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THE TIMES-RECORDER.
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THE AMERICUS RECORDER*
1879.
THE AMERICUS TIMES
Eatablisked April, 1891.
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City of Amesrieus.
Sumter County.
Webster County.
Railroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District..
r. 8. Court, Southern District of
Georgia
Americas, <■'«-, June 13, 1913
♦ THE PROSPECT ♦
(Baltimore American.)
Now the year of work is done,
Comes a time of leisure.
Best time filled with promises
Os a summer pleasure.
And on faces tired a smile
Joins a gentle humming
Os the good times not far off —
Vacation days are coming.
In the office, at the desk
Pens in busy fingers
Stop their scratching for a while
As in heads there linger
Thoughts of walls transformed to
woods.
With a brook’s gay bubble,
Lolling by its mossy side,
’Stead of toll and trouble.
Ib ears liarderacd to the sound
Os the city noise
New there steals a cool fresh hint
Os the ocean’s Joys,
Os the peace of far-off hills —
Yes, all pleasures summing
is the thought now in the air—
Vacation times are coming!
No frost for the crop of June brides
in Georgia !
The pure tVnad erasade here should
make every meal taste hotter.
Whoever heard of winter here a;
green pilum and feUwfk terry time?
Americus should see that the Sea
board shops are even enlarged later
on..
“Now let's lesrveaff studying the crop
reports long enough to cheer the team
«
on to victory
Secretary Bryan will never be com
pelled to defend his temperance re
cord —if he only sticks to grape juice.
This Democratic administration
seems determined to develop patience
in some applicants tor postoffice jobs
If it had only gotten a little colder
fhere- won lid have been fce so the ice
man con id have got tea in on the deal
Those gents who were going to
"shoot the tariff ftis*of Iholes" don’t ap
rear to have got the mage right th<“
time.
Since Chriatahef PanJrtrnrsT left Lon
*J*n things there are so quirt that one
can almost hear aa “fe~ Arofi.—-Colum
bia State
THE CITY’S WATERWORKS
A matter of more than trivial im
portance is the water supply of a mod
ern city, and this is an asset in which
Americus is especially fortunate and
blessed. The water supply here is
pure and it is ample for all needs of
the city now and for many years to
come.
It is a stimulant of civic patriotism
for any citizen or resident of Ameri
cus to make a visit to the city water
works and to inspect the neatness and
order which prevails there. The sys
tem in vogue at the local water works
does not permit of haphazard methods
or practices in regard to that vital el
ement of the city’s progress, a pure
and adequate water supply.
There is no room for insanitary
methods at the local water works. Ev
#
ery modern aid in preserving the
purity of the water both at the source
and in the reservoirs is employed. The
springs and the artesian wells are
kept clean and pure, giving the city a
water supply that is probably not
equalled in Georgia, certainly not sur
passed.
The excellence of the water works
system here is ample justification of
the methods and prevailing system un
der which such desirable results have
been obtained. To City Engineer
Ansley and to Station Engineer Stev
ens belongs much praise for the good
results that have been obtained. Back
of them, of course, is the wise policy
which has brought about a municipal
ity owend and operated water works
system, which has not only been a
strong contributing factor in public
health and comfort but has also been
instrumental in contributing largely to
the filling of the municipal purse.
If the Colonel would distribute his
liquid refreshments and keep himself
in the cellar the country would be hap
pier.—Florida Times-Union.
It is said that Mr. Lyman Abbo t
was always peaceful enough until he
met Colonel Roosevelt. So was the
republican party.—Memphis Commer
cial-Appeal.
PROGRESS FOR THE MASSES
Forces that serve to strike home :o
the hearts and lives of the masses are
forces that of themselves are worthy.
The impetus given to farm work and
toward helping the farmer is a force
that means advancement for the hu
man family as a whole. The following
plea for the State Agricultural College
from the Atlanta Journal is timely:
‘‘The only enduring conquests,” sai-l
a French philosopher, “are conquests
made with tbW 4is?h.'’ Certain it is!
that the progress W a s'ate like Geor
gia is very largely the progress of its
agricultural interests. Successful
farming means Intoyant commerc v
thriving ail those val
ues that make a prosperous common
wealth and a contented people. Any
agency or institution, therefore, which
j makes for the betterment of farming
I methods and farm coml.ticns in Geor
gia deserves the i .artiest good will
and support of every citizen whether
of the town or the country. Such an
institution is the State College of Ag
riculture at Athens.
