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The Marietta journal and courier., 1917-11-09

sues books and magazines; it pro-
notes outdoor and indoor games,
baseball, volley ball, basket ball,
football, checkers, chess, dominos;
it holds Bible classes and promotes
a strong religious work program. 1t
takes care of these strong, well fight
ing mems spare time in way that
they like and that is good for them.
It is not only school, theater, gym
nasium, church and home, but is
sort of club, as well. 1t is the thing
that keeps him fit mentally, morally,
physically and socially.
And the work is as broad as it is
deep. In the great National Guard,
National Army, Naval-Station, Aerial
Service, Officers Reserve and other
camps, the Association has establish
ed nearly 600 great buildings in this
country manned by five secretaries
each. Each building has 80 differ
ent items on it's list of furnishings.
"a book of twos', please; May /
have some writing paper?"; "Have
you got any wrapping paper?"; "Any
twine?"; "Will you write money
order for me?"; "Can / get testa-
ment here?". These and a thousand
and one other requests are filled, al
ways with smile and word of per-
sonal greeting or encouragement,
and without charge of a cent to
the enlisted man for any of the
things enumerated, excepting of
course for the postage stamps.
This work is to be carried over
seas as fast as the American troops
cross the Atlantic, 1t is to be placed
in the armies of our allies, France,
Russia and Italy,-England already
has it,-and it is to go into the
camps of the prisoners of war. To
do this a great nationwide campaign
is to be waged from November II
to 10 to raise $35,000,000 which will
be needed until July 1, 1918. Not a
cent of this is to be spent on any
body but the fighting men,-the well
ones, which the Red Cross cannot
serve.
The Marietta journal and courier., 1917-11-09

@loss over 1916, $490,250. fLos
These figures do not include Geor-
gia's great harvest of melons, cane
and syrup, garden truck, peanuts,
tobacco and citrus fruits, the hogs
and cattle, nor do they include her
great and valuable crop of cotton
seed and it's by-products, all of which
will add hundreds of millions to the
Georgia farmers buying power.
Prosperity is rampant all ever the
state. Everybody's got work to do
and gets good pay. All the crops
are fine. Business is good. Money
is plentiful.
Listen to this for instance; it is
an extract frwom special dispatch
published in an Atlanta newspaper,
Sept. 26th, from its news correspon-
dent at Bainbridge, Ga.
"Money was never more plentiful
in Decatur county than at present.
Banks are running over with it and
farmers have more money than they
know what to do with. There is less
demand for money than in some time,
as the farmers have too much of
their own to want to borrow and 1T
is beginning to pile up in the banks. "
This condition is typical of all
parts of Georgia. The bank clear
ings in the city of Atlanta in Septem-
Der, 1916, were $91,998,2O2.57; in
September, 1917, they had increased
to $129,734,455.76.
"There will be more money in the
hands of the people this fall than
ever before" says N. G. Bartlett,
secretary Chamber of Commerce of
Dublin, Ga, in a published state
ment
A tenant farmer in Fulton county,
near Atlanta, running small lone
mule" farm for which he pays $140
year rent, cleared $4,000 this year,
besides feeding himself and family.
Imagine, if you can, how much the
average big plantation owners, live
stock raisers and orchardists in Geor-
gia must have added to their bank
account this year.
One of the secrets of this pros
perity is crop diversification. South
ern farmers are getting away from
the risk of a poor cotton crop and
making much more money on other
The Marietta journal and courier., 1917-11-09
$44O,S11,25O
$2O7,495,930
over 1916, $1,72O,O90.

