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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16
ADVISES THOSE SUBJECT a.,
TO NEXT CALL TO ENLIST
Capt. Heidi Issues Statement
Following Announcement
of Second Selection

Following the announcement in the
newspapers that the next call for select
men may be made in December or jan
uary, Captain q. V. Heidi, of the United
States army recruiting service. Satur-
day urged all Georgia men who are la
BILE for service to enlist in the army at
once so they could choose the branch
for which they have the most liking.
IF the second call is made in Decem-
Der or January" said Captain Heidi 1t
means that the actual selection viii be
made as or 60 days earlier. as was the
case during the first call. Men who are
likely to be called should enlist before
hand; they have nothing to lose except
a little time from their employment and
that would be a help for them in the
army. The following branches are open
in the army: Infantry, cavalry, field ar
tillery, regular army and national
guard. quartermaster's corps, aviation
section of the signal corps, the signal
corps proper, engineers and the remount
service.
a volunteer has the right to choose
what branch he would prefer to serve
in. while selected man has TO go where
the government chooses to assign him
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16
SOLDIERS WILL FREEZE
IF CLOTHING ISN'T GIVEN
Red Cross Workers Write of
insufficient Apparel for
Men at Front

WASHINGTON. Oct. l2-Freezing
faces the convalescing wounded in
France If American women do not make
the millions of sweaters. mufiiers. socks
and wristlets needed by the Red Cross.
Already the cold raw days are caus-
inE misery, according to official reports
from Red Cross workers near the battle
lines. one wrote the national headqGar
tiers:
You have sent us blankets, bed COW
eIings. sweaters, warm underwear, by
the thousands. but our shelves today
are almost empty.
Every lighting man or convaiescing.
practically. needs a sweater and yet
the dearth of them has become so ser;-
Gus that those ORGANIZATIONS who buy
their supplies here simply cannot get
them. Ours have all been sent out.
zone morning we were allowed to go
10 the Care du Nord to see the soldiers
starting for the front We had with
Us several warm sweaters in case We
saw any without sufficient clothing II
was a cold, raw morning and a good
EIany looked very miserable. We asked
r they had any underwear on and they
showed us their bare chests under thin
cotton shirts. We gave away as many
sweaters as we had The men then
and there threw of their coats and put
them on over their poor thin shirts.
Several members of Pershing's over
sea expedition were with us and when
they saw the men marching to the front
without sweaters-they did what was
to be expected of Americans. In less
me than il takes to tell it several or
the men had skinned out of their sweat
erS and were assisting the Frenchmen
tC don them. 1t was touching to see
their gratitude.
"AIl the men whom we saw going
lad been to the front and were in Paris
on leave or going back from the hos
pital. Some of them looked hardly Mt
to go. They were not gay, but they
were not downcast; they were just quiet
and looked like men going to a serious
task.
Outside the barrier were many heart
bI eaking scenes of parting from the
wives and children. but once inside the
line they dried their tears and came
forward with calm to where we wers
standing to receive their little gifts
and the last cup of coffee before getting
into the train"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16
CAMP GORDON DEsERTER
Gets 10 YEARS IN PEN
Brennon Advanced "Thou
Shalt Not Kill" as Argu-
ment Against War
BY WARD nnoREHoUsE.

ATLANTA JOURNAL BUREAU.
CAMP GORDON, Ga. Oct. 15.-Otto X
Brennan, Camp Gordon selectman who
deserted September Z and was captured
ten days later will serve ten years al
hard labor in the Atlanta federal peni
tertiary, this sentence having been ap-
proved Saturday. The courtmartial
which heard his case recommended tina,
he be dishonorably discharged from the
military service, FORGETTING all pay al
lowances due or to become due, and to be
confined at hard labor for the rest of his
natural life at such place as the review
ing authority might designate. The re-
viewing authority, however, decided to
modify the sentence and determined
upon ten years at the Atlanta peniten-
tiary
Brennan is a farmer twenty-three
years old, who resides near Ashport,
Tenn. He set up the plea that while
he is guilty of desertion. his con-
science did not permit him to engage in
war. He quoted scripture to sustain
his points. Thou shalt not kill was
his favorite passage. He contended that
this meant clearly that war is wrong.
The charge of desertion against four
negroes and one white selectmen were
Saturday ordered set aside as having
been enormously made.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16
SENATOR LAFOLLETTE WILL
Be TRIED NEXT TUESDAY
Committee Wants Proof of His
Statement About LuSitania
and Munitions