The important changes which the
past five years have witnessed in the
agricultural status of Georgia—the
adoption of scientific and economic
methods of cultivation, the tendency
toward diversified crops and toward r.
larger producton of food supplies—are
due chiefly, we believe, to the efficient
and far-reaching work of this institu
tion. It has been well said that the
opportunity for such work lay in the
wilingness of the Georgia farmer to
grow other tJan cotton, to raise live
stock and foodstuffs and to assert the
measure of independence within his
grasp. But in order that this recep
tive spirit might be 'turned to practical
account, it was necessary that it ue
given due encouragement in the right
direction; and therein has lain tlpe
womderful usefulness of the State Col
lege of Agriculture.
Statistics show that during the past
year more than one hundred and
twenty thousand Georgia farmers al
tended the lectures and demonstra
tions given by representatives of the
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College on new ways and better wavs
of farming—a fact which proves that
■ this institution is not only instructing
' and inspiring the young men of its
1 immediate student body but is also
1 bearing the light and power of educa
• tion directly to the masses of farmers
f in every corner of the state. Equally
> significant of its work and purpose are
the Boys’ Corn Clubs, the Girls’ Can
-1 ning clubs, and the farm demonstra
" tion agencies through which thousands
p of people are reached and organized
l for their own benefit and for the cause
■ of agricultural progress.
5 In addition to all these lines of pub
-5 lie endeavor, the college is continually
• issuing bulletins on subjects of timely
; interest and is answering inquiries for
specific information on all manner of
’ farm problems. In this field alone tlhe
' value of its service is beyond reckon
ing.
“ What the College is doing for its
! enrolled students is indicated in the
! fact that its attendance has increased
1 from a mere handful five years ago to
: three hundred and fifty students in
■ the scholastic year now ending. It
has, indeed, established for this state
; a new ideal of agricltural education
and has exemplified the truth that
farming demands of the young men
who would follow it as high a degree
of culture and equipment as does
medicine, the law, engineering or any
other profession.
The State cannot deal too generous
ly with an institution that is doing
work so splendid and so practical as
this. The Legislature should bear in
mind the fact that every dollar appro
priated to the College of Agriculture (
yields a vital return to all the people!
of Georgia and that an institution I
r
which is growing so rapidly as this;
one and which is meeting so wide a
range of demands naturally requires
increased facilities and increased fin
ancial means.
MYSTERIES OF THE PLAGUE
Its Appearance and Disappearance
Have Never Been Satisfactorily
Explained
(Pall Mail Gazette.)
Why did the s plague disappear from
England? Mr. Bernard Shaw inci
dentally asks this deeply interesting
question in a letter to the Nation and
we cannot say that we are satisfied
with his answer. He says he “knows”
1 that plague has been “extirpated” by
. “common sanitation.” Until the recent
sporadic imported cases, the last rec
orded cases of plague in England oc
' curred at Nottingham in 1667. In that
year plague vanished utterly from
i England for two and q half centuries.
. No one who has examined the records
of the seventeenth century can believe
that it was “extirpated" by sanitation, j
Very gradually in the succeeding cen
> tury and a half plague withdrew from
1 Europe also. The date of its disap
pearance from Constantinople has been J
fixed at about the year 1841. It re- j
mained endemic only in a few lonely
places in the world, such as the high
s lands of western Arabia, Yunnan-in
i China, and Mesopotamia Sanitation,
though an excellent palliative, certain
’i ly never drove the plague from Stam
boul and Cairo and the Southern Med
' iterranean, any more than it. did from 1
r: England. The shrinkage of plague is ,
, as great a mystery as the recent fresh
j outburst which is infecting the whole
j world. Perhaps the explanation is that
|in a few years bacteria may go through
'-.the myriad transforming processes of
-■ evolution which in the case of hum-
B unity take eons to complete.
CO-OPERATION’S STRONG HOLD ON
ENGLAND
(Springfield Republican.)
1 The tremendous scale upon which
- co-operative effort is carried on n
b England is indicated in the figures
which have just been issued as a blue
j book analyzing the returns for the
'.year 1911. Co-operation, as represent
'led by the societies carrying on indus
■ tries or trades, by small societies (in
deluding small holding associations) en
rolled at he end of 1911 a membership
of 2.992,590. A dispa’eh to the New j
1 York Times states that the total ac
• counts of the societies dealt with in j
t the report aggregated $340,445,235, rep
, resenting an increase of approximately
$24,000,000 during 1911. It is added
that the aggregate sales of the ordin
ary co-operative societies included in
t the returns amounted to $650,106,456.
i The figures are impressive as showing
how firmly the co-operative idea has
j taken hold in England and become a
I factor in the economic and social or
\gunizatioii.