over 1916, 81, 100000.
crops and live stock. Last year
Georgia was the fifth highest state
in the Union on farm products, her
output bringing $298,652,000.
But the Georgia people have other
sources of income besides farm pro-
ducts. Last year they got $2,OOO,-
900 from their clay pits; $2,200,OOO
from their beautiful marble and
granite; $1,5OO,O0O from coal and
iron; $2O,OOO,OOO from lumber;
$25O,O0O,OOO for mill and factory
products; $1,187,352 for oysters and
fish; $7,OOO,OOO for naval stores.
Shipbuilding on gigantic scale
has been added to Georgia's indus
tries. There are extensive yards in
Savannah and Brunswick and ships
built there have already safely steam
ed across the ocean laden with sup
plies for our Allies.
The several army camps and can
tonment at Atlanta, Macon, Augusta,
Savannah, and Chicamauga, which
cost millions to build and which pro-
vide Accommodations for hundreds of
thousands of soldiers have brought
steady stream of Uncle Sans mon
ey into the State for building mater
ials, supplies and rations. Much of
this will continue to flow in for
long time to come-to benefit all
classes and make a wonderfully pros
porous people more prosperous than
ever before in their history.
The Marietta journal and courier., 1917-11-09
Y. M. c. A. WAR WORK FUND.

The American Red Cross has done
and is prepared to do wonderful
work for the United States soldiers
and sailors whenJ they are ill or
wounded.
But what about it when they are
perfectly well, husky and full of
pep?
And most of them are in that con-
dition all the time.
Right-o,-well, that's the job of
the Red Triangle. And the Red Tri-
angle is the War Work of the Y M.
c. A. They are both red, the Red
Cross and the Red Triangle. But
they are just as separate and distinct
as anything could be. Not only are
they entirely separate as to the class
of service they perform but they are
wholly unassociated as to organiza-
ton.
Money subscribed to the Red Cross
is used and used we'll as soon as fight
ing men get into the hospital. But
before they get there it's up to the
Y. NJ. C. A. to look after a very large
number of their needs. The war de-
partment provides them with food,
clothing and shelter. 1t trains them
for their military duties. The per-
sonal influence of the officers is
splendid in developing character, but
the officers are busy and have little
time to reach the men in large num-
bers for this definite purpose. The
army and navy chaplains do their
part but there is much they cannot
do.
The Red Triangle does the rest.
1t supplies the fighting men with
writing paper, envelopes, pens, pen
ellis, postage stamps, it mails their
letters for them, gives them picture
shows, provides lectures on vital
subjects, supplies them gymnastic ex-
hibitions and musical and other en-
tertainments; its buildings are
equipped with pianos and victrolas
for the use of the men; it conducts
classes in French and English; it is
The Marietta journal and courier., 1917-11-09
A PITIFUL APPEAL.

The New York World has publish
ed an appeal in verse from federal
prisoners to be allowed to fight in
France, not just to escape Jail but to
fight for the cause that is right. The
appeal ends with the following lines :
Don't put us in with the regulars!
Some soldier boys proud dad
Would not want his son to know us,
Because he thinks we're bad.
Make us regiment all our own
And send US across the sea,
And we'll fight all our might until
death
Or the final victory.
If we died nobody would care;
Men like us would be no loss;
We'd fill a better mans grave
So why not send us across?"
The Marietta journal and courier., 1917-11-09
GOT EN- ALL SKINNED.

IT'S Common fate
To be surrounded
By folks who state:
THE man was drownded."
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Please class with these
The misfit guy
Who says he has
The "en-u-l."
Macon Telegraph
We rise to sing
The Tarheel cuss
Who calls the thing
"Barbarious."
Columbia State.
And, oh, the man,
In S. C. born,
Who ups and says:
Hes done and gone"
Fayetteville Is. c. Observer.
And these are nothin'
To the Society Queen
Who taken a trip
And tells what she seen.
South Ga. Progress.
But what of the gink
OF lowly station;
Who says he amt got
No education?.
The Marietta journal and courier., 1917-11-09
"Babbling Tongues"
A READY-WITTED PARSON.

