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PRESIDENT TALKS
AT GETTYSBURG
His Address Is Chief Feature of
National Day at the
Celebration.
IS HEARD BY GREAT THRONG
Mr. Wilson Dwells on Present Duty
of the People in Finishing the
Nation Now Beloved
by All.
Gettysburg, Pa., July 4. —Many thou
sands of veterans from north and
south and of other visitors faced Pres
ident Wilson today as he delivered the
address which was the main feature ot
National day in the celebration of the
fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of
Gettysburg.
The president's address follows:
Friends and Fellow Citizens: I need
not tell you what the battle of Gettys
burg meant. These gallant men in
blue and gray sit all about us here.
Many of them met here upon this
ground in grim and deadly struggle.
Upon these famous fields and hillsides
their comrades died about them. In
their presence it were an impertinence
to discourse upon how the battle went,
how it ended, what it signified! But
50 years have gone by since then and
I crave the privilege of speaking to
you for a few minutes of what those
50 years have meant
What have they meant? They have
meant peace and union and vigor, and
the maturity and might of a great na
tion. How wholesome and healing the
peace has been! We have found one
another again as brothers and com
rades in arms, enemies no longer, gen
erous friends rather, our battles long
past, the quarrel forgotten—except
that we shall not forget the splendid
valor, the manly devotion of the men
then arrayed against one another, now
grasping hands and smiling Into each
other’s eyes. How complete the union
has become and how dear to all of us,
how unquestioned, how benign and
majestic, as state after state has been
added to this great family of free
men! How handsome the vigor, the
maturity, the might ot the great na
tion we love with undivided hearts;
how full of large and confident prom
ise that a life will be wrought out
that will crown Its strength with gra
cious justice and a happy welfare that
will touch all alike with deep content
ment! We are debtors to those 50
crowded years; they have made us
heirs to a mighty heritage.
Nation Not Finished.
But do we deem the nation com
plete and finished? These venerable
men crowding here to this famous
field have set us a great example of
devotion and utter sacrifice. They
were willing to die that the people
might live. But their task is done.
Their day le turned Into evening. They
look to us to perfect what they estab
lished. Their work is handed on to
us, to be done in another way but not
in another spirit. Our day is not over;
it is upon us in full tide.
Have affairs paused? Does the
nation stand still? Ib it what the 50
years have wrought since those days
of battle finished, rounded out, and
completed? Here is a great people,
great with every force that has ever
beaten in the lifeblood of mankind.
And it is secure. There Is no one
within its borders, there is no
power among the nations of the earth,
to make it afraid. But has it yet
squared Itself with its own great
standards set up at its birth, when It
made that first noble, naive appeal to
the moral judgment of mankind to
take notice that a government had
now at last been established which
was to serve men, not masters? It is
secure in everything except the satis
faction that its life is right, adjusted
to the uttermost to the standards of'
righteousness and humanity. The
days ot sacrifice and cleansing are
not closed. We have harder things
to do than were done In the heroic
days of war, because harder to see
clear!*, requiring more vision, more
calm balance of judgment, a more
candid searching of the very springs
of right.
Tribute to Their Valor.
Look around you upon the field of
Gettysburg! Picture the array, the
Cerce heats and agony of battle, col
umn hurled against column, battery
bellowing to battery! Valor? Jes!
Greater no man shall see in war; and
self-sacrifice, and loss to the utter
most; the high recklessness of exalt
ed devotion which does not count the
cost. We are made by these tragic,
epic things to know what It costs to
make a nation —the blood and sacri
fice of multitudes of unknown men
lifted to a great stature in the view
of all generations by knowing no limit
to their manly willingness to serve.
In armies thus marshaled from the
ranks of free men you will see, as it
were, a nation embattled, the leaders
and the led, and may know, if you
will, how little except in form its
action differs in days of peace from
its action In days of war.
