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The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-30

With winter coming on and the
crops safely harvested and slowed
away many young men of the farms
will be casting longing eyes toward
the great cities,
Thcg would leave the green fields
and their pleasures and seek the
glare of the electric lights and the al
lurements of the great white way.
They would taste of the greater
life.
And herein turks the most haunt
ing peril chat eonfronts our country
today. fur the nation is dependent
upon the farmer.
Our population is increasing by
leaps and bounds, and millions of adj
ditional mouths must be fed each
year
Prom the soil of the farms must
come the produce which sustains life
and body for the countless thousands
who throng the cities.
And year by year young men of the
country are leaving the farms to seek
then fortunes in the human bee hives,
And each one who forsakes the
farm reduces the producing capacity
IF the country. although our constant
! " increasing population calls for
K eater farm production.
Young men Of brains are needed
on me farm Their presence there
means much to their ecuntry-a thou
sand times more than they realize,
The city offers but one chance in
q hundred for success, for every large
ci;r is already over populated, and
+ ior every job worth the having there
are many applicants
Today every city in the country is
g,oaninS under the burden of its un
employed Many hundreds of thou
sands If people are without bread
ana wnolly dependent upon charity
Thar Sc yba eonE{tiop ne tho rraai
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-30
Young men of wisdom should stick
TO the farm.
Fools have no wisdom to lose
A Song OF Gladness.


The Manufacturers Record is turn
ing out some excellent matter on the
subject OF the war in its relation to
this country. The News recently
printed one of its song editorials on
the subject and it now finds, in the
latest issue a beautifully arti-
Gle full Of inspiration 10 the American
people It is headed Sing Song
Of Gladness," AMI reads:
Have you tried to measure the
depth of Europe's woe?
Have you looked beyond the glare
and glitter and pomp Of marching ar
mics to the horrors of battlefields
which make all of Dante's magma
tons Of the inferno seem tame and
commonplace?
Have you opened your soul to a
study of what it means to have 500,-
100000 people in an agony of sus-
pense Of suffering, Of aching and
breaking hearts for eyry shell fired,
though it miss its mark, yet strikes
some woman's or child's heart?
Have you thought that never in
history was there such an awful
weight upon so many millions of peo-
pie and that never before did angels
Of Heaven look down upon so much
human suffering. physical and men
tai. as now?
Have you thought of the millions
and millions who in their homes will
suffer in deepest poverty, and who
this winter will know more Of famine
and of starvation than the world has
ever known before, while husbands
and fathers and brothers and sweet
hearts will day fater day, be among
the killers or the killed?
And as you think of these things,
is not your heart SO full of gratitude
for the blessings enjoyed by you and
every man, woman and child who has
the privilege of living in this country
that there is no room left in your soul
for worrying over the petty things
that confront us in business
Sing a song of joy and gladness-a
song of Thanksgiving every hour of
your life. Make the best Of the situa-
ton even though you may have real
burdens to carry ana the clouds will
pass away ere you know it.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-30


House Democrats are after the
scalp of Congressman Claud Kitchen,
leader of the majority in that body
They cannot very well be blamed
Kitchen made . very bad break in
has determination to fight the adam.
istration on its policy OF preparedness,
At a time when the party is being
tried and in a serious state of the ma
ton, a man is a poor soldier who re.
fuses TO follow his leader. II is also
to be hoped that the senate will Ike.
wise take a swipe at Senator Clark 81
Arkansas. They are weak-kneee
brothers and have no business ia
places of leadership in the councils 0.
the party.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-30
The inequality OF the Burden!


1t is becoming quite evident that
the man with the fixed income, the
salaried man and the man who has
investments aud the man who works
for wages, IS the man who will ulti-
mately pay the freight for this war,
at least so fai ~ this country is con
oerned.
With the demand for food products
that has aheady manifested itself
and which will increase as the con
aict goes on, the grower, the farmer
will receive a large price for his prod
sets and will be enabled to make
more Of a profit from the sale than
ne has been able to do before.
The man who. makes things, the
manufacturer, will soon feel the ris-
ing demand for manufactured prod
ucts and his profits are also well as
sured.
In those professions which do not
rely on a stated income for compen
sation, charges can be made that will
recompense for the ADDED cost of all
products arising from the war.
TO illustrate just how the small sal
aired man and the working man will
pay the freight, take that one item Of
gasoline. A tax of one cent per gal
Ion is now proposed. The first effect
of the tax will be to raise the cost of
the fluid just that much at the refin-
cries. With the usual raises it will
be passed on down to the gentleman
now known as the ultimate consum-
err. lie pays all the freight on that
one article eventually.
Or take the automobiles The tax
that is imposed ON the manufactures
will be added to the factory price of
the car. This is passed on to the pur'
chaser, of course. who must eventual
ly pay for the whole machine by the
profits on his profession, labor or
merchandise, which the ultimate con
sumner finally pays And so going
through the rather long list It will be
found that the added cost of it
all win be saddled on the small in
come man, who pays the freight in
this country in money, and who in
the warning countries pays the
freight in blood pain and poverty.
We do not yet lay our burdens
equitably The poor and the aver
age people of the country still have
to support the government and con
tribute OF foreign wars.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-30