WASHINGTON, Oct. Ex-senator La
Toilette goes on trial Tuesday to de-
termine his fitness to continue in the
councils of the nation
Members of the investigating COM
mittee stated tonight this is the mean
ing of the hearings on the Wisconsin
senator's st. Paul speech. The first
clash is expected on this issue. The
committee will try to test La Follette's
fitness 10 remain in the senate by exam
lining his general attitude toward Amer
ica's entrance into the war and its sub
sequent policies.
Chairman Pomerene said tonight the
committee would also attempt to hold
Senator La Toilette to proof of his
statement in st. Paul that Presiden'
Wilson knew the Lusitania was mum.
tions-laden and carried passengers in
defiance of the law.
Senator La Toilette will demand ~
Tuesdays hearing that the accusations
against him be fixed in the form of an
Indictment and that his trial procee
along lines of a criminal court. If d.
MED this, committeeman expect La Fol-
lette to plead he is being treated unfair
ly and not allowed TO defend himsels.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16
MOTHER! IS CH|LD'S
STOMACH SOUR, SICK?
If cross, feveriSh, cOnStipated,
give ''CaIifOrnia Syrup
of FiqS"

Don't scold your fretful, peevish child
See If tongue is coated; this is sure
sign its little stomach, liver and bowels
are clogged with sour waste.
When listless, pale, feverish, full or
cold, breath bad, throat sore, doesn't
eat. sleep or act naturally, has stomach
ache. indigestion, diarrhoea, give tea
spoonful of California Syrup Of Figs"
and in a few hours all the foul waste,
the sour bile and fermenting food passes
out of the bow0is and you have a well
and playful child again. Children love
this harmless fruit laxative" and
mothers can rest easy after giving it..
because it never fails to make their
little 'inS4des'' clean and sweet
Keep it handy. Mother! A little given
today saves a sick child tomorrow, but
get the genuine. Ask your druggist for
a bottle of California Syrup Of Figs"
which has directions for babies, children
of all ages and for grown-ups plainly on
the bottle. Remember there are counter
feits sold here, so surely look and see
that yours is made by the California.
Fig Syrup Company" Hand back with
contempt any other fig syrup.-(Advt)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16
Surplus Farm Products
Cared for at Royston

ROYSTON. Ca, Oct. 1S.-The state
market bureau sent it's field man, d.
Alex +. Reese to Royston this week I.
investigate conditions for marketing tn
surplus farm products of this section
He was much surprised and espresso
great satisfaction in finding that Roy
ston is wide awake on this matter an
already had taken steps to solve tn
problem.
Citizens have formed a stock compan!
known as the Royston Feed and Milling
company. This has in operation
grist mill and flour mill and has JUS
bought and installed a feed mill 70
grinding the entire corn stalk with it
fodder. corn. shuck. cob and velvet
beans into a balanced feed for stock anC
cattle
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16
Great Stores of Grain
Consigned to the Allies
Are Destroyed by Fire

NEW YORK. Oct 1s.-More than a
million bushels of wheat. barley and
oats consigned to the allies were con-
sumed by flames or destroyed by water
today when the huge grain elevators of
the Dow stores, in Brooklyn, were
burned together with a number of other
storehouses The estimated damage was
placed at s1.2OO,0o0 The fire was
thought at first to have been caused by
a bomb exposition, but this theory was
later discarded and 1T was said the ex-
plosion in the grain was due to a short
circuit in the electrical wiring.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16
World War Arranged
By Germany in 1914

NEW YORK, Oct. 1S.-Plans for start
ing the world war and definite date
for OPENING hostilities were arranged at
a conference in Berlin, presided over by
the kaiser, early in 1914, Henry l.. Nor
genthau former ambassador to Turkey,
declared today in signed article in the
New York World.
Morgenthau said he received his in
formation from the German ambassador
at Constantinople, Baron Wagenheim.
He learned that Germany's army, naval
and financial chiefs were at the confer
ence. The bankers asked a delay of two
weeks in which to arrange their af-
fairs. When all plans had been made,
the kaiser went on a yachting trip to
allay any possible suspicious.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16
Products Of Southern
War Gardens VIII Be
Shown in New York

