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THIS THANKSGIVING.
This Thanksgiving Day eclipses all. We have so much
to be thankful for! Yet we can but dimly see through the
mists of joy that gather in the eyes a few of the good things
which are falling on our heads and on all the world.
The first Thanksgiving Day on the shores of New Eng
land in 1621 was celebrated by the Pilgrims in solemn fast
ing and prayer. Bountiful harvests had scattered famine
shadows as sunlight drives away gloom after rain.
That was a solemn Thanksgiving Day. the first cele
brated after the close of the great Civil Conflict of the 60’s.
Our grandfathers and grandmothers bowed in thankfulness
for the freedom of 4,000,000 bondmen, for the returning
heroes of liberty, for the honor of the noble dead, for an un
divided country.
We who gather on this Thanksgiving Day have greater
cause for thankfulness than has fallen to any generation
since the Annunciation.
We see a world with shackles broken and dungeons
demolished.
We see liberty proclaimed to all the peoples of the
earth.
We see the Brotherhood of Man approaching “on the
wings of the morning.”
We see America’s sons returning victorious over des
potism, crowned with glory.
We see the graves of the fallen sons of Liberty be
come the landmarks of Freedom, the holy shrines of the
New Time.
We see our favored land secure from Famine and un
touched by the torch, riding on the waves of world events to
a greater leadership of mankind, to a purer, deeped pros
perity than it has ever known, than its founders ever en
visioned in their most exalted moments.
In our secure homes, in our places of congregation and
worship we’ll gather with melodies in our hearts, with
songs on our lips. Never have we known such a Thanks
giving Day as this. Never can we know such another until
the advent of Endless Thanksgiving Day.
McAOOO'S RESIGNATION.
The country wa* »omewhat star
tled at the new* that Hecrotary
McAdoo had handed In hla resig
nation for both position*. «b«
treasury portfolio and the director
generalship of the railroad*. Yet.
when he wa* appointed to the rail
road position It waa xa<d t'.ut he
would give UP the treasury and
devote hi* whole time and atten
tion to railroad work The office
of director seneral, howevc- tad
no salary attached, and he fmird
the aalarv of secretary of the
treasury Insufficient for his needa
lie was therefore Impelled to Rive
Ul Thls l Is substantially what Mc-
Adoo himself says and what the
public Is bound to accept. H< may
have presidential *.*plrations--he
doubtless has -few men of Mm at
talnmenta have not. '' ol,l ‘ t ’ l , y '
entertained some such thought be
fore he received the appointment,
certainly ho has no cause to re
linquish It subsequently. Ho not
only held down both jobs, nut
came out with flying colors.
It was under his management of
the Treasury Department that the
finest financial system on earth
was successfully launched, by
which the greatest war tu his
tory was financed to h highly sat
isfactory conclusion. McAdoo
started the Regional and the Kami
Ixian Banka and licked them Into
ehepe l’rtor to this time wr had
a lanndeacrlpt hanking syetcin.
centered In Wall Htreel that was
wholly Inadeuate to benefit the
farming clsas that composes a
largs and Important v' as of our
population. Although performing
the functions of feeding and rloth
lng the world, they had not the
proper facilities for financing their
crops, hut on the contrary they
were at the nircy of Wall Htreel
speculators and gambler*.
McAdoo took charge of the rail
roads at a time when they were
in the eame fix as the hanks.
Transportation represents one
third (he value of every product,
and II will readily be seen how im
portant a part It play* In all the
affairs of the life of the people
When run properly, they are the
greatest developers known, hut
when Improperly run they are a
Might upon the prosperity of cities,
states and entire sections. They
can remove the prosperity from
one slate and transplant It In an
other state.
McAdoo reorganised these two
co-ordinate branches of govern
ment and put them to working
so aa to produce the best results
fer all the people. lie brought
them under the power of the gov
ernment, which inane them tun In
their natural way, not discrimi
nating against any. The eitlre
country is Indebted to. the con
structive genius of McAdoo and If
he has the ambition to become
president It will he fortunate In
securing hla services.