The evening lesson was from the
Book of Job, and the minister had
just read, "Yea, the light of the wick
ed shall be put out" when immedi-
ately the church was in total dark
ness.
Brethren" said the minister, with
scarcely a moments pause, "in view
of the sudden and startling fulfill
ment of this prophecy, we will spend
y few moments in silent prayer
for the electric lighting company. y
Boston Transcript.
"BabbIing Tongues"
The Marietta journal and courier., 1917-11-09

They're doing big things down in
Georgia. No hive of bees ever work
ed harder to make it's quota of honey
than the Georgia family is doing this
season to surpass it colossal produc-
ton of past few years
When the statistician gets busy
The Marietta journal and courier., 1917-11-09
Here Is some Interesting Information
About Georgia Which Was In Page
Ad In The Literary Digest Recently

and complies his figures for 1917
and the world hears what Georgia
has accomplished 70 help win the war
there will be just cause for happy
falicitations all round.
Enough is known in these October
davs about the farm output to give
an idea as to staples:
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-01-28
HUSBAND, FATHER AND
FRIEND HAS DEPARTED LIFE

1t was a sad death, that Of Mr.. W.
f. Lennon which occurred Thursday
morning about o'clock after an i'll
ness of only a few hours. He is sur
vived by widow and one son. Many
friends extend sympathy to the be
reaved family.
Mr. Lennon was a loyal Christian
and a member of f. & a. Nj. and is
missed in all work. His merry, ever
cheerful voice around the fire-side
is no more. "Pwas sad to give him
up. but we know the Heavily Father
doeth all things for the best. His will
and not ours to be done. But, ah, my
brother we know that thou are wait
ing on the other side of Jordan to
welcome us with smiling face when
we say farewell to this old earth.
Funeral services were conducted
from the residence. four miles east OF
Cordele Friday, and interment was at
PIMA with Masonic honors.
Fraternally,
MATTE NJ. GRIFFIN.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-01-28
To DARKEN HAIR
APPLY SAGE TEA
LOOK YOUNG! BRING BACK ITS
NATURAL COLOR, GLOSS AND
ATTRACTlVENESS.

The old-time mixture of Sage Tea
and Sulphur for darkening gray,
streaked and faded hair is grandmoth-
ers recipe, and folks are again. using
it to keep their hair a good, even col
or. which is quite sensible, as we are
living in an age When a youthful ap-
pearancG is Ct the greatest advantage.
Nowadays, though, we don't have
the troublesome task of gathering the
sage and the mussy mixing at home.
All drug stores sell the ready-to-use
product, improved by the addition of
other ingredients, called 'Wyeth's
Sage and Sulphur Compound" for
about so cents bottle. 1t is very pop
ular because nobody can discover it
has been applied. Simply moisten
your comb or a soft brush with it and
draw this through your hair taking
one small strand at a time; by morn
ing the gray hair disappears, but what
delights the ladies with Wyeth's Sage
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-01-28
THE BONE DRY SCARE.

Poor old Governor Harris ought to
sit in his easy chair now and let the
whole pot and bilin"" of them tear
their hair about the extra session of
the legislature for the bone dry
amendment to the prohibition law. He
certainly has much to make him prize
the prohibition forces as a faithful po-
litical bunch They stuck by him
when he needed their support in re-
turn for his strong strokes in a for
mer special session,-not a bit. Most
Of them were studying about the hero
that the Frank case made famous.
Even the women prohibitionists
thought it was time to vote for the
man who held the honor for convict
ing Frank. The Frank hero was on
their minds. They dreamed about
him while Old Governor Harris was
running around the state night and
day pleading for their help to get his
2econd term.
There was never a better testimoni-
al as to the utter lack of appreciation
On the part of any aggregation that
has to do with state politics. They are
Enthusiastically. 1t is fact that some
q them campaign when they are So
her for prohibition, but they behave
much like crazy people when it comes
to manifesting faithful devotion to
some real man who has stood up and
faced the fire for their cause.
Playing politics with the cause of
prohibition has cost Georgia more than
the average good man can compre-
bend. The call for an extra session
now is another lime-light play clev-
crly designed. There isn't a bit of
excuse for a session of the Legislature
now. 1t is too near time for the reg
ular. Let those who forgot their pro
hibition cause and chased their Frank
hero into Office hold steady nerve. 1t
isn't time to- get frightened. Maybe
Dorsey will be a good prohibitionist.
1t is not quite fair to excite the whole
state now and call for an extra SEES
son and implore the help of good Old
Governor Harris again. Let those
who voted for Dorsey pass the thing
over TO him.
He'll make that noisy bunch look
like a slick dime and they know it,
He's just the kind that will go about
his business and run the Office as he
| thinks it ought to be run, the prohibi-
tionists to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. Don't lei anybody get an idea Dor
scy doesn't know the full complexion
of the bunch that plays politics with
prohibition. The state wants the
bone dry measure, but it would like
to have sensible men provide for it.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-01-28
HIDES NOW WORTH
FABULOUS PRICES
S. M. WATSON G. co. PAID 1890
FOR SINGLE HIDE THIS WEEK.
TWICE OLD PRICE FOR BEEF
STEER.

