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THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN for City of Americus, Sumter County, Webster County,
Railroad Commission of Georgia for Third Congressional District, U. S. Ceurt,
Southern District of Georgia.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 11, 1915
LETS HAVE A WHITE WAY
Americus has passed the village stage and is now a thriving pros
perous city with a future. Americus citizens are building for the future.
The city has adopted the slogan “20,000 by 1920” and is pushing forward
toward the goal. Municipal improvements are things that must accom
pany a city as it grows. A city must beautify ®d modernize itself to
keep pace with its growth.
Americus has long needed a “white way” in the business section. The
time has come to act and provide a “white way” for Americus. The city
will not be satisfied with antequated lighting methods any more.
Let’s get busy and make this “white way” a reality. We have been
saying “Wait till the light question is settled." And it is settled, so there
is no excuse for further delay.
Well-lighted streets, brightly lighted show windows and good electric
signs are three of the most necessary features for a successful business
district. The trio can be relied upon to bring trade and prosperity to anv
business thoroughfare. Much of the immense volume of business done
during daylight hours is inspired by the signs and displays seen during
evening hours.
The evening throngs in the business section are the next day’s shop
pers. The impression made by the displays in the show windows and the
advertising influence of the electric signs and other lighted signs are
many times stronger than can be made in the daylight when people are
preoccupied with the day’s business cares and worried with street noises,
the hustle and bustle of street traffic.
The handicap under which merchants of the early part of the nine
teenth century labored is shown by the following editorial from a news
paper printed in Germany hbout one hundred years ago:
"The illumination of streets at night is objectionable for the follow
ing reasons:
“1. From the theological standpoint; artificial illumination is an
attempt to interfere with the divine plan of the world which has preor
dained darkness during night time.
“2. From the judicial standpoint; those people who do not -want
light ought not to be compelled to pay for its use.
“3. From the medical standpoint; the emanations of illuminating
gas are injurious. Moreover, illuminated streets would induce people to
remain later out of doors, leading (o an increase in ailments caused by
colds.
"4. From the moral standpoin.; the fear of darkness will vanish
and drunkness and depravity increase.
“5. From the viewpoint of the police; the horses will get frightened
and the thieves emboldened.
“6. From the viewpoint of national economy; great sums of money
will be exported to foreign countries.
“7. From the viewpoint of the common people; the constant illum
ination of streets by night will rob festive illuminations of their charm.
If the writer of the above could but walk down the main street of any
live city or town, tonight, his poor old point of view would be an awful
jolt, but he certainly had the right idea when he said that —
“Illuminated streets would induce people to remain out of doors. ’
He was a man who knew something about the traits of the people. He
had an inkling of the attraction that lighted streets would prove to be.
The correctness of his idea is shown by the fact that it is said that
Broadway with its “White Lights" draws more people to New Y’ork than
all the city parks, libraries, museums, etc. The lights have made it
world famous, the most talked of street in the western hemisphere and
its lights are the street lights, electric signs and window lights. Each
of the three helps the other. The street lights attract people to the sec
tion; the electric signs cause certain buildings to tsand out from the oth
ers and window lighting draws attention to the goods displayed.
The electric signs and window lights can not exert al lthe attractive
influence in getting crowds to a certain section; the electric sign, if lo
cated at such a height that it can be seen at a distance, will attract at
tention and serve as an excellent advertisement but it can not be counted
on for illuminating the street. The show window lighting has no long
distance pull. It can only attract those who are in the immediate neigh
borhood, so the street lights must serve as the magnet to pull people from
dimilv lighted districts to the White Light section.
Street lights, then draw people to the illuminated section; electric
signs to the building and good window lighting to the merchandise. So
good street lighting pays big dividends. It attracts business, increases
real estate values and stimulates civic pride. When a street is well
• lighted, brightly illuminated show windows follow as a matter of course,
for the wide-awake merchants flock to such a street and naturally bright
en up their show windows to be in harmony with the thoroughfare.
Electric signs spring up, for the men who locate on a bright street
are of the type who realize the advertising value of the electric sign.
Wherever the development of a town or city has been slow will be found
a poorly lighted business section. The city will have a gloomy and prob
ably a dirty, unattractive aspect.
On the other hand, the city that has made rapid strides will be found
to be sparkling with countless lights and a clean attractive appearance.
Light and lack of it are responsible for the differences in development.
Hundreds of cities and towns can testify as to the efficacy of good lighting
Many of them have been put up on the map and started on the road to
prosperity by the installation of an ornamental street lighting system.
That is pays to advertise is true of a city as well as of a business. A well
lighted city is a standing advertisement for itself. The White Way is
Right Way to attract business.
. WHAT IS WAR?
