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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1918-12-05
THE GRUB AND THE MOTH

Ned Flowerton knocked off work
reluctantly when the whistle sounded
At the Armsted plant. Although he
wanted to get to Arcadia in time TO
lake Fay to the country club dance,
he piece Of work he was engaged on
?ad kept him later than he expected.
He hastily washed off the CRIME and
grease of his days work, changed
rom overalls to the suit in which he
had come to work and ran for the
train to Arcadia
He was feeling the self-respect, the
sense of deserving which is the por-
ton of the man who has worked hard
and we'll at his chosen labor. Await
ing him at Blake's was the girl of his
heart-youth. charm, music, love, and
dance In prospect That he would be
an hour late to the Blakes, that he
would have to go without dinner,
troubled him not at all. He had the
best of excuses in the world for ate-
ness work She would understand!
He bounded to the porch of the
Blake home, then stopped In surprise
To see it almost dark.
where are the Blakes? Where is
Miss Summers" he asked the maid,
They've gone to the countr' club
dance in Mr. Bennings' car" she told
him. They left word for you to join
them.
Ned wondered vaguely why they did
not wait for him. He had sent word
he would be late. Perhaps they were
tempted by the protection of Ben
nings' limousine--it looked threaten
ing overhead. Still, Fay might have
waited
He reached the ballroom while fox
trot was in full career From over the
shoulders of the "wallhowers" at the
door he spied Fay in the fluffiest film
siest, newest little creation of ball
gown. dancing with Sam Bennings re-
splendent in faultless Tuxedo and
white fannels. Ned shot a smile at
Fay when he caught her eye. He was
surprised to find that he had made a
mistake. She had not seen him. He
worked his way to where she was
sure TO come close to him. This time
re called out softly. but so that she
oud not fail to hear.
Fay looked at him from over Ben
ing's shoulder and the look in her
oce troubled Ned She must be dis
leased that he had come in his every
~ clothes. But surely that was
ne!
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1918-12-05
tBy Associated Press,

PARIS, December s. Louis. l.
klotZ minister of finance. announced
Tuesday that subscriptions to French
Liberation loan had reached the
nominal total of 27,750,000,00 francs
or a real value of 1880. 100000 the
bonds selling at 1880 francs. The fin
al results of the campaign are not as
yet known. complete foreign and CO.
ed.
NJ. klotZ said that foreign subscrip-
tions so far received, had totalled $685.
100000 francs. nominal The three
previous loans realized respectively
$4,000. 100000; 1900, 100000 and H.
000.000.000 he said. pointing out that
the result Of the subscriptions to the
last loan probably will be fifty per-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1918-12-05

special charter authorizing its prepara
tion and sale.
The good housewife of Holland would
almost soon be without food as
without her Real Dutch Drops, as
she quantity calls GOLD MEDAL Hadr.
lem Oil Capsules. Their use restores
strength aud is responsible i'll a great
measure for the sturdy, robust health
Of the llollanderS.
DO not delay. Go to your druggist
and insist on his supplying you with
box of GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil
Capsules. Take them directed, and
if YOU are nat satisfied with results
your druggist will gladly refund your
money. Look for the name GOLD
MEDAL on the box and accept no other.
In sealed boxes, three siZes.--Adv.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1918-12-05

many must pay the expenses OF this
war. Premier Clemenceau says: The
most terrible account of people to
people is opened. Certainly the tax
payers will accept all sacrifices but
they must be given knowledge OF the
fact that we have exacted from the
enemy complete restoration adm re-
paration."
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1918-12-05
French Subscribed Total Of
H,75O, ,OO0, 900 Francs to War Loan

cent greater than the largest of the
loans in the past.
Argentine subscribed 125.00O.000
compared to 12.5O0,000 in 1917 Al,
geria 5OO.0O0,0O0 against 230,0O0,O0
and Morocco 56,000.000 compared to
7.50O,0O0. Russian coupons brought
only 25O,000,0O0. The number OF sub
scribers to the loan was given as sew
en- million.
The minister OF finance, in discuss
ing the results of the loan said:
When comparing the last loans in
France and Germany, one finds that.
generally speaking. each Frenchman
subscribed for seven hundred francs.
while in Germany the average was
less than two hundred.
Premier Lloyd George OF Great
Britain has firmly declared that Ger
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1918-12-05
led's expression changed to hurt