Here's an item that goes to prove
to farmers and cattle raisers some of
the value of cattle for marketing pur-
poses over and above the handsome
prices that are available for the meat
Friday the S. NJ. Watson company
of this city, received hide shipped by
the Leslie Grocery company, of Les
lie, Ca, which weighed ITO pounds.
1t was an unusually large and heavy
hide, about the largest that has been
shipped to the Cordele concern from
any South Georgia point. This hide
melted the shipper $3.50. 1t came from
a bull Of the South Georgia raised
stock. The average hide weighs from
20 to As pounds.
Leather has been advancing by
leaps and bounds for the mast year
and the price has been steadily on
the increase for the past three years
In 1913 this hide would have brought
only $3.50 in the market, but hides
have been jumping in price along
With leather. On the greatly agitated
market of two months ago the same
hide would have brought $25, but
since peace negotiations have been
brewing between the warning nations
the price has suffered a slump.
Mr.. Watson states that his purchas-
es Nof hides from Crisp county rails
ed cattle are steadily increasing, and
that his business has grown 100 per
cent within the past year. In 1916, he
states, that he paid out $25O,0OO for
hides alone shipped in from over
South Georgia.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-01-28
ENJOYING THE BEST.

Men who backed baseball last sea-
on have announced that they have
occurred date for a game between the
Boston Braves and the New York
Yankees here in the latter days of
March. This brings to Cordele two
cf the best baseball teams in the
world. 1t makes it possible for peo-
lie here and in adjacent localities to
witness some real playing by some of
he best players in the American mai
:onal game.
Their playing here is a real contest
staged with every performer trying to
AIRY his team to victory. Enthusiasts
ave followed George Stallings and
Bill Donovan through many a season
and each player ON these two world
'lmous teams is an familiar to the
baseball fan in this country as if the
.reat battles were waged on local
fields.
The risk of making the game pay
ut has been shouldered by local base
III supporters and the contest is 60
e to be made one of the really great
ncasions. These big league teams
eldom play real baseball in this coun-
". They practice here and go to
heir old haunts in the larger cities
: their best playing. But they have
ocasion of the visit to Cordele, be
ctuse the local enthusiasts have ask
"a them for some real playing. Dono-
van and Stallings will come to salts
IS the local desire for a glimpse OF
the worlds greatest players in action.
It will be onr greatest baseball oc-
casion. The local business men who
an to bring these teams here are 60
i.S to bring more people here on this
&c day than three circuses could at
act. | will be an attraction worth
Icing and the town is going to be
I've with people ON that day 1t is
: sufficiently large event to make ii
nth while for us to talk about it
everywhere we go. We ought to APP
"eciate the coming of the two teams
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-01-28

success which it ought to be without
interest from one end of the county to
the other. Let us suggest that ii they
will warm up to an interest which
thew ought to have in a really big fair,
the town will respond and will provide
way that will insure great success.
The Crisp County Business League
and the county fair are the next mile
posts. We must reach them early and
it will be necessary to keep on moving,
Every good man is willing to help
push. The fair will take care Of itself
financially with great ease We sim
ply need strong interest. We must
start quickly and make sure of the
purpose, then arrangements on all
farms will be made accordingly.
But, as for that, let no farmer pre-
sumo that Cordele is going to pass up
the Crisp county fair this time. Ash
burn and Vienna are close neigltbors.
They had great success last fall and
our citizens attending were simply de-
lighted at the manner in which the
people of Dooly and Turner conduct
ed these fairs. 1t would not be bad
idea to get them to help in a three
ounty fair after they have held theirs
The coming fall But we must have
Z Crisp county fair and the plans must
be made. We have enough loyal en-
call the meeting
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-01-28
PLENTY OF EcLlPsEs OF BOTH
SUN AND MOON DURING 1911