EIGHT GOVERNORS MAKE AP
PEAL.
The governors of eight cotton
states Join In an appeal to the
farmers not to sell I heir cotton at
present prices The governors of
Georgia. South Carolina, Texas,
North Carolina, Arkansas, Mis
sissippi, Alabama and Flor la have
Issued a Joint proclamation
through .1. J. Brown, at Atlanta,
urging the farmers, merchants,
hankers and business men to hold
their cotton for .15 cents a pound,
middling basis. Brown la the head
of the Cotton Rfstes Marketing
Board The appeal to the farmers
Is to hold for a price "equal to
the ooat of production plus a fair
profit ”
There's a htg conspiracy formed
to depress the price of the farm
ers' cotton. Kvery subterfuge Im
aginable la being worked to gouge
the farmers and get their cotton
at their own figures. Mountains
are being made of mole hllla in
order to aueeae the market and
create an abnormal condition of
trade, but for once the farmers
hold the whip handle and If they
only hold tight they are bound to
win
The farmers are not asking any
thing but a suare deal. They don't
want what they are not entitled to.
The price of St cents la not un
reasonable under the circumstan
ce* and they must get it to i>#
properly remunerated for their toll
•nd the time It take* to make a
crop. Wheraaa, the fakir* In the
cotton market are selling futures
against their actual good cotton
and working the grapevine for all
» la worth to frighten the farm
era and shake them loose. Let
them buy and sell to suit them
selves. hut If they cannot get the
actual cotton, where are they at?
Ix>( them slide the market up
and down to their heart's content.
It don't get Vm anything if the
farmers hare the right kind of grit
In their craws. What you did la
Kntered at the Augusta. C,a.. Poetof
ffee a* Mall Matter of the 2nd Class,
1914 you can do again. Don’t sell
a balo that you are not obliged
to sell. But plant wheat and oata
and raiae plenty of hog* and pat
tlc. Plant a plenty of vegetable!)
In the gardens. Then alt on your
cotton till the nowa come home.
It. won’t he long before the rich
faklra will begin to shell out. But
hold tight until they do!
THE PRESIDENT TO FRANCE.
President Wilson will go to
France to attend the peace confer
ence, where his prescence is re
ulrcd at the great council of na
tions. Being the greatest nation In
the world. It la expected of him
that he will sit at the head of tho
peaec table and exercise a potent
Influence In "shaping the greater
outlines of the final tredty" which
play so Important a part In the
world’s future. Having taken a
conspicuous stand In events that
led up to the final consummation of
tho allies victory. It la fit and
proper that he should be present on
this most momentous occasion
when they are sealed In the pact.
President Wilson breaks, u pre
cedent when he goes outside of
this countrya boundaries and
places himself heqeath a foreign
flag. But what do precedents
amount to on th'ls unprecedented
occasion? Precedents are mile
stones along the pathway to point
out the way to tho doubtful or
Inexperienced. Napoleon would
have died at the gate of Toulon
If he had relied on precedents.
W'hen the way Is clear and the
principle Is right why hesitate?
fleorge Washington and Thomas
•lefferson had few precedents hut
that did not stop them: they went
ahead and Hot the precedent' WII-,
son has weighed the matter well
and decided that his personal par
ticipation in the discussions that
arise Is necessary. That settles It.
• The President will sail for
France Immediately after the
opening of the regular session of
congress This means the middle
of December. The discussions at
the conference may consume much
time, as many countries Hre in
volved and their status must be
adjusted separately. But he does
not count on remaining all during
the session of the peace conference
but merely to give his views on
the outlines ami leave the details
to be worked out by the body of
delegates. The delegates from this
country have not as yet been an
nounced.
It is assumed that tho peaec con
ference will he held at Versailles,
as that Is where many of the most
notable conferences of this charac
ter have been held in the past.
France has borne the brunt of the
war and come out victorious and
Versailles Is the moat appropriate
place In France to hold It The
diplomats from all the entente na
tions will gather there and decide
momentous questions In regard to
the future map of the world The
conference would be Incomplete
without Wilson's voice at the peace
table
HERE'S A WHOPPER.