'Take the boys out of the trenches
for Christmas" is the almost divince
message that Henry Ford is carrying
to Europe from the people of Amer
lea. Mr.. Ford has chartered n steam.
err for this trip, is TO sail December s
and will carry strong delegation
of American peace advocates with him,
May the blessings OF Heaven attend
this splendid pilgrimage
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-30

The organization of the sixty-fourth
congress began yesterday when the
Democrats Of both house and senate
caucused to agree on house and senate
leaders, committees. etc. The regular
session convenes Monday and it prom
Uses TO be full of real interest
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-30

The News introduces Mike the Mes.
senger" in cartoon to its readers this
morning and the feature will be re-
tanned IL the people take a fancy to it,.
A little joke occasionally is relished by
most of us and we hope the new fea.
ture' will prove TO be an interesting
one.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-30

New Jersey comes to the front with
another wholesale killing, A farm
house is raided and the entire family
is butchered by a discharged laborer.
What pity we have those sort of folk
all over the country and yet how un-
Just il would be to blame the thou
sands OF good people OF New Jersey
for the work of this one fiend!
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-30

Jack Johnson, former prize fighter,
has enlisted in the English army &C
cording to London advices. Unless he
differs considerably from most other
negroes, he ought to make a splendid
cook.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-30

The speed mania has levied very
severe death toll in Georgia within
the past week and not less than one
dozen lives have been yielded up to
this foolish craze Is there no way
for men to be happy driving an auto
mobile AZ a safe ard sane speed?
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-30

Representative Brown of Wheeler
county says he would not kidnap a
child Well, the great trouble with
the Georgia solon seems to be that he
did kidnap large quantities of other
Things more noisy than children.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-30

The taxpayers and the citizens of
Brunswick In a very large majority
feel that the city ought to take over
the Brunswick white way and restore
the service. Is there any higher au-
thority in the municipality than this +?
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-30

Tom Watson is getting some more
free advertising at the cost of the
public and he is therefore happy
What great pity he could not be
tried as seriously and as solemnly as
he has tried the decency of the people
of Georgia.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-30

Hetty Green is against woman suf-
trage. But we all understand Hetty.
She is afraid that she would have to
pay some additional taxes if she votes.
.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-30

ton, constipation and stomach trou-
bles.
Get bottle of DR.. Caldwell's Syrup
Pepsin from your druggist and keep
it in the house. A trial bottle, free
Of charge, can be obtained by writing
to Dr. w. B. Caldwell, asa Washington
St, Monticello, Ill.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-30

Greece has a very cute little way Of
playing hide and seek with the allies.
However her game is dangerous one
and time may yet convince her of that
fact.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-30

II must be confessed that Emperor
Yoshito Of Japan has had one real
week OF festivities.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-30

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-20
SMALL DEBTS

From the Tuscaloosa News.
 TIT is a fine thing to be generous, but
 it is a finer one to be just.
 Many people who would unhesitat- ingly contribute dollar, or five or ten of them, to relieve a case of destitution, are careless and neglectful about paying the small bills they incur Accustomed to large expenditures and to paying bills by check they are either "short" or care less about having change in hand
 A dollar and quarter for the laundress; s1.75 for the seamstress; 45 cents for the laundry" nuisancel' they maven t the change;'' wait till next week. or ''call again.
 This is an injustice to the laborer who is worthy of his hire-her hire, since the chief sufferers are women, as also the chief delinquents. It is often double injustice Their earnings, on which they depend for support, are held back te their great inconvenience. If they have to 'call again it takes their time and to the poor, time is literally money.
 The great body of women who Ego ou' by the day. earn small wages. Few of them are fortunate enough to carr over s10 a week, the great mass are prop ably limited to $6 or s7. possibly sS, even I they have employment for every day Many of theri-in fact the large majority have children to support. The hop' of the poor is their children. How els'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-20
The Seasonable Weather

We have had high temperature and fine rains in this beautiful month of May, and all vegetation hereabouts is well advanced. For the growing crops the weather has been nothing short of ideal and if nature continues kind Alabama will have bumper har- vests this year.
 The hot May weather is also ideal for the school and college commence ments. Commencement would not seem just right without summer heat. A cool, chilly spell during commence ment exercises would be most depress- ing.
 Hot weather is sometimes enervat- ing. It is usually so during "the dog days" but in the early flush of sum- mer everybody in the southland revels in the rays of Old Sol when the ther- mometer registers S5 or 90 in the shade. At any rate we should all re- joice with the farmer in this fins
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-20
Regarding the National Defense