May we break camp now and be at
ease? Are the forces that fight for the
Nation dispersed, disbanded, gone to
their homes forgetful of the common
cause? Are our forces disorganized,
without constituted leaders and the
might of men consciously united be
cause we contend, not with armies, but
with principalities and powers and
wickedness in high places. Are we
content to He still? Does our union
mean sympathy, our peace content
ment, our vigor right action, our ma
turity self-comprehension and a clear
confidence in choosing what we shall
do? War fitted us for action, and ac
tion never ceases.
Our Laws the Orders of the Day.
I have been chosen the leader of
the Nation. I cannot justify the choice
by any qualities of my own. but so it
has come about, and here I stand.
Whom do I command? The ghostly
hosts who fought upon these battle
fields long ago and are gone? These
gallant gentlemen stricken in years
whose fighting days are over, their
glory won? What are the orders for
them, who rallies them? I have in my
mind another host, whom these set
free of civil strife in order that they
might work out in days of peace and
settled order the life of a great na
tion. That host is the people theqk
selves, the great and the small, with
out class or difference of kind or
race or origin; and undivided in inter
est, if we have but the vision to guide
and direct them and order their lives
aright in what we do. Our constitu
tions are their articles of enlistment.
The orders of the day are the laws
upon our statute books. What we
strive for is their freedom, their right
to lift themselves from day to day and
behold the things they have hoped
for, and so make way for still better
days for those whom they love who
are to come after them. The recruits
are the little children crowding in.
The quartermaster’s stores are In the
mines and forests and fields, in the
shops and factories. Every day some
thing must be done to push the cam
paign forward; and it must be done
by plan and with an eye to some great
destiny.
How shall we hold such thoughts in
our hearts and not be moved? 1
would not have you live even today
wholly in the past, but would wish to
stand with you in the light that
streams upon us now out of that
great day gone by. Here is the na-
tion God has builded by our hands.
What shall we do with it? Who stands
ready to act again and always in the
spirit ot this day of reunion and hope
and patriotic fervor? The day of our
country's life has but broadened into
morning. Do not put uniforms by.
Put the harness of the present on.
Lift your eyes to the great tracts of
life yet to be conquered in the inter
est of righteous peace, of that pros
perity which lies in a people's hearts
and outlasts all wars and errors of
men. Come, let us be comrades and
soldiers yet to serve our fellow men
in quiet counsel, where the blare of j
trumpets is neither heard nor heeded
and where the things are done which
make blessed the nations of the world
in peace and righteousness and love.
Where Rain Is a Curiosity.
For 2,000 miles of coast, as more
Americans than are at present in
formed will doubtless discover as soon
as the Panama canal develops more
neighborliness between the north At
lantic and the south Pacific, one need
not cary an umbrella except to keep
off the sun.
In Peru, on the sea side of the
Andes, they build out of mud what
seem to be magnificent palaces and
clapboard effects are popular also,
though wood is worth Its weight in
gold. Stucco, a paint brush and a
lively fancy serve for this stagey deco
ration, but there is not even a pre
tense of cultivating laws, though that
might be Indulged, too, with the help
of a pot of green paint. Rain enough '
would .not fall in a generation to wash |
the green off the, front yard or the :
patio.
That stretch of coast is one of the j
most remarkable of all nature’s dem- i
onstratlons of waterless desolation. It ;
is an elongated Sahara. From Co- I
quimbo, one-Jhird of the length of j
Chile below the Peruvian border, to
Guayaquil, In Ecuador, vegetation is
unknown. An agreeable effect is to
relieve the equatorial heat along the
coast and the slope of the Andes of
humidity.
Had Her Plans Laid Out
One day, shortly after George M.
Cohan began a recent engagement in
Chicago, and before the attaches of
the theater that bears hie name there
had become used to seeing him at
close range, the famous author-actor
encountered an old colored woman
industriously scrubbing the marble
floor of the foyer, chanting the while
a doleful dirge-like air.
“Auntie," commented the comedian,
“that’s a mournful tune you’re sing
ing.”
"Yas, sir,” she answered, "I
knows it's mo’nfui, but by Hingin’ dat
chune an’ mindin' ma own business I
spects to git to heaben.”
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GEORGIA.