NEW YORK, Oct. 13.-The Southern
States Exposition of the Southern Com
mercial congress will open here tonight
with exhibits showing what the south
has been doing since the United States
declared war on Germany. Products
Of the south's war gardens will be dis
played. the results of the modified in
dustries will be shown and ii will be
explained how the south proposes to
aid the government in the conduct OF
the war.
Six bureaus of the department Of COM
merce in Washington will show how
they have been cooperating with the
southern farmers in the conservation
of food and the elimination of waste.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16
WHY WE FIGHT AND
WHAT WE FIGHT FOR
TOLD BY BILL HOWARD
Congressman from Fifth District Delivers Ringing Speech on
"Home Coming at DeKab County Fair-PayS Splendid
Tribute to Woodrow Wilson, Scores German SympathizerS
and DisIOya Press and Declares Farmers Prosperity Is
Due to Americas Entry Into War

LAIN Bill schley Howard home to his own people SATURDAY
When tall
behind the
crowded
fair Saturday
solicitor the from the Fifth Georgia
district
Told him
little
world
had
platform
e 'em abO
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16
CASCARETS FOR
BOWELS, STOMACH.
HEADACHE, COLDS
Clean your liver and conSti-
pated bowels tonight and
feel fine
Get a 1O-cent box now.


Are YOU keeping your liver, stomach
and bowels clean. pure and fresh with
Cascarets-or merely forcing a passage
way every few days with salts. cathar-
tic pills or castor oil? This is impor-
tant
Cascarets Immediately cleanse the
stomach. remove the sour. undigested
and fermenting food and foul gases;
take the excess bile from the liver and
carry out OF the system the consti-
pated waste matter and poison in the
bowels.
No odds how sick. headachy. bilious
and cOnstipated you feel, a Cascaret to-
night will straighten you out by morn
ing. They work while you sleep. a 10
cent box from your druggist will keep
your head clear. stomach sweet and your
liver and bowels regular for months.
Don't forget the children-their little
insides need a gentle cleansing. too
(AdvtD
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16
Wants Kaiser to Win,
And He Loses His Job

ANN ARBOR. Mich. oct. 13.-'I
want 10 see the central powers vic
torious. I wouldn't think of giving one
cent to help the United States so long
as Il is injuring Germany"
This statement is the reason why DR.
Carl Eggert is out of a Job today. H..
was a member of the German facult.
Of the University of Michigan until III.
board Of regents acted against him.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16
Would Give Three Sons
For America, But None
For Germany-McAdoo

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 13.-'I
wouldn't give the life of one of my boys
who are in the army for the whole Ger
man empire, but if it be the will of God
that the lives of all three be taken for
America, 1 bow my head in sacrifice"
That was the way Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo voiced the fighting
shirt of America before an audience of
o 600 when he spoke here on the Liberty
bend issue.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16
White Boy Loses Eye
When Mule Runs Away

ALBANY, Ca. Oct. Henderson
Barfield. a white boy fourteen years old.
of Worth county. lost an eye near AL
bany last night when a country negro's
mule ran away and the wagon tongue
penetrated the side curtain of the auto
mobile in which the boy was coming to
the circus. striking him in the eye The
sight of the eye was destroyed and the
injured member was removed at the
Phoebe Putney Memorial hospital.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16

pound of meat produced by the 6,5O0,00
farmers in the United States.
Today nothing has contributed
more to the enormous prices on the
products of the farm than our abil-
ity to carry on our commerce with
the world in spite of German sub
marine warfare. To our courage, to
our patriotism, you may attribute
SO wheat, 27-cent cotton and 30-cent
meat.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16
Cures His ToothaChe

LONDON. Sept. IS. (By maiL)-ThOm-
as Damn, working in an explosive fac
tory. had the toothache. Nothing seem
ed 10 do him any good He tried smok-
ing. His majestys government fined
him s. and the shock. according to
Damn, stopped the tothache.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16