Ned's expression changed to hurt
seriousness.
I'm sorry, Fay / couldn't have
known what the folks expected to see
tonight Besides I've got more i'm
portant things to worry about. Ben
nings brought you here?" he added, to
change the subject, which was becom-
ing distasteful to him.
Yes. he did, Fay snapped. smart
ing under the unspoken reproof she
felt IF it weren't for him, I'd have
stayed at home tonight"
Ned was puzzled and nettled
I'm sure I'm greatly in debt TO the
Golden Calf he said Il feel reproach-
ed by his superior worth"
Well" Fay flashed. "he at least
knows how to give girl nice time!"
They both lapsed into silence. Fay's
words and manner betrayed more than
she had intended She did not mean
to let Ned know the comparisons her
mind had been making She was
sorry she had spoken. But the quick
sensibility of the lover had caught
implications that shot poisoned arrows
into his heart.
So she was comparing Bennings'
money with the mecnan1c wages
Ned was making! Ned squirmed in
wardly. His face hardened.
Il know what you mean, Fay" he
said. "And let me tell you, I'm going
to beat the Golden Calf out on his
own ground I'm going to make enough
money to put him in the piker class
by comparison-and I'm not going to
do it by the twenty two-dollaraweek
route, either Just watch mel"
(To be continued)
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1918-12-05
EDNEY WEAKENING?
LOOK OUT!

Kidney and bladder troubles don't
Sappear of themselves. They grow
ron you, slowly but steadily under
ming your health with deadly GER
inty, untl YOU fall victim to in
Uable disease.
Stop your troubles while there is
ne. Don't wait until little pains be-
me big aches. Don't trifir with dis
Sc To avoid future suffering hegiu
,atment with GOLD MEDAL HARLEM
| Capsules now. Take three or four
'ry day until YOU feel that YOU are
rireiy free from pain.
This we'll known preparation has
n one of the national remedies of
Hand for centuries. In 1896 the gov
meut of the Netherlands granted a
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1918-12-05
PLAN VICTORY JUBILEE.

EATON, o., Dec. 5.-A Pythian vic
tory jubilee will be held December ~
at West Alexandria, all the lodges of
the fraternity in Preble county being
invited to participate in the affair.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1918-12-05

over 400 printers have been idle in
Dublin, Ireland, in consequence of
lockout in the boo kand job printing
houses
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-09-24
ONLY ONE ANSWER. NO

The request Of Austria for confidential eX-
changes between diplomats representing the
several belligerents, with view to azcer-
tanning whether peace is possible, is a subtle
and dangerous attack against the allies on
their weaker side.
The request is an appeal to the cowardice
of the democratic peoples.
While glibly talking of rights and princi-
pies the whole argument of the enemy may
be summed up in a sentence The enemy
says that since attainment Of our real aims
would involvc additional sacrifices we ought
to abandon our aims When it is recalled
that our real purpose is to destroy the seeds
of war in the world, and that this cannot
be done without depriving the Hohenzollerns
and Hapsburgs of all power to plot against
the worlds peace, the impossibility of &C
complishing anything except our own sur
render at a secret conference of diplomats
is plain
Medieval and ban barrie government in cen
trail Europe is seeking to salvage its institu-
tions. The peoples who are not affrighted
when it is the tiger must not be beguiled
when it is the serpent. The only possible an
sWer 10 the enemys request Tor confer
ence was the one made by the president
the same answer we returned when, only
two months Ego, he was endeavoring to
thrust conference down our threats with
hayonets.
The answer is that we stand unmoved,
that we can think clearly as we'll as fight
boldly, and that our terms are unconditional
surrender.
That America or any of the great allies
would now quit with the task half done is
quite unthinkable. The question is merely
one of combating the peril to our internal
front that turks in the impossible suggestion.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-09-24
THE PRIMARY LAW.