EUROPE’S NEW CAPITAL
(London World.)
Fifty years ago Berlin was the seat
of government of a poor, discontented, 1
agricultural state, a North European |
counterpart of Turin. It was a garri
son town and a place of some political
importance, but it did not rank high
among the historical cities of Germany
Munich, Frankfort, Hamburg, to name
no other surpassed it in wealth, cul
tuie and interest, while in Prussia it
self Koenigsburg robbed it of the his
torical association that should apper
tain to the chief city of a state. The
Berlin of the sixties is a clear memory
to nien still living, but the visitor will
look in vain for traces of it. Fifty
years have wiped it out. Modern
Berlin is the exact opposite of modern
Paris. Paris, after all, is very much
what Napoleon 111 left it. Berlin dates
from Sedan. Its interest lies in its
endeavor to embody the spirit of mod
em Germany. It is the outward ex
pression of a tumult ©f sofl.
Berlin’s aim was to borow all that
was best from other cities, shops ana
palaces, and improve on them and fuse
them into something characteristically
German. It has made its borrowings,
but it has failed to improve, it has
failed to fuse and it has failed to Ger
manize. Berlin is a servant in Ihis
master’s clothes—a servant who ha 3
put on an evening waistcoat, a morn
ing coat and a wedding tie. Every
where in Berlin you get the sense of
ornament deliberately attempted by
people who do not understand its real
nature, but believe that size and show
ness will compensate for lack of in
stinct. That is the note of Berlin, from
the series of plastic spasms in the
Siegesallee to the latest villa residence
beyond the Kurfurstenhamn. That i 3
why Americans like Berlin.
But in spite of all, Berlin is a great
city. What is more, it is an individual
city. Its life shows through its tawdry
trappings. But only in one respect has
j that life shaped itself into definite ex
j pression Berlin is the best organized
j city in Europe. It runs on clockwork.
| Its streets are straight and clean, its
trams swift and übiquitous, its great
shops miracles of concentration under
a single roof. C!ve in Berlin long en
ough bo get below its artificial surface
and you will understand whythe Ger
man finds in it the spirit which has
made his empire.
THE TROUBLE IN WALL STREET
(New York Sun.)
What is going on in Wall street is
simply this: The whole world has
come to understand that the facility
with which credit can be created and
expanded has been abused and that the
perfection of capitalizing process has
lent itself to an overdiscounting of the
future. Money is very tight. It may i
be that the acident of war in Europe
and the war scare which spread from
it have caused a hoarding of cash
which will retuYn in time to the money
markets, but there are tokens that the
situation is more fundamental and far
reaching. In any case, it has been
signalized by a rapid spread of appre
ciation in the last few weeks, both
here and abroad, of the limitations of
I money for the near future, and in ord
'er to assist borrowers who had to be
accommodated there has been a great
dislocation o: funds already placed.
What is going on in Wall street s
! primarily the reflection of Europe s
need for money. It was European
'selling of our securities which con
verted stock market advance into de
cline a year ago, and it has been Eu
rope’s need for money which has be-!
gun to make itself felt in the field of 1
general business. What is going on in j
I Wall Street is precisely what is going I
on at practically every financial center
abroad, namely, an effort to release
funds from fixed commitments in order
to make money available for the re
quirements of new borrowing. Sooner
or later a stage will be reached, if it
has not already been reached, when
I this process of liquidation will set up
certain compensations; this is the
process which is under way and it .s
that which Wall Street was foreshad
towine last winter when the idea pre
vailed that its troubles were altogether
its own.
PLIGHT OF A CONGRESSMAN
#
(Portland Oregonian.)
Says the Louisville Courier Journal:
“The right to make an ass of oneself
is inalienable. But Mr. Sisson should
bear in mind that when President Wil
i son asks him not to make popgun
speeches about war with Japan he
J merely urges him not to make an ass
of his country in the eyes of foreigners
who do not understand the unimport
ance of such speeches as Mr. Sisson :.s
capable of making.”
But what is poor Sisson to do >n
order to attract attention? If he were
to go quietly on his way, nobody would
notice him. He is incapable of any feat
of genius except in the direction of
asinity.
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THE SENATE’S SILLY SEASON.
(New York World.)
To do Senator Charles E. Townsend
ful justice, he perhaps did not realize
how infamous was the charge he was
making against the President of the
United States when he accused Mr.
Wilson of the "coercion of Senators”
to support the policy of the adminis
tration’by the “withholding of patron
age.”