Captain Ceilings made a study OF
himself Of his conditiOn-and at last he
was rewarded by the finding OF the
method that so quickly made him a well.
strong, vigorous and happy man.
Anyone can use the same method .
it's simple, easy, safe and inexpensive;
Every ruptured person in the world
should have the Captain Ceilings book.
telling all about how he cured himself.
ana how anyone may follow the Same
treatment in their own home without
any trouble. The book and medicine are
FREE. They viii he sent prepaid to
any rupture sufferer who will MI out
the below coupon. But send IL right
away-now-befor you put down this
paper.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16
Kicking Ford Breaks
Rev. Henry B. Mays Arm

MADISON, Ga, Oct. 13.-Rev. Henry
B. Mays, pastor of the Methodist
church here. had his arm broken Friday
while cranking his Ford. Mr.. Mays
served Atlanta churches for the past
twelveyears and is well known in that
city.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16
ALLEGED Stacker Arrested

VALDOSTA. Ga, Oct 13.-Sol Bel
cher and Lunny Miller were arrested in
the Cat Creek district by United States
Marshal Robert Thomas, charged with
being slackers They did not register
on June 5.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16
l2-Year-Old Girl,
Angry, Ends Her Life

CHATTANOOGA. Tenn. Oct. 13.-An-
ma Wilds, aged IL. step-daughter o.
Paul Campbell. a prominent attorney
killed herself following a quarrel wit.
a younger sister today.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16

our farmers being against the selective
draft, 1 will not and cannot believe" he
declared. when you ask me to accept
the statement that the farmers of this
nation are unpatriotic and lukewarm to-
ward their government, you ask me to
obliterate the glorious history of the de-
terrnined, self-sacrigicing, ragged and
bare-footed soldiery composed mostly of
farmers at Valley Forge. You ask me
to obllterate the patriotism and courage
exhibited at Malvern Hill, Spottsylvania
and Gettysburg. When you ask the
farmers of the south to denounce the Sc
lective draft, you ask them to denounce
every old Confederate veteran who took
up arms in defense of our homes and
firesides Ia 1861, as every soldier in
the Confederate army after April 16,
1862, was a craftsman"
He showed where this was true, by
quoting from the speech of Jefferson
Davis, inaugurating the selective draft
for the Confederacy. He showed where
the law did not hurt the farmers half as
much as the volunteer system by point
ing out that before the law was passed
and Immediately following the declara-
ton of war, out of the first one hum
dred young men enrolled at the re-
cruiting office in the city of Atlanta,
seventy-seven of them were farmers
sons.
PROSPERITY OF FARMERS DUE
TO AMERICAS ENTRY INTO WAR.
but may l ask" continued Congress
man Howard eff there is a semblance
Of truth in the statement that the
farmers of the south are opposed to
the selective service law, why should
they be? The cause of our entrance
into this war affected the farmers more
vitality than any other class of citizens
in the union. Let me prove it to you.
In 1914, when the German raiders were
on the high seas and merchant vessels
were being sunk ruthlessly and the cor
porations and individuals who owned
vessels were afraid to permit them to
venture upon the high seas, cotton went
to cents a pound, wheat was selling
freely in our markets at 80 cents a
bushel, and the whole agricultural fab
ric of the nation was undermined If not
practically destroyed.
Suppose we had permitted Germany,
without protest or declaration of war,
to close this zone, what would have been
the effect upon the farmers of the
United States as to their products?
Through this zone so closed, two-thirds
of our export wheat. five-siXths of our
hog products, six-sevenths of our cotton
products and seven-eighthS of our beef
products, passed last year, and it would
have seriously affected the price of ev-
cry pound of cotton, bushel of wheat or
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16
"Gure Your
Rupture Like
Cured Mine"
Old Sea Captain Cured His Own
Rupture After Doctors Said
Operate or Death"
His Remedy and Book Sent Free.