During the progress of the senatorial cam
paign number of our contemporaries that
were ardent in support of Hon. W. J. Har-
ris, the successful candidate severely and
frequently mathematical the state primary
Law. claiming that it endangered the success
of Mr.. Harris and would probably result in
the reelection of Senator Hardwick. If
that was their real concern, their only rea-
son for criticising the law, it is fair to as
sumo that their opinion Of it has undergone
change and they are now decidedly in favor
of it, as it has proved to be the salvation
Of Mr.. Harris and made his election over
whelmingly certain in the convention If the
primary had been held under rules requir-
ing the successful candidate to receive a ma
ioritv Of the popular vote, as some Of our
contemporaries seemed to want, no one
would have been nominated on the 18th of
September, and q second election would
have been necessary.
The News has always favored the county
unit plan, a time-honored custom of the
democratic party, and which, with one or
two notable exceptions, has been rigidly adj
hered to by Georgia democrats. It safeguards
the rights, influence and dignity Of the
country counties and prevents the control
Of the party and the state by thickly popu-
lated centers in circumscrbed areas. We
are furthermore opposed to changing our
laws and party rules every two years to suit
the needs and serve the purposes of a fac
ton that may be in control at the time.
Our election laws should not be the play
thing Of partisan politicians.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-09-24
IMPORTANT NOTICE.

Attention IF =ubscribers to The News IS
called to N order IF t1- -.--..ere. ZACH
has been published in these columns a
number of times that, after October list,
newspapers cannot be mailed to subscribers
who are in arrears All subscriptions must
be paid in advance.
The News is, therefore, forced to a cash
basis, and our friends and readers are ask
ed to cooperate with the paper by cordially
meeting the new conditions which have been
forced upon US. We would regret the neces-
sity Of disseminating the paper of single
subscriber after the first of next month
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-09-24
Have a Carpet of Green On
Every Acre This Winter
From the Progressive Farmer.

Soil wasting is the agricultural South's
great economic sin Everywhere we see evil
dences of It. Our muddy streams are freight
ed with plant foods, leaving behind them
quilted fields, poor farms and poorer farm
ers.
Upon the solution of this problem depends
our whole agricultural future; for there can.
be no prosperous agriculture without rich
land. Happily, however, thousands of our
best farmers are already learning that fer
tile soil is the very first essential, if profits
are to be had, and are taking steps to So
-Hoir soils and add to their fertility.
In this york of soil-saving and soil-build-
ing, cover cr0r- on absolute necessity;
ar. lne ut of all coz = Cts are the leg
90 o. ms, NO only ne ~ rolls and
p4-nt 80 ,., -~5 -. IN ". hing
and ie~c-,--.s away, = - the sa. ~
they are taking nitrogen, -. ~---+ VS.
plant food element, from the ali md stor-
ing it for the crops that are to follow Al
of all the legumes that may be used for soil
saving and soil-building during the fall win
ter and spring months we place crimson
clover first. The seed required to plant an
acre will usually cost less than the seed of
other winter legumes and the crop is ready
to pillow under in April for crop of corn
to follow. Bur clover finds its best use as
2 part of a permanent pasture combination,
though some farmers are using it very sue
cessfully in cultivated fields as a cover crop
to be plowed under in the spring, while the
late maturity Of vetch makes it most valu-
able as hay crop.
The point we would emphasize here is
that any good winter cover crop, legume or
non-legume, viii pay handsomely They are
so badly needed, in fact, that we simply
cannot afford to be without them Every
farmer should aim to have his whole farm
covered with a winter carpet of green. The
rewards will be sure to come, in the form
of richer fields, bigger crops and more
profits.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-09-24
FIXING COTTON.

The proposal Of the government at Wash
ington to put a price on the farmers cot
ton is a question that more directly af-
fects the South than any which has ever
been mp for consideration The South knows
that cotton is bringing no more-not as
much, in fact, when the prices at which the
mills are selling the manufactured products
is considered-than it should and that
when costs Of production are compared the
ruoa. to the grower is still in favor of the
wheat farmer Of the West over the cotton
farmer
They. remember, too that when cotton
was I'VE and six cents a pound, and the
cotton farmers were unable to pay their
bills for common necessities, although the
sweat from their brows in the desperation
Of their efforts almost irrigated the burrows
in which they worked, the government made
no attempt to fix a price that could bring
them relief. And now, when prices are more
commensurate with the cost of production,
there is no good reason why the same nat
ural law Of supply and demand should not
continue to regulate the prices
The cotton states are patriotic. They have
responded generously and cheerfully with
their sons and their treasure to every cal
of the government in the prosecution of the
war, and certainly the cotton farmer who
has been living from hand to mouth fol
years, and who suffered one very disastrous
season because of the war, when his cottor
could hardly be given away, cannot be crit
cised if he now wants and takes a reasonable
price for his principal crop. He still is no
asking as much for his cotton, when all fact
of Importance to the comparison are consid
cred, as is the wheat grower for his wheat
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-09-24
A KIND FOSTER PARENT.