(From St. Louis Globe-Democrat.)
William Mather Lewis, secretary of the Navy League of the United
States, made a very interesting address before the City Club on Friday.
His address was interesting not only, or mainly, because of his expert
knowledge of the subject with which he was dealing, but most of all, we
think, because the evidence of this knowledge by him, as by many an
other expert, again raises the question, in many inquiring minds, of
what war is. We are tempted to widen the question and ask what war
ought to be, but fear of perennial peace advocates restrains us. Reduc
ing the question to the singular number, we may be permitted to ask, of
all who insist upon indefinite enlargements in the number of present-day
fighting appliances: What is war?
War until now has always been a state of armed conflict between
men. As it is now being waged, and, as, according to the experts, it
must always continue to be waged, it is a conflict between machines, with
armies of men surrounding the machines, not only to serve them, and op
erate them against an enemy, but, as it might well seem, to serve only as
targets for these enemies, equally well equipped with life-destroying
machinery. There would seem to be a mutual sense of accommodation in
this respect, each of the contending forces digging ditches which take on
the proportions of rivers in their length, in which it holds its troops, and
above which there is an almost constant rain of shells, shrapnel and oth
er sorts of death-dealing missels, projected put of an enemy’s machines
several miles away. There is, of course, a return in kind, and in ditches
which are being decimated by machine fire there may be the grim satis
faction of feeling that the opposition ditches are being decimated at an
equal rate. The mortality is frightful on all sides. But mortality is only
the bodily side of war. It is not its soul and spirit. In wars between
men, soldiers were to be made proud of themselves and of their own val
orious achievements. In automatic slaughter houses, soldiers can be
proud of nothing more than the claimed seperiority of the machinery on
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their side.
Mr. Lewis told the City Club that the great guns now mounted «n
United States fortifications can fire heavy and highly destructive projec
tiles a distance of one and three-quarter miles offshore. But what would
these be worth, he .asked, against heavy guns in a hostile fleet which
lying a mile and a half outside of their farthest range, could bombard the
* fortifications and have the guns themselves dismantled before even an at
tempt could be made to use them. A question naturally arising here is
what would be the use of trying to use mile-and-three-quarter range
guns against others with more than a three-mile range. The answer of
Mr. Lewis was equally natural, from his point of view. It was that we
must mount guns with as long a range as any enemy could possiblf com
mand. And we must put guns on our battleships capable of carrying as
many miles as any on any battleship in the world. There would be a
frightful mortality, of course, but it would be a machine mortality. And
in so far as it would surely fall short of the glory of grappling hooks and
boarding, w r ith navy pistols and cutlasses, it would fall short of the soul
of war and the souls of men who have always made war. It i$ men who
make war and not machines. Machines can make shoes. They can make
hats. They can even, of late, blow glass into many beautiful shapes and
forms. But though they are now making war, we are willing to venture
a prediction that they will never make another. For war is so essentially
human that it must have a soul and spirit, and there is neither soul nor
spirit in a thing of iron which does its work with no more enthusiasm
than does that thing or iron which cuts shoe pegs in a great factory.
Should the world continue preparing to war with machines we might
have, perforce, to continue with it. But the world will not so continue.
Should rulers insist upon continuing machine wars the world might reach
the point of saying that, if they want to fight with machines, they them
selves must work the levers and press the buttons. Then we would see
the possibility of realizing that dream of the old song which ran.
All the world should be at peace,
And if kings would prove their might,
Let those who make the quarrels
Be the only ones to fight.
Granston Williams who is filling the editorial shoes of his father “Jim
Williams” of the Grensboro Herald L Journal, while the pater is having an
attack of smallpox, heads his editorial column this week with thi3 straight
forward instruction to Grjen county farmers: “Raise hogs wffiile the
kaiser is raising h—l.”
So anxious was Gov. Blease, of South Carolina to empty the state peni
tentiary, he issued a pardon to a negro woman two years after her death,
e idently without inquiring into her record, just before he retired from of
fice. The negress was Anna Drummond, of Spartenburg, who killed her
husband three years ago and died in the county jail soon aftr? she was
sentenced to a life term in the state penitentiary.
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Pearls are said to be selling for half price on account of the war,
but it is as hard to teach the oyster to diversify its crop as it is to con
vince the Southern cotton planter of the wisdom of this great economic
principle.
W. J. Bryan is quoted as saying that every newspaper man should
own the newspaper he writes for. But there are not newspapers enougn
to go round.
The fact that several of the ten commandments are officially sus
pended during the time of war does not prevent expressions of strong
religious sentiments by leaders of nations engaged in hostilities.
January is over and prohibition year’s record i« one of the best yet
made by the water wagon.