Balnbrldge, Decatur county. Ga.,
has monumentalised Itself by grow
ing the biggest sweet potato on the
top side of the globe. The potato
weighs IOVj pounds and Is of the
Porto Rleo variety. It waa grown
b>' W. L. Martin, a farmer, and
also a rural route carrier, who
sent It as the largest potato In the
world as a present to the biggest
man In the world
Mr. Martin aeoured the Decatur
count swamps trying to secure the
biggest possum In the world as a
fitting accompaniment for his po
tato, But he had to give it up as
n had Job. The possums that he
hspiieneil to catch were all little
fellows by comimrlson. ranging
from 1J to 15 pounds. Under the
possum and tater rule, the possum
should be the equal If not the big
gest. There has been a neck and
neck race between possums and ta
ter. but this tater seems to be
several laps In the lead.
In order to make It a clean case
of plate poltshlng. with everything
equalised. Mi Martin needs s im
pound possum and he shouldn't
allow Rattler and Ring to have
any rest til he gets him. The law
of compensation requires that for
exery JO-pound tater there must
be a to-pound possum, otherwise
this opechal tater might be wasted,
thereby Incurring the displeasure
of Mr Hoover Therefore the SO
pounder should be forthcoming,
both In order to make the Presi
dent's meal symmetrical and to
sweep sway the last vestige of
doubt that Oeorgte still retains ths
title of Empire State of the South.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
TODAY'S POEM
HATE.
By Edmund Vance Cook.
How mean and narrow are tne bounda
of Hate.
its field is corn passed by a thorny gate,
Past which no power may go.
Mayhap l hate my foe
And match my destiny against his
death.
From his limp body I despoil the breath
And trample out the life
Of wee ones and of wife.
Resolved that not a being of his breed
Hhall ever set his hand against my
seed.
Triumphant In malevojeme and pride.
With hate exhausted, am I satisfied?
Nay, I am barbed upon the thorny
gate
And baffled by the smallness of my
hate.
Within Its narrow wall,
I cringe, I cower, T fall.
The seed I thought was burled was
hut sowed -
And every way I turn is thomed and
foed.
Cribbed and confined, below, beyond,
above,
Is hate and all the manifests thereof,
But tell me, what the metes and bounds
of love?
WAR QUESTIONS
German Cavalry.
Kindly tell a reader for what the
Germans used a collapsible boa«t?—
Otto.
In the field It was a form of boat
adopted for German cavalry, suffi
ciently strong to admit of the found
ation of a bridge by which artillery
could be passed over rivers.
Honor Bestowed.
To whom are wound chevrons given
and for what?-- Rose B.
They are given to each officer and
enlisted man who is wounded in ac
tion or disabled by gas.
One of Firat Cases.
When were uniforms adopted for use
In battle? Were they always used?—
M. B. 0.
The famed Legions of Caesar were
by Imperial order all garbed and armed
alike, which is one of the first recorded
cases of the use of a uniform for sol
diers. Some of the regiments of Han
nlbui also wore distinctive colors, prac
tlcally amounting to a unlfo:.n.
Selected Warriors.
Who were the Satellites?—Student.
Certain armed men selected by Philip
Augustus, king of France, who fought
on foot und on horseback. The ser
vants or batmen who attended the
military knights when they went Into
action wen likewise called Satellites.
Rainbow Division.
My brother went across with the
Rainbow Division. He was wounded
and now Is a military police. He is
away from tho division. Will he be
sent home with the Rainbow Division?
—J. K.
He will he sent home with the di
vision he is In at present.
U. S. Ships.
Please tell in what kind of a ship
the Pennsylvania is?—L. F. L.
The Pennsylvania may he one of the
new merchant ships which the govern
ment has built. The Pennsylvania,
of the navy is a dreadnaught.
Have Not Been Notified.
My brother enlisted In the cavalry
In May. Is stationed in Texas. Are
those boys among the ones to be mus
tered out of service? —O.
War Depart meat has not sent out
notices regarding this.