CAPTAIN Ceilings sailed the seas for
many years; then he sustained bad
double rupture that soon forced him to
not only remain ashore, but kept him
bedrfdden for years. He tried doctor
after doctor and truss after truss No
results Finally, he was assured that
ne must either submit TO q dangerous
and abhorrent operation OF die. He did
nsithsrl He cured himself instead
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16

Oppressed Feeling in chest, Choking SEM
sRtiOnin throat, Painful to lie Oh left side,
Sinking or SmOthering Sensations, DIM
cult Breathing, Heart DrOpsy or Swelling
ofIeet or ankIess II you have one or more OF
the above symptoms, don't fail to use DIR. kfns-
nls SAID that one person out of every four has a
weak heart. Probably three-fourths of these do
selves for the Stomach, Lungs, Kidneys or
NerVos. Don't take any chances when DIR.
hInsman's Heart Tablets are within your
reach. More than 1000 endorsements furnished.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16

And Bill did. He got up on the
platform and Charles d. Mckinney
introduced" him to the crowd
not that Bill Schley Howard needed
any introducing to those people
and he told 'em about it for an hour
or more, while sometimes the crowd
forgot to cheer in their intense in
terest in what Bill was saying.
1t was war he talked about, Amer
ica's war, our war, Georgias war. He
went back into a little history and
he showed just how this war came
about, just why it's going on now,
and just why America is going to
forget all other selfish interests to
win this war, why Georgia is going
to do it, and DeKalb county, and his
own people.
He gave it to them straight from
the shoulder, without any fireworks
and flag-waving, without any quib-
bling or braggadociO, but with a
keen insight into the heart of all the
turmoil and trouble, and with a fine
scorn for those who are resentful or
squamish or backward in the hour
of the nations need.
There are only two classes when
you get into war, the patriotic and
the yellow dog" said Bill Schley
Howard. "You are either for your
country or you are against it; there
can be no lukewarmness or indiffer-
ence in war"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16
PRESIDENT WILSON HAS
CLEAR VISION THROUGH FOG.

The crowd cheered that. They cheer
ed again when he said:
God in his infinite wisdom raised
from the midst Of this theater of
horrors that great and Cody man
who presides over the destinies of
the most powerful nation in the
world. Today the faces of the peo-
pies of a stricken world are turned
TO that calm, clear-eyed, generous
hearted, GOd-fearing, big-brained
man, Woodrow Wilson. May / re-
assure you, my fellow citizens, that
the hand upon the wheel of the
ship of state is steady-nerved? He
has a clear vision through the fog
of war, and on the distant shore
his keen ears will be the first to
catch the clear notes of the bell
buoy of peace.
And they stopped TO listen absorbedly
and to nod their heads in confirmation
when Congressman Howard began 70
talk about the farmers and the war.
All of this hullabalOo about many of
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16

,Does It Flutter, PaIpitafe
or Skip Beats Have you
shOrtuess of Breath, Ten
lderness, Mum b n ess, or
Pain In left side, Dizziness,
Painting Spells, spots be.
fore eyes, Sudden Starting
in sleep, N ervO usn ass,
HunRrY or Weak SneIIa
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-06-06
NEGRO IS SHOT; TWO
ARE BEATEN BY MOB
Fifty Citizens of East ST. Louis
Are Dispersed by Militiamen
After Trouble.

East st. Louis, Ill.-One negro
was shot and wounded slightly and
two We're beaten by a mob of fifty
men, who, officials say, gathered in
the outskirts of the city after the sa-
Icons closed at o'clock. The mob
was dispersed by militiamen and To-
cal police.
A heavy rain and the presence of
25O soldiers of the Illinois National
Guard who patrolled the city kept
down the spirit of the persons in
clined to riot. The outbreak early
in the evening was quelled quickly
and was said to have been an iso-
lated occurrence. Fewer persons
were on the street than on Monday
and Tuesday nights.
All of the men injured thus far
are believed to be recovering.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-06-06
d. 900 MENNONITES To KNIT
FOR AMERICAN SOLDIERS

Mcpherson, Kan.-Women of
German descent in Mcpherson coun-
ty are planning to set a record in
making clothing for the jackies Of
the United States Navy. They are
among the best knitters in the state
and will turn the heel and toe fast,
the trick of which many learned in
Germany.
There are in this county 5000
Mennonites. They believe literally
in Thou shalt not kill" They have
sent representatives to Washington
to ask that they not be required to
bear arms.
But they want to show loyalty to
the Government that has given them
religious freedom. They will knit
with a prayer for peace on earth"
Three churches are heading the
movement.