To a man brought up in Michigan
politics it probably seems the most
natural thing in the world that a Pres
ident should try to secure legislation
by bribing Senators with patronage to
vote as he thinks they should. To
Michigan, lumber and beet sugar are
Senate and House, Supreme Court and
Constitution. They are the super-Gov.
ernment, the oversoul, the great two
headed joss; and he who does not daily
bow down and make his morning ori
sons to them is a heretic and an out
cast. Lumber and beet sugar would
use patronage or any other weapon to
club recalcitrants into subjection; why
should a mere President be more
scrupulous? '
Os course Senator Townsend failed
to make his charge good. No senator
had complained to him of being coerc
ed. No reputable person had told him
that Senators were being coerced. He
spoke from “common report,” but cit
ed newspaper publication thereof, but
he would find it difficult to quote any
reputable newspaper which had made
the damaging assertion.
Yet on the strength of such unsup
ported gossip. Senators who have al
ready testified are to be recalled at
the request of any single member of
the Senate Committee and asked
whether the President has tried to co
erce them! Truly the silly season has
begun.
SOUTH AMERICA’S TURN NEXT
(Boston Transcript.)
Jaguars of the Amafion, quake! Yes,
’tis said to be quite possible that the
Colonel will go to Brazil on a hunting
trip, his son. who is working for a ril
road down in that hunter’s paradise,
having sent back such glowing ac
counts of the game awaiting the trus
ty, not to say rusty, rifle that Nimrod’s
soul is aroused again with that fervor
which carried him post haste from the
White House to Mombasa. As Alex
ander sighed for more worlds to con
quer, so sighs he for more jungles.
When he thinks of all the floor space
in the Smithsonian Institution that
might be filled with glass cases con
taining stuffed specimens labeled “T.
,R.” the fever comes upon him again.
| And so, we are told, he is likely to
“hit the trail” again, and put South
America once and for gll on the map.
What vast stores of peccaries, ant eat
ers, sloths and armadillos he may
bring back with him no man can tell.
The forests of the Amazon are stocked
with all sorts of strange and ferocious
beasts, who little know the fame that
awaits them in some musty museum.
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Examination For Teachers. I
The general examination will be
3 held June 13 and 14. Examinations for
r whites will be held at Furlow School
8 in Americus; for colored applicants at
colored public school building (McKay
hill).
t The books on teaching to be used
t basis for this examination, Manual of
" Methods for Georgia Teachers, Hedge’s
' ‘‘Nature Study and Life,” and Col
' grave's “The Teacher and School.”
, Examination will open Friday inorn
ing, June 13, at 8:30 o’clock. All ap
_ plicants should be on hand promptly.
v W. S. MOORE, C. S. C.
Ju4-d&w-tf
! FOR SALE
4-Room Louse, comparatively new;
irent $lO month; price SI,OOO.
6-Room house; large lot, barn; $2,-
! 500; one-fourth cash, balance easy
! payments.
;j 5-Room house close in $1,650.
j 6-Room house Jackson street, $3,-
250.
j 8 Vacant lots on line of sewerage,
; at money making prices.
! 125 acres land, miles of Americus;
', $lO acre.
100 Acres 4 miles of Americus, S4O
; acre; one-fourth cash.
500 Acres, 3 miles of Ameriucs; 400
| acres open on fine graded road; SSO
acre; one-fourth cash.
500 Acres, one mile of railroad sta
tion; 300 acre* open; 5-room house;
Iss acre.
j If you want a home, vacant lot or
j farm come to see me.
P. B. WILLIFORD
1 Office West Side Main Entrance
Windsor Hotel.
FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1913
iSUMTER COUNTY FARMERS
WHY NOT YOU?
The Editor of the Cotton
and Cotton Oil News, of
Dallas, Texas, states in his
paper that he knows of a
farmer who sold ten bales
of certified cotton to the
Southern States Cotton Cor
poration when cotton was
12c. He received $45 cash
per bale and SSO in script.
He was offered 75c on the
dollar for his script, took it
and thus received $67.50 per
bale for his cotton, or $7 50
per bale more than the mar
ket price less $1 per bale for
certification, or a net profit
over his neighbors who
sold by the old system of
$65.00. We wish to say
that no one connected with
the corporation is permitted
to dis count script at any
time. What those who hold
scrip wish to do with it is
a matter entirely beyond
the control of the corpora
tion. Mr. Farmer, don’t
delay seeing the represen
tatives of the Southern
States Cotton Corporation
in your county. List your
cotton at once.
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