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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1917
Page
7
The Lanks County Journal notes political and religious groups across North America backing an international Sunday Go-to-Sunday Show Day. It cites enthusiasm from Georgia Sunday schools expecting higher attendance as denominations unite in a wartime information campaign.
Sidney Holderness of Carrollton and Judge Charles L. Davis of Warm Springs opened their Greenville campaign at the courthouse. Col. Holderness urged national unity and wartime victory while denouncing coal barons and food speculators as harmful to consumers.
A local Talbotton, Georgia pamphlet letter criticizes William Schley Howard and others for applying insulting terms to communities and calls for restraint. The writer urges citizens not to name call or incite hostility and to report traitors to authorities instead.
W J Bryan argues against allied bombing of women and children in Germany as inhumane and counter to moral, historical standards. He warns that mirroring German brutality would undermine the Allies moral argument and alienate German Americans from the fatherland, weakening resolve in wartime.
Supporters push Holderness across Troup Meriwether and Coweta counties in Georgia as they rally behind his congressional bid. Backers claim he is efficient, broad, deep, and safe, predicting a November victory that would seat him in Congress representing the Fourth District.
An examination of how American presidential power compares to European dictatorships. The author argues that U S leaders wield power only by the will of the people, limited to a single term in emergency, with the presidency not a mere monarchy but a temporary trust. European rulers lack such volitional limits, making their regimes true dictatorships.
On Ina Monday Claude Pitman attorney of Cartersville Ga addressed a meeting on Liberty Bonds at Dom oret After the speaking a farmer subscriber 5000 to the Liberty Bonds Campaign ending the drive text suggests a strong local effort to fund the Liberty Loan program with a sizable contribution by a local farmer and remarks by Pitman
Wm Guyt McLendon presides on Liberty Loan Day as Holderness urges citizens to back war bonds. He calls loyal Americans who support troops and condemns slackers, urging every man to invest to show patriotism and finance victory, citing past wars and the flag.
Carroll County grand jury urges citizens to subscribe to Liberty Loan bonds as a patriotic duty amid national wartime prosperity. They assert no safer investment exists and call on every rural community to stand with the government in defense of the nation and its institutions.
An appeal urges citizens to take the lead in completing a public work project at the Simon ton Hospital and to push for a kindergarten in the public schools. It calls for active leadership, asking who will respond and urging timely subscription payments to support the cause.
Carrollton is actively seeking leaders following a notable period of work to secure the Daws- Laguit initiative. Community organizers stress the need for strong guidance and collaboration to advance the project.
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