The United States navy is not a poor navy, but it should be better and in time it will be made larger and stronger.
 This country needs a great navy. Within the next few years it will need it more than ever; need it in the in terest of peace as well as for battle in the event of war.
 The United States may not be drawn into the present European war. Our relations with Germany may re- main peaceful. That depends upon Germany's answer to the American note. But the present situation is grave enough to stress this country s need of a higher degree of pre- paredness.
 In the little war with Spain the United States was markedly unpre- pared, and had we been attacking a first class power hostilities would have been long ontinued-continued at any rate until this country had time to drill vast army. As it was, our unpreparedness cost the govern ment millions of dollars.
 The United States is not so poorly prepared for war as it was in 1898, but comparatively speaking our un- preparedness is seriously in evidence.
 The peace propaganda will make progress. All humane people should support any movement seeking to minimize the possibilities of war; but the peace-at-any-pric advocates will make little impression upon patriotic Americans.
 What this country will need is a high class navy, a regular army twice as large as it is now and thoroughly disciplined National Guard of 500, 1000 men instead of 120,000 as at present. The war college at Washington has been working on plans for an increase and complete reorganization of the army. Secretary of War Garrison is very much in earnest in pressing his contention for a definite military policy. He is no alarmist but he has pointed out the need of larger army and he will probably be able to in duce Congress to adopt his recom- mendations next winter.
 ] The public must demand that some thing be done to strengthen our na- tional defense.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-20
No Friend to Cupid

Fathers have long been deeply inn bued with the idea that it was their inalienable right to set the house dog upon unwelcome suitors for the hand of the winsome daughter. In extreme cases fathers have taken the law into their own hands, so to speak, and have famed the coat tails of the departing suitor with birdshot.
 This privilege, however, has been regarded as prerogative scarcely recognized by the law of the land. But in Oregon, at least, the father may vent his disapprobation in the foregoing manner without fear of punishment.
 In Woodburn, Ore, the grand jury refused. to indict Charles Johnson, l charged with assault with a dangerous weapon with intent to kill, because he bombarded with shotgun at the re- treating posterior region of suitor who persisted in calling on his daugh- ter after it had been intimated that these calls were unwelcome-to the girls father.
 After this legal decision, it would appear that the lovelorn swain must resort to Young Lochinvar methods, provide himself with reinforced ar nor, or else make use of periscope for the detection of the approach of the enemy from rear positions.
 Modern ideas apparently have con- tributed but little toward smoothing the path of true love.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-20
WAR ECHOES

St Louis Post Dispatch: There never was better example of the rapid crys- talization of public sentiment in sound conclusion covering public issue than tbnt which followed the publication or the Presidents s note to Germany.
 Before the substance of the note was given out there was chaos or contuseo thought and a babel of voices. The jngo shrieked and the peace-at-any-prlce aoVo-
 cates howled The various groups of bvohenated citizens rushed to extremes nro and con. flood of differing coun- sells poured into Washington and over flowed into the newspapers
 When the President spoke chaos van isbeC and babel ceased, He defined the American case so judiciously. clearly, con- vincingly in such strong but reasonable terms that the great mass of the people saw the light and realized the fairness of his article and the logic of his con-
 clusion. With the exception of few ir-
 reconciliable hyphens and chronic critics
 there was swift accord in support of the governments position. There is prac. tical American unity in these points, 1. The enforcement of American rights the rights of neutrals on the sea. 2 The safeguarding of American ships neutral ships-and of the lives and prop erty of Americans-neutrals on all mer. chant ships.
 3. The observance of international law and agreements and of civilized usage 1T the treatment of Americans-all neutrals- in sea warfare-and the elimination ol
 modes of warfare which are necessarily illegal and inhuman. f. The attainment of these ends b, peaceful means if possible; but at any cost if needful.
 Americans stand united and firm on this solid ground of right. reason and hu' manity. They await the outcome with calm con fidence
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-20