PROCEEDINGS OF
THE LEGISLATURE
1 SUFFRAGETTES STILL FIGHTING.
The house finds itself in an embar
rassing dilemma in connection with
the request of the Georgia Woman's
1 Suffrage association for permission to
use the hall of representatives for
their convention.
The request was first made to the
senate, for the senate cliamber, and
the senate turned it down. For the
house to grant the request would be
possibly taken as a criticism of the
action of their seniors in the other
side of the capitol, or at least an up
setting of the precedent established
by the latter.
On the other hand the request ot
the association will be difficult to
refuse, for since the senate turned
it down, many newspapers and state
officials who are not in favor of wom
an suffrage have expressed the view
that common courtesy ought to be
extended to the suffragists by grant
ing their request. Yet there are leg
islators who sincerely feel that it
would be unwise to grant it, as the
granting might be construed into an
endorsement of woman suffrage.
MANY IMPORTANT MEASURES.
After a strenuous week, replete with
the introduction of measurese that will
mean “fight” later in the session, the
1913 legislature spent the Fourth of
July at home.
During the first ten days of the
sessions many general measures of vi
tal state-wide interest have been in
troduced. Among those still to come
is a plan to redistrict the state in
away that will give the assembly fif
teen more senators. The plan pro
poses to make Fulton, Chatham, Bibb
and Richmond each a separate sena
torial district.
The compulsory education bill now
before the assembly has been stripped
ot its more drastic measures, and is
said to stand in a better way to pass
than any similar previous measure.
The bill is without the usual strin
gent provisions requiring school at
tendance.
The bill provides for compulsory at
tendance for not less than twelve
weeks out of each year for children
between eight and twelve. Children
under fourteen must attend
In connection with the compulsory
education measure, it is an Interesting
fact that a fight is on In the house
for cheaper books, through a plan for
state supervision of the texts.
The National Child Labor associa
tion, dissatisfied with the provisions
of the Sheppard child labor bill, will
make a fight against its adoption.
CHEAPER SCHOOL BOOKS.
Representaive Barry Wright of
Rome lias joined forces with Repre
sentative McCrory of Schley in urging
upon the legislature the advisability
of providing cheaper school books for
the use of children in the public
schools of Georgia.
Mr. Wright will advocate the meas
ure on the floor of the house, and it
is believed that his eloquent presen
tation of the situation will gain for
the measure a most careful and seri
ous consideration.
The plan, briefly stated, provides
for state supervision of the printing
of the books. Messrs. McCrory and
Wirght explain that the plan contem
plates the beginning in Georgia with
th eelementary books such as prim
ers, readers and arithmetics. It is not
intended to endeavor to revolutionize
Georgia’s school book situation in a
year or two, but to bring about a
gradual and practical economy.
The present session ot the legisla
ture will be asked to appoint a spe
cial committee to summon witnesses
and go to the bottom of the school
I book situation.
GIVEN HONORARY SEATS.
The unseating of the representatives
j from the new counties of Wheeler and
; and Bleckley on technical constitu
■ tional grounds, in spite of the fact
j that their title to the seats in com
: mon sense was admitted, is being used
as a logical argument to urge the ne
cessity of calling a constitutional con
vention to amend Georgia’s constitu
tion and bring it up to date.
The resolution providing for the
calling of such a convention, introduc
ed by Representative Grover Edmond
son of Brooks is attracting wide at
tention, and is one of the important
subjects of discussion among the
members. Many have already promis
ed it their active support. The two
gentlemen whom the constitution un
seated were given honorary seats on
the floor of the assembly.
MEMBERS REFUSED SEATS.
Atlanta. —After a spirited debate
that occupied practically the entire
session the Georgia house of represen
tative, by a vote of 135 to 37, declined
to give seats to Leo Browning and
Douglas McArthur, who had been
elected to represent the new counties
Bleckley and Wheeler, respectively.
CAPITAL CITY NOTES
Atlanta. —The cocine fiends of At
lanta of whom there are hundreds and
possibly thousands among the ne
groes and poorer classes of white peo
-1 pie are much disturbed over the prob
ability of having the drug that is
■ the mainstay of their existence taken
■ away from them.
