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PAGE FOUR THE TIMES-RECORDER. (Incorporated.) Ever; Mwrsiag Except Monday. Daily, Per Annum |5.(Ki Weekly, P»r Annum >l9O THE AMERICUS RECORDER* 1879. THE AMERICUS TIMES Eatablisked April, 1891. FRANK T. LOiNG, Editor. Bssiavas Mai user: W. L. DUPREE. OFFICE TELEPHONE No. #'j All aukfcr 4 j tw **‘ P*y»M* i® Acl ' naea Advertising rates promptly laraißh :isi upoa application. Memorial Resolutions, Resolutions oi Respect, Obituary Notices, etc, Mhei tfean those which tie P»P» may Meens s*®9«r to publish as news mat ter, will be charged for at the rate of it s eats per line. All advertising copy requiring two columns of space or less should be In the business o»ee not later than poon of day prior to date of issue in order ts Snaar* it* prompt Insertion. All copy tor space of more than two col umns should be submitted not later than 6 o’clock of the day, two days prior to date of Issaa. OFFICIAL ORGAN 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 THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER. 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. Great ease comes from little meddl ing. , „ C* * ij F v ** * v »* if rg y / * 1 ! ITP • & % ■\\ ! j lij lime ' - |i |4; VS i * , v w *** i High t'vA *v v ' ii Time „ ;A' * " !j Don’t wait *%+*&**" j> till the lit- > \ \ ; tie pest has ? |||M j! jiis tte \vork. l | ! against ex pense,sick- """ ness and probably death by having fnnnAll 'fft. your home screened now. Phone 784 V/dllllvFll Jv* 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. [iSYOUR MONEY ! INVESTED WELL? | ; Next to having money the ' most important thing is how to ! i ’ take care of it—how best to in- ;; vest it ;; ! A Banking Institution of this |' ; kind cannot only care for your Financial Interests in a careful, ! ;; conservative way—giving you abundant banking facilities— ; but can also give you valuable ;; ! aid and advice about investments ;' I and securities. Open an account ;' !! with the : Bank ol Southwestern Georgia's Saving Department L. G. COUNCIL, l’res’t. Inc. 1831. C. M. COUNCIL, Vice Pres | H. S. COUNCIL, Cashier. | Planters Bank ot Americus Capital, Surplus and Profits $200,000 l™lfi!P Wilh ,went y years ’ e *p erience in Buc ttßjßllMill Jr ■ cessful banking, and with our large TesouTCes - and close P ersonal atten * tion to every interest consistent with jpt sound banking, we solicit your patroa {H: j Interest allowed on time certificates u -1 ' "i ::C * and in our department for savings. PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING WE WANT YCUR BUSINESS, LARGE OR SMALL MAKE OUR BANK YOUR BANK l! Be A Booster i! j t j: of Americus and home enterprizes, if ij not only by talking them but by giv- :j ing them your own business. Unless i: Americus people pull together we ;► will never make the city that we oth lerwise would. The new electric com- j; pany is a h6me enterprise and worthy of your support. Americus Power Co. | Phone No. 811 jf 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. Few women adopt children for a f»d.