Atlanta, Jan. 27-There will be sew
en- eclipses in 1917, the largest num-
Der possible in twelve months, and
combination that has not occurred be-
fore within the lifetime of any per-
son now on earth, though not all OF
these eclipses will be visible in Geor-
gia.
Four are due from the sun and three
ere credited to the moon. The last
year in which there were seven ecllps-
es. four soIor and three lunar, was in
1905 or more than 100 years ago.
The first eclipse of the moon, which
was one of those visible in Georgia
and the southeast has already taken
place, occurring Sunday night two
weeks ago.
The other disappearances of the
llminaries in 1917 are arranged on the
following schedule:
A partial eclipse of the sun on jan
uary %, invisible in this country.
a partial clipse of the sun June IL,
invisible in America.
A total eclipse of the moon on July
4, an eclipse of the sun in July, an an
nual eclipse of the sun on December
10, and a total eclipse of the moon on
December 81 which will be perfectly
visible in all parts of North and South
America.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-01-28
THE ATHLETIC CLUB.

Rev. John Moore Walkers pet idea,
an athletic club, is about to become a
reality. A number of young men are
at work upon plans which promise
s@ccess and club worth fully one
Hundred members. OF course. the
access with which the organizers
lave met already is a matter especial
~ pleasing to many local citizens. The
Iced of such an institution has long
facn considered general.
'ordele is considered hardly large
enough to have its own Young Mems
Christian Association building and
Uantain it Those who have made
close study are agreed that the up
keep would be too heavy. The next
thing to a local building and organiza-
zion of this kind is such an athletic
club as the young men and Rev. Mr..
Walker are working up. 1t can be
maintained al a much smaller eN-
ponse and IAN be made to serve many
of the good purposes.
Whoever gets an idea that such a
club is not important ought to inves-
tigate. Hardly thing of any kind
could come into the lives OF the young
men of the community worth more
than the club the organizers have in
their minds. There are the social adj
yantages afforded in the commingling
about the reading rooms and the gym
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-01-28
STONE MOUNTAIN BECOMING
RESORT FOR ATLANTA VISITORS

Atlanta, Jan. 27.-Over 1000 men
will climb the worlds greatest bouI-
der. when the delegates to- the annual
convention of the National Associa,
ton of Builders Exchange are taken
to Stone Moontain on February II, to
view the largest granite quarries in
North Georgia on the previous day,
will reveal to the formOst construc-
tors in the United States the unsur-
passed material which this section OF
the fGq9pntry produces for building pur-
poses.
The trip to Stone Mountain will re-
veal only the wonder of the vast mass
of granite rising hundreds of feet into
the air from the level plain, but will
also give the delegates a glimpse OF
the most stupendous undertaking in
sculpture that the modern world
knows. Gutzon Borglum, the noted
sculptor, is hard at work on the face
of the cliff, carving figures of the he
roes of the Confederate army, each
one fifty or more feet in height, but Of
the solid stone.
The builders convention which is
one of the largest of the national con-
ventions to come south this year, will
meet in Atlanta from February II to
January II inclusive.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-01-28

stage OF the insect, and in about a
month will emerge as an adult fly.
Destroy the grubs by MASKING or
crushing them or by injecting a few
drops of gasoline in the opening OF the
skin around the bot.
These grubs do untold damage to
hides, one or more holes lowering the
price as much as / to 2 cents. Help
TO save these thousands Of dollars in
hides and keep your cattle healthier
and stronger.