Up to now it has always been easy
। to buy cocaine in Atlanta from “dope
1 peddlers” on Decatur street who ply
' their trade despite the vigilance of
the detectives. But now it is report
-1 ed that the supply of cocaine is to
be cut off at its source. The United
! States government has taken a hand.
1 Henceforth the government will keep
1 a record of every ounce of cocaine
that is brought into this country
with a sworn statement from the pur
chaser as to the uses to which it is
to be put.
The army of cocaine victims scat
-1 tered over the United States is esti
-1 mated at upwards of half a million.
' The habit has claimed a large per
■ cent, of victims among the negroes
of the south. The amount used an
-1 nually by the cocaine fiends is said to
■ run up to two hundred thousand
■ ounces or more.
1 Atlanta. —Reports that rival the de-
scription in Moore's famous “Utopia”
are coming back from the recently es
tablished “summer camp” of the girls
of the Southern Belle Telephone com
pany.
More than 500 hello girls, clerks,
stenographers and bookkeepers are
spending their summer vacation in
the woods. The girls are eag%i»
enthusiastic over it, and the telephone
company has donated the equipment,
costing over one thousand dollars.
The camp will be open until late in
September, and practically all .the
young women employees of the com
pany will have the privilege of spend
ing their vacation there if they want
to. The girls already there are en
joying themselves to the utmost. The
carnp is right out in the woods on a
beautiful 290-acre tract on the Brown
Mill road.
Atlanta. —While not disposed to
charge outright that prety Mrs. Lucy
Ballue is lying when she says it was
purely by accident that she shot Capt.
A. C. Thompson at a case of the
Owls’ club, the detectives are satis
fied that there is some unexplained
mystery behind the shooting, and are
still at work on the case.
Captain Thompson, who first, simply
declared that the woman shot him,
lias made an additional statement cor
roborating her declaration that the
whole thing was accidental, caused by
the dropping of the pistol from his
coat pocket.
It has developed that there were
several other members of the club
present when the shooting occurred,
and every effort will be made to se
cure their evidence.
In the meantime, Mrs. Ballue is out
on bond.
Atlanta.—ls Governor Slaton takes
the view of the McNaughton case that
Governor Brown is said to have tak
en, it is probable that Dr. W. J. Mc-
Naughton will never hang.
Governor Brown respited McNaugh
ton time after time for the reason, it
was stated, that he did not think that
McNaughton should be executed un
-1 til Mrs. Flanders, husband of the
: murdered man, and accused of being
1 an accomplice in the murder, was also
brought to trial.
It is now certain that Mrs. Flan
ders will never be brought to trial,
' as there is not sufficient evidence on
1 which to base an attempt to prove
• her guilty. McNaughton was convict
' ed on evidence which tended to show
that he and Mrs. Flanders had com
mitted the crime together.
Atlanta. —Gllly the Gopher is go
ing to become a member of Atlanta’s
city council—possibly. Gilly in real
life is Lewis (pronounced Looie)
Gregg, popular cartoonist of the Con
stitution, and Lewis’ friends have
about persuaded him to run for of
fice.
It is suggested that Lewis could
wield great influence if he did get
a seat in the city hall. One of his
specialties is caricatures, and among
the present ranks in council there are
so many faces that would lend them
selves kindly to such picturesque
treatment that Gregg could probably
frighten them into voting his way on
any subject by drawing their pic
tures and promising “not to publish
them” if they supported his meas
ures.
Atlanta.—A measure that may revo
lutionize the present shipping and ex
port of cotton in bales, is being dis
cussed by the Georgia Bankers’ asso
ciation in a circular sent out to the
farmers, ginners, cotton seed oil men,
cotton exporters and compressers of
this state.
It calls attention to the resolution
recently passed at a meeting of the
steamship companies and railroad
lines. Under these resolutions the
railroad agents are instructed to note
on all bales when they receive them.
For Galled Horses.