Secretary McAdoo makes a kindly foster
parents to the railroad employees He has
just approved the request of the track hands,
station agents, clerks and laborers to the
number of a round million for a substantial
increase in their wage schedule, which will
involve an additional annual expenditure of
$3.50, 100000. These workers are not mem
bers of the big railroad organizations. 1t
will be remembered that few months ago
the wages of the trainmen, engineers and
shop mechanics to the number Of ,200,00
received a substantial boost to the amount
Of $780, 600 annually. These men were
all in the brotherhood organization. The
present raise to the unorganized workers is
to put them upon the same basis as the men
in the brotherhoods. 1t is simple act of
justice which the people will unhesitatingly
approve.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-09-24
A GREAT LOSS

Announcement by the agricultural depart
ment that the prospective corn crop will be
10000 600 bushels short Of the estimate
means not only so much less food but so
much less wealth. AS the estimate had been
based on the condition of the crop at the
time it had been made the decrease is a loss
of approximately $80O,OOO,OOO Of course
part Of this amount is actual loss, and part
of it more or less speculative. Yet, the fact
remains that so much less corn is just so
much less cash.
The loss falls heaviest on the great "corn
belt" which, during the month of August
suffered from lack of rain. There corn liter
ally burned up under the blistering rays
Of the sun. Rain came too late to save the
crop. 1t is upon the farmers of that section
that monetary loss falls the heaviest, though
the whole country will suffer from so much
loss in national wealth
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-09-24
BATTLEFIELD BLOSSOMS
Up Through the Sod Comes the Hearts
Blood Spilled for France.
Nany WITNESSES of dc havoc wrought by

Many witnesses of the havoc wrought by
war, through books and letters they have
written, have mentioned how Nature is do
ing her best to soften the desOlation result
ing from she'll and shrapne flinging a man
tie of grass and flowers over the battle
fields, says the Detroit Free Press editorially.
Mrs. Duryea, president of the Duryea war
relief, says attention is often called to the
unusual size of the peoples here and there,
and that the observer is assured that be-
meath always lies soldier of France, whose
life-blood has arisen from death in beauty
and vigor through Natures eternal resur-
rection. Up through the sod comes the
hearts blood spilled for France
Omar Khayyam expressed much the same
thought in the Rubaiyat some eight centuries
ago:
Il sometimes think that never blows so red
The rose as where some buried Caesar bled.
That every hyacinth the garden wears
Dropped in her lap from some once lovely
head"
A similar sentiment is voiced in Lieut..
McCrea's charming lyric, In Flanders Fields,
one of the most touchingly patriotic poems
evoked by the war, beginning:
"In Flanders field the poppes blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place
The legend of the soldiers blood rein
carnated in flaming poppy petals is substan-
tiated in the popular mind by the fact that
after the battle of Landen, in the Neither
lands, in 1908, millions of scarlet poppies
sprang up on the field. The same thing is
said to have occurred after Waterloo. Their
presence can be accounted for in the same
way that we explain the annual whitening
of Georgia's fields not by her cotton crop,
but by the profusion OF the northern daisies
that are memory of Sherman's war-worn
soldiers who camped here during the civil
war The seed came in forage shipped to
the army, just as certain of our common
and pestiferous weeds are souvenirs Of for
eign importations. The poppy is indigenous
to Europe; growing freely among the crops,
as it does it naturally reproduces itself in
prOfusion when undist-lrbed.
What weed seeds will he our dover to
Eurone IS reminders # tho war Is vet to
be disclosed. But some there will be-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-09-24
A REMARKABLE VICTORY.