Cases Are Different.
If a soldier I* under arrest and ha*
not been notified will the government
allow him to come home If he has an
honorable disrharge and the party does
not prosecute ?—His Mother.
Civil eases have nothing to do with
the government. If he has an hon
orable discharge the government will
allow him to come home. It Is then
up to the party to prosecute or not,
whatever he wants to do .after the
man has again become a civilian.
Not Overcrowded.
What will be the percentage of In
crease In demand for civil engineers In
F. S A. created by the war? Will the
profession ho overcrowded?—A Pros
pective Htudont.
Statistics relative to this sort of
work have not been compiled. Un
doubtedly every profession has suf
fered heavily from the war. There are
nearly always vacancies at the top of
any profession.
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WASHINGTON LETTER
Wilson Is Going to Peace Con
ference to Drive a Nail In
the Coffin of War
BY E. C. RODGERS.
PEACE TABLE PROBLEMS.
May Be Left Over for Fiture
DISCUSBION.
1— League of nations.
2 Freedom of seas.
3 Daylight diplomacy.
Must Be Solved At Conference.
1— Fate of Alsace-Lorraine.
2 Territory on west bank of
Rhine.
3 Belgium’s future.
4 German colonies.
5 Heligoland naval base.
6 Italian frontiers.
7 Albania.
8— Austria.
9 Poland.
10— Remapping Balkan states.
11— -Schleswig.
12.—Turkey in Europe, Con
tinoplc.
13— Palestine. Armenia. Mes
opotamia. Syria.
14— Japan in the Orient.
15— Restorations and repara
tions by Germans, Bulgars,
Austrians, Turks.
16~Guaranteeing German pay-i
merit of damages.
Washington, D. C. —Woodrow Wil
son, president of the United States, is
going to the peace conference, with
one Abject, one purpose, one aim—
To do what he can to end wars, and
to make it possible that peace will be
lasting.
Those who know W’llson best know
that he isn't going over there to pose,
or make a speech, or hobnob with rul
ers, crowned and uncrowned. They are
sure Wilson would like to dodge all the
publicity which will be heaped upon
him in France and Britain, and else
where. They know he would rather go
over as a private citizen, unacclaimed
and unapplauded by kings and crowds.
They know he would rather sit here at
his white house desk and act through
the commissioners he will appoinL
But Wilson has committed himself
to:
The League of Nations.
The freedom of the seas.
Daylight diplomacy.
Down deep in his heart, the presi
dent believes that only through the
world-wide adoption of those three
principles may future wars be avoided
and peace become lasting.
And there will be opposition to thpse
three principles. Opposition already
is developing both in America and in
Europe.
Some high Americans oppose any
league whch includes nations with
whom the allies were at war. Wilson
believes any half-league cannot last.
He will explain how limitation of
naval and military armament may be
effected- in formation of the League of
Nations.
Rritish opposition already is shaping,
but he ho[>eß to persuade the British
to his point of view.
Freedom of the seas is another vex
atious problem. Few here understand
Wilson's idea. Great Britain fears it
means her finish as “mistress of the
seas." Others see it as an anti-pro
tective tariff movement. As defined
by Col. House It Is neither, but is the
freeing of the seas to all non-contra
band commerce in peace and war alike,
and the limiting of a nation's rights in
placing articles of commerce in the
contraband group.
Secret diplomacy always has been a
thorn to the president. He wants to
do away with It, for he holds it re
sponsible for many wars.
With everything done and said, writ
ten and sgned, in the full knowledge of
the world, the president believes it
impossible for any set of diplomats to
arrange alliances of nations against
each other for territorial aggrandize
ment or personal power.
Wilson is going across because he
thinks (and most of his advisors
agree with him) that it will be abso
lutely necessary for him to meet the
opponents of the League of Nations,
the freedom of the seas, and daylight
diplomacy face to face, argument to
argument, to put the weight of his per
sonality and brain onto the scales up
on which the peare and wars of the
future are to be weighed.
TO THE
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All letters confidential. Only
the' most typical ones will be
printed in The Herald.