When your horse is galled, apply
. Hanford’s Balsam of Myrrh and you
I can keep on working. Try it and if
your horse is not cured quicker than
. by any other remedy, the dealer will
. refund your money. Adv.
i *
The man who cannot write often
makes his mark in the world.
The Bent Hot Weather Tonic
' GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC enriches
ths blood and builds up the whole system,
, and It will wonderfully strengthen and for
tify you to withstand the depressing effect
of the hot summer. 60c.
In times of peace tho wise married
men prepare for the curtain lecture.
To remove soreness use Hanford’s
Balsam. Adv.
Ever Think of This?
“Why don’t women dress sensibly?”
“If they did, half the industries of
the world would go to smash.”
FOR HEADACHE, NEURALGIA AND
PAINFUL PERIODS
of Women use Lotus Flower Compound.
Relieves promptly, contains no habit forming
drugs. Tablet form at druggists or by mall Zbo.
Lotus Flower Co., Atlanta, Ga. Adv.
There are always two sides to a
question—the wrong side and our side.
Keep Hanford’s Balsam In your
home. Adv.
A lock that should never be bolted
is wedlock.
For poisoned wounds use Hanford's
Balsam of Myrrh. Adv.
Resented.
“Did you get a fright when you
were married?”
"Sir, do you mean to insult my
wife?”
Really First Sunday School.
It is often stated that Robert
Railkes was the founder of the first
Sunday school at Gloucester, England,
in 1780. The fact is that the first
Sunday school was established by
Ludwig Hoecker in 1740 at Ephrata,
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. This
was forty years before the work of
Mr. Raikes. Mr. Hoecker's school was
for the religious instruction of the
children of the neighborhood. Among
other methods employed he wrote
Bible verses upon cards, which the
children committed to memory. Later
he had the cards printed. Mr. Hoecker
died in 1792, after a long and useful
career.—Christian Herald.
John Sent a Proxy.
We are having such a carnival of
crime in Cleveland nowadays (accord
ing to certain papers) that a lady
daren't go to the door to meet the
postman unless she is armed to the
teeth. It is told of a Lakewood wom
an that she heard a slight noise, or
thought she did, the other night and
said to her husband:
“Oh, John! There are burglars in
the house!”
■ "Well, see what they want,” grunt
ed John, only half awake.
"But you must go down!”
"No, you go down. No gentlemanly
burglar would dare strike a lady!”
Their Place.
“Where are your master’s spats?”
“You'll gin’rally find ’em where the
missus is, sir.”
It may be difficult to convince a
man that it is really heaven if he
finds any of his wife’s relations
there.
CUBS’ FOOD
They Thrive on Grape-Nuts.
Healthy babies don’t cry and the
well-nourished baby that is fed on
Grape-Nuts is never a crying baby.
Many babies who cannot take any
other food relish the perfect food,
Grape-Nuts, and get well. .
"My baby was given up by three
doctors who said that the condensed
milk on which I had fed her had
ruined the child’s stomach. One of
the doctors told me that the only
thing to do would be to try Grape-
Nuts, so I got some and prepared it as
follows: I soaked tablespoonfuls
in one pint of cold water for half an
hour, then I strained off th'e liquid and
mixed 12 teaspoonfuls of this strained
Grape-Nuts juice with six teaspoonfuls
of rich milk, put in a pinch of salt and
a little sugar,'warmed it and gave It
to baby every two hours.
“In this simple, easy way I saved
baby's life and have built her up to- a
strong, healthy child, rosy and laugh
ing. The food must certainly be per
fect to have such a wonderful effect
as this. I can truthfully say I think
it is the best food in the world to
raise delicate babies on and is also a
delicious healthful food for grown-ups
as we have discovered in our family.”
Grape-Nuts is equally valuable to the
strong, healthy man or woman. It
stands for the true theory of health.
“There’s a reason,” and it is explained
in the little book, "The Road to Well
ville,” in pkgs.
Bver read the above letter? A new
one upnenra from time to time. They
■re genuine, true, mid full of human
la tercet.