do the work and fit there for the sen. “American insurance is essential Companies must he encouraged anf j new ones established, that we he nol dependent on foreign companies foj our ship insurance. The Amerioar bureau of shipping must lie developed I and strengthened to the end that in! all technical matters affecting ship ] ping we may lie independent of anj foreign institutions. To accomplish thb J task, all Americans must pull togeih er. The tales of the sen must become the gossip of tiie nursery and of the fireside.” E OnjGreen Street Opposite Warehouse of Samuel Evans Sons & Co We wish to Announce to the Automobile Owners of Baldwin iemhhmmkt-9?-■ ■» •- Countyfcfand this section that we are* prepared to repair all makes of CARS and render expert service on Tires ROAD SERVICE A SPECIALTY Vulcanizing Done by An Expert No Job Complete Until You Are Satisfied To Satisfy You of the Quality of Our Work is only necessary to place a Job with us. Dozier Brothers DRESS SIMPLIFIED BY QUEEN Low Necks Permitted at British Stat« Functions, But No Feathers or Veils. READY FOR DELIVERY At my Warehouse at Ga. R. R. 100 TONS HIGH GRADE FERTILIZER From my Stock can fill yout order for Sul phate of Ammonia, Nitrate of Soda and Ger= man Potash and all of the Mixed Fertilizers you want. Give me your order Now London.—Peeresses who ntfcfidei; I the state opening of parliament wore ] dresses with low necks, “hut without ; feathers and veils.” This was h.v order of the lord chain-1 borlnin. who has charge of all state j functions. Tt is understood that this now rule j was due lo Queen Mary’s determina tion that in future the dresses fot i women attending state - function? | should he of a simpler character than heretofore. Formerly the. gorgeous dresses of itvomen at these function* drove crowds of sightseers, and “court phetographers” diet a tftfc buWies*. WE WILL DO YOUR JOB PRINTING RIGHT AND DO IT QUICKLY.