Many of the newspapers of the state have
congratulated VIM. D. Upshaw on his cleo
ton to congress. The Triton Gazette, in
felicitating both Mr.. Upshaw and the Fifth
district, says;
VIM. D Upshaw will make valuable
addition to Georgia's representation in
congress. He is loyal; he is able, and
his sincerity and devotion to an ideal
won him many years ago the sobriquet,
Earnest Willie" When training ripens
natural ability ne will make Georgia
once more recognized in the lower
house. The people of the Fifth have
done the state favor by electing him;
he viii stand for something besides
spoils. in the national legislature.
Mr.. Upshaw's election to congress was
the most remarkable of all recent campaigns
After conquering spinal injury that would
have made most men invalids he has devoted
his life to working for uplift and education.
Now he is to have the honor of representing
in congress the largest and wealthiest dis
trict in the southern states. He won his
fight decisively, carrying all but one small
county in his district.
In view of the race he made for congress
he might now be the nominee for the United
States senate had he not withdrawn from
the contest.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-09-24

The Monroe Tribune would considerably
reduce the population of Georgia. 1t "wish-
es there was law allowing folks to hang
cheap skates and demagOgues," and adds
God knows Georgia is sometimes sorely
afflicted in this respect" We suggest that
cur contemporary wait until after the next
census is taken.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-09-24

The fact that liquor has, in a very large
measure, been done away with makes it
possible for many people to own, operate
and enjoy automobiles, says the Walton
News. But what's the difference? man
drunk on gas is just about as inconsiderate
and dangerous as one drunk on booze.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-09-24

In recent proclamation President Will
cor ~aid that 1--WE are all enlisted men, mem
hers of single army of many parts and
many tasks, but commanded by a single
obligation. our faces set toward single
object" A lofty sentiment finely expressed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-09-24

In addition to her paramount gift of men
to the nation Georgia is presenting wealth
of food products. Much of the foodstuffs
that will feed the allied armies is the prod
uct of the fertile billowy lands of the
"goober" state. Nature has been bounteous
in sunshine and rain this season, and the
earth has responded plenteously. In the
same opulent spirit this loyal hearted state
viii send forward her products to feed the
nations fighting forces
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-09-24

And now it is up to the forehanded
housekeeper to prepare to meet old King
Boreas, who is sure to make his attack
whether Hidenburg is beaten or not. The
strategic thing to do is to fill coal bunkers
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-09-24

The Goldfish lays approximately As 100000
body would only cross a Goldfish with a hen.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-09-24

1t is up to the people to support the fourth
liberty loan with more enthusiasm and
unanimity than any of the loans which have
gone before. Some have an idea of letting
the banks do it. The banks have heavy
burdens to carry in the floating of this i'm
mense loan, but they can't do it alone; the
people have got to buy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-09-24

The candidates are now publishing how
much they spent themselves. The public
will never know how much was really spent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-09-24

The farmers of Georgia are depending up
on Senator Smith to take care of their in
terests in the movement by the government
to put a price on their cotton.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-09-24

The New York World observes that one
result of gasoline conservation, apparent to
all who are more than 20 years Old is that
Sunday seems like Sunday
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-09-24

The Dawson merchants have stocked their
shelves with large and magnificent stocks
of goods, and their advertisements in The
News this fall will bring the people from
many miles around to buy them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-09-24
CAN'T RIDE A DEAD HORSE.

In all probability we have heard the last
of the Frank case in a political campaign
in Georgia. Evidently the people are tired
of having that malodorous chapter in Georgia
history mixed up in their political affairs,
where it had no place at any time, and much
less now, when the public would undoubted-
ly prefer to forget it. In the recent election
I. Z. Patterson, the member of the prison
commission NO otcd in -avor of commut-
ing Leo FrerAs sente~ e from death to life
imprisonment. as reelected = one OF the
,-gest Iajorities given ny candidate for
e,..~- go IN oDDOnent who let it
'szsas~u-~- son favored cleaio-.~.
~ 81 y --,i...,, -'.=,
Two years ag another lis. = &c tn
prison commits IN was reelected over a
member o. the rl~2l, Jury who opposed him
Hence. u Sc evident that the Frank case is
.-,- 81. --;ts % conjula with in a political
contest.
The News assumes that every public Off
cial who had anything to do with the Frank
case acted conscientiously and in accord
with their judgment for which they are to
be commended.