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THE TIMES-RECORDER.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR:
City of Americus.
Sumter County.
Webster County.
fiailroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District.
V. S. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, Ga., January 6, 1916
♦ AROUND THE WORLD. ♦
.I&pan has a fertilizer shortage.
Sweeden is reviving copper mining.
Gambia’s principal crop is ueanuts.
Spain is a heavy .exporter of canary
seed.
Bathurst, capital of Gambia, has
IBWCi inhabitants.
Pennsylvania mines one-tenth of
She world's coal.
Bare,, Vt., has eighty-eight marble
rorking conecrns.
In New South Wales there are 100,-
more men than women.
There are 6,615,805 orange and 941,-
®OO lemon trees in California.
The Alps contain at least 230 glac
»rs over five miles in length.
"{even thousand women practice
medicine in the United States.
Colorado now has 64,385 pupils en
wlled in 1725 school districts.
Ottawa will soon start the use of
waccum street-cleaning machinery.
Gambia, West Africa, has an area of
3G19 square miles and a population of
146,101.
More than 4,500,000 gray squirrels
were killed last year in Siberia for
their fur.
E. F. Davis, state executioner, has
executed 180 persons in New York
State prisons.
India’s financial difficulties have
caused serious embarrassment to the
pearl market.
Telephone lines are to be extended
to Tromsoe, Norway, 200 miles north
the Artic Circle.
The railway that will link Greece
with the rest of Europe is expected to
be completed in August.
Trans-Caucasia and Cis Caucasia
tiaev an area of 180.603 square miles
a.nd a population of 12,060,000.
The opening of the National Expo
sition of Panama has been postponed,
stfe time until January 21, 1916.
Haihria is common in India, and
©iie-sixth of the world’s supply of
uninrne is consumed in that country
According to a German medical au-
fifteen minutes' exposure to
sun's rays during an airshoip
y':'. feft high attitudes will kill all
L-.' " ■r.-.:'-/ man's
B Cioffi £
THE APPOINTMENTS.
The county is to be commended on
the appointments of Lucius Harvey as
sheriff to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Sheriff Q. W. Fuller, and
the naming of R. E. Price, as deputy;
sheriff to fill the position of Mr. Har-j
vey.
The act of Captain John A. Cobb,
ordinary of the county ,in naming Mr. I
Harvey as sheriff is in keeping with
the admirable state of affairs of the
office. For several months Mr. Harvey
had conducted many of the affairs of
the office, because of Mr. Fuller’s ill
ness and because of his familiarity
and excellent qualities as a sheriff the
appointment is to be commended.
No announcement has been made as
Io a special election, but it is believed
that Mr. Harvey will be a candidate
for re-election, and he will be warmly
supported by many friends throughout
tbe county.
DEMAND FOR SKILLED LABOR.
The need of industrial training is
emphasized by demanls originating
from all sections of the country from
.establishments that are finding them
selves face to face with greater un
dertakings than they can cope with
under present arrangements. Discus
sing this important efature of Ameri
can life a prominent authoritly said
recently:
“The frank truth about this
matter of employment centers in
the fact that the management of
the concerns in question is not
acquainted with the immensity of
the work it has in hand and con
sequently is willing to pay the
highest price for capable skilled
men as operatives and managers.”
There is practically unlimited pos
sibilities in every endeavor for men
who are able and willing to do things.
The South as a whole, is recognizing
the importance of such facts and
there is a tendency of laudible nature
being manifested by many of the
sterling young men of every part of
the cotton belt to take hold of the im
portant and vital matters and learn
them, even in the most intricate de
tails, so as to become factors in the
development of their own sections.
The development of latent resources
can never be accompanied without
men to do it, and if they are not to be
obtained from the home community
they will have to come from else
where, or else the resources will re
main dormant. Here is where an im