“Will civilization endure?” asks a contemporarj’. Well, enduring
seems to be its long suit at present. t,
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THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES RECORDER
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Legal Advertisements
Sheriff's .Sale.
GEORGIA—Sumter County.
Will be sold before the court-house
door, between the legal hours of sale,
on the first Tuesday in March, 1915,
the following described real estate to
wit: Lots of land Nos. 11 and 12, in
the 27th district, and lot No. 244, in
the 29th district of Sumter county, Ga.,
each of said lots containing 202 1-2
acres more or less, aggregating 607 1-2
acres more or less, and known as the
old Weavers home place on the Amer
icus and Andersonville road. Levied
on as the property of S. C. Kelley to
satisfy a City Court fi-fa in favor'of
W. B. Worthey, administrator of the
estate of Mrs. Nellie Worthey..
This 2nd day of Feburary, 1915.
Q. W. FULLER, Sheriff.
4 11 18 25
GEORGIA —Sumter County.
Will be sold before the court-house
door on the first Tuesday in March,
1915, between the legal hours of sale,
the fololwing described' property, to
wit: The north half of lot of land No.
172, in the 27th District of Sumter
county, Ga., containing 101 1-4 acres,
more or less, and bounded as follows:
On the North by the Danville road, on
the East by Mary Moreland and L. D.
Smith, on the South by D. Crockett,
and on the West by Dr. J. W. Hughley
and Mrs McAlister, except one acre in
the Northeast corner owned by Mary
Moreland, leaving 100 1-4 acres, more
or less, being the property conveyed
by said Leonard Smith to the Union
Central Life Insurance Co., on the 30th
day of June, 1911, by deed recorded
July 10, 1911, in Deed Book K K, pagj
350 of Sumter Superior Court. Said
property levied on as the property of
Leonard Smith to satisfy fl fa in favor
of the Union Central Life Insurance
Co. Tenant in possession notified in
terms of the law. This Feb. 3, 1915.
Q. W. FULLER, Sheriff.
4 11 18 25
GEORGIA —Webster County.
To all whom it may Concern:
Notice is hereby given, that the ap
praisers appointed to set apart and
assign a year’s support to Mrs. Lillie
Troutman and minor children, the
widow and minor children of Aaron C.
Troutman, deceased, have filed their
award, and unless good and sufficient
cause is shown, the same will be made
the judgment of the Court at the
March term, 1915, of the Court of
Ordinary.
This January 27th, 1915.
J. R. STAPLETON,
Ordinary Webster County.
4 11 18 25
Citation.
GEORGIA —Sumter County.
To all whom it may Concern:
John F. McMath having appried for
guardianship of the person and prop
erty of Wm. M. McMath, an aged and
infirmed person of said County, notice
is given that said application will be
heard at my office, at 10 o’clock A. M.,
on the first Monday in March next.
This Feb. 3rd, 1915.
JOHN A. COBB,
Ordinary and ex-officio Clerk C. 0.
GEORGIA —Webster County.
Whereas, H. A. Cook, Administrator
of W. R. Holms, represents to the
Court in his petition, duly filed and
entered on record, that he has fully
administered W. R. Holmes estate:
This is, therefore, to cite all persons
concerned, kindred and creditors, to
show cause, if any they can, why said
Administrator should not be discharg
ed from his administration, and re
ceive Letters of Dismission on the
first Monday in March, 1915.
J. R. STAPLETON,
Ordinary Webster County.
4 11 18 25
Libel for Divorce.
Jury Clark vs. Mary Clark. —In Sum
ter Superior Court —Returnable to
the May Term.
To Mary Clark: You are hereby re
quired personally or by an attorney
to be and appear at the Superior Court
to be holden for the County of Sumter
on the Fourth Monday in May, 1915, to
answer petitioner’s complaint, as in
default thereof the court will proceed
as to justice shall appertain.
Witness the Honorable Z. A. Little
john, Judge of said Court, this the
4th day of February, 1915.
S. R. HEYS,
Deputy Clerk Superior Court.
Lest Common.
Willie—" Paw, is the truth stranger
than fiction?” Paw—“ Well, it is more
of a stranger than Action, my son."
Sheriff s Sale.
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Insurance And Surety Bonds.
Specialty—Autos at 2 per cent
PLANTERS BANK BLDG. Phone No. 186
MONEY LOANED
We make farm loans at 6 per cent interest and
give the borrower the privilege of paying part of
principal at end of any year, stopping interest
on amounts paid, but no annual payment of
principal required.
G.R. ELLIS or G.C. WEBB
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s sistant Cotton Seed—both “Dixie”
and “Lewis 63”, the very latest se
t lections and improvements by the
[Department of Entomologv—which
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with order.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1915