From the Kansas City Star l"O a man now living in Kansas City belongs the honor, if honor it is, of creating slang phrase-or rather two popular idioms Everybody has used, or heard, the we'll worn expres- sion. "Put on the soft, soft pedal But | everyone does not know that the pat phra SC, after chance birth, was pushed with deliberate intent to scatter it broad cast over the country.
 Put on the soft. soft pedal' is Seat tle product. Two brothers were walking down First avenue eight years ago. One used a bit of slang.
 | "T wonder" said the other. how slang atarts-whether it is accidental or ,nanu- factured?'
 The first thought 1t was pure accident.
 "Still," he added. If a fellow did happen on pat phrase that was new, believe II could be pushed
 1 If happened that the brothers had a
 musical friend who often made effective play with the soft pedal on his piano. II
 was a memory of this effect that caused the older brother to reply to oit oi dattery that evening, "Oh, put or the I
 soft pedal on that
 I As they left the fatterer and walked m down the street the older brother re-
 marked. .That is the way slang starts. I And I shouldn't be surprised if could make that go. Come on. let's try.
 The pair entered a cafe where men they knew congregated. Deliberately. the coiner of the phrase led the conversation
 up to an opening for his new slang. Then he deftly inserted his Put or the soft medal" Again, with another group he worked his phrase. A third time his ''soft pedal' parried bit of banter It was a place in which there was apt to be much dra wing of the long bow and the au- thor of the new expression could hardly have found a more fertile ffeid in which
 to plant it.
 Before he left the cafe he had the satis- faction of hearing two other men use the new expression. It was on it's way. In two weeks it had travelled the streets of Seattle and not day passed that the Two years later. the author of the
 phrase was in Norfolk. Va. At vaude-
 vile show he was surprised and amused brothers did not hear 1t. Every train
 was taking the new slang out of town. to hear a brand new song entitled, Put on the Soft, Soft Pedal" The bit of
 slang had travelled from the Pacific to the Atlantic. the north to the south He heard it almost as often as he had in
 Seattle.
 Encouraged by his success. the same
 young man resolved to push another slang phrase of his own ma king OhaarvfnR a girl one day walking on the street in Butte and noticing that she was very much bedecled, he had said to a com
 panion: She's all fixed up like a circus
 horse
 Deliberately he pushed the phrase al
 he had the other. It has not become so common as the first, but 1t has found it's way Into an extra1rdinary number
 Of Dhort stories- In 1ant week's toepe ol
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-20

can they escape the county house in | belplessness or old age? It ie to their interest to educate the children as well . they can that their earning capacity ,nay be increased.
 Out of their meager earnings hundreds of women, right in our own city, are paying rent, buying fuel and feeding and clothing two or three or more. children. When one considers how heart-breakingly easy it is to get rid of a S5 bill these days, and how little one seems to get out of it, one wonders how on earth they manage to coax both ends within sight of each other, let alone making them meet. It is so manifestly unjust not 10 pay promptly and in full that one won- ders how anybody can fail to do so.
 ''The sum is so small it cannot make any difference" says one. But. small as it is, it bears as important a relation to the poor womans earnings as a sun, 20 or 40 times as much does to the em- ployer's income. and its loss or. delay IS more keenly felt because the poor do not, as rule, have credit. The plan of the woman who makes it a rule to lay aside out of the first change she handles the wages of her launAress. | and to put it where the maid can~get it ill case the mistress is out, is heartily to be commended.
 l So much needless inconvenience, even l suffering, is caused by want of thought in this matter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-20
What Italy Wants

The antiwar party of Italy claims that if Italy enters the European war, which is expected to last at least sew eral months longer-until next win ter-it will mean the loss of about half a million men and financial ex penditure of S500,0 ,00O. They say Italy cannot afford war on these terms, but those who advocate join ing the allies against Germany and Austria, composing majority of the population, declare that Italy has so much to gain she cannot afford to re- main neutral
 At present Germany has more than 100000 men mobilized and fully equipped The highest estimate of casualties being about 40 per cent, and the population 37,OOO,0O0 with an encouraging birth rate, the loss in men would be inconsiderable, com pared to the number of inhabitants Although it would cost probably not less than $4O0,0OO,OO for Italy to en- ter the war, and she is still paying off the cost of the Tripoi war, the wealth of the country is estimated at about S15, 1000, ,000, ,OO0, of which ? per cent is used to pay national debts and provide for the army and navy, and the country is able to bear a much heavier burden of debt than it has at present without working great hard ship on the population.
 The wealth of Trieste, Trent, Istria and Plume is estimated at about $1,- 000, ,000, ,000, which would revert to Italy if she aided the allies and they were victorious. After these prov inces became Italian and the national system of taxation was applied they would yield something like $20, 0,000,- 900 year and would be great hell in paying whatever cost to acquire them. Furthermore, the possession o1 these provinces would make Italy mis tress of the Adriatic and open nev economic era for the country. Alsc there is the patriotic desire of Ital ians to see their countrymen on th' eastern shores of the Adriatic re heved of Austria's domination.
 If Italy continues to hesitate unti the war is ended, she will have savet her soldiers and large sum oi money, at the expense of her future Under these conditions it is small wonder that majority of Italians are enthusiastically in favor of war.