I have a gentleman friends and ev
ery time he Is with me he wants to
hold my hand. He says he doesn't
mean any harm and unless I let him
hold my hand, I am not a good friend.
I laugh at him and then he gets angry.
What shall I tell him?
Whether he means any harm or not,
I think your friend Is altogether too
sentimental. It is not proper to let
a man hold your hand or be in tne.
slightest way familiar, and I should
tell him very dlstinm.y mat, unless
he stopped that sort of thing, you did
did care to sec him any more. He
will respect you a great deal more If
you take that attitude. Men some
times try girls out to see if they allow
little formalities like that, and, if they
do, the men have no use for them.
I am a very young girl and I have
just accepted my first position in an
office. My employer calls me "BrowN
nie” because I wear a brown dress,
and it makes me very angry. He ask
ed me to go out to dinner with him
some night and I told him I wouldn’t.
He only laughed. I want to leave ano
get a position somewhere else, hut my
mother is sick and T need all the
money I can earn and I hate to think
of being without a position even for a
few days. What shall I do?
I should advise you to find another
position immediately. Evidently, you*
employer is not a gentlemao or a suit
able person for a young girl to work
for. You are right never to accept an
invitation from his sort. I should tevi
him that I had a name and preferred
to be called by it. If he realizes that
you mean business, possibly he mav
not ann*y you. But do try to find
another position.
I often go to dances with other
girls. Sometmes 1 have danced with
men I didn' know. They were very
nice but I wondered if you would tell
m if there Is any good reason why a
man should be formally introduced t<*
a girl before she dances with him? I
live in a small town in Pennsylvania
and don’t know what is considered
proper n a bg cty Ike New York. My
mother ded when I was very young. So
I have no one to ask. v
I have so many letters from moth
erless girls. It is one of the saddest
things I know of for a girl to grow up
without a mother to turn to for advice
and help. No, a girl is not supposeu
to know a man. much less dance wi\n
him, until the usual formal introduc
tion haa taken place. When dne has
a man introduced tc her. she should
be able to assume that the person in
troducing them can vouch for him, or
has found him interesting or pleasant
company. Many men refuse to intro
duce certain other men to their sisters,
thus showing thta they do not considei
them desirable acquaintances. That
is why one should wait for an Intro
duction before becoming acquainted
with a strange man.
Are sheer georgette blouses In good
taste for office or store wear? I have
seen so many girls wearing them late
ly but I personally prefer something
heavier and more tailored.
I think your taste is far better than
that if a girl who wears a sheer geor
gette blose to work. A simple geor
gette blouse in very hot weather woul«
certainly be correct, but I agree wita
you that a tailored silk or crepe ae
chine is more suitable for a business
woman.
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Liquid Digestive Laxative for Indigestion
or Constipation. Pleasant to take. Now
made and recommended by the manufac
turers of Grove’s Tasteless chill Tonic.—
Adv.
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Recipes for Thanks
giving Dinner
BAKED ONIONS.
Boil large onions for ten minutes. Drain and
cool; remove the centers with a sharpe knife. Chop
the centers and add bread crumbs and seasonings,
moisten with milk if necessary until of packing con
sistency, fill the centers of the onions with the mix
ture, put buttered crumbs on the top and bake in the
oven until tender and the crumbs brown.
PUMPKIN PIE FILLING.
Stew pumpkin with a little water, sift through
a strainer. For each pie take
1 cupful pumpkin Corn syrup to taste
2 cupfuls milk V 4, teaspoon ginger
14 teaspoonful cinnamon Grating of nutmeg.
l"egg
Mix all in the ingredients and bake in a crust in
a slow oven.
GRAPE AND PECAN SALAD.
Dip white grapes *into water that has just stopped
boiling for one-half minute, plunge into cold water.
Skin, mak* a tiny opening and remove the seed. Put
into a French dressing to marinate. Just before serv
ing. drain, and insert, in the place of the seed, a tiny
piece of pecan or other nut. Serve very cold on let
tuce or romaine with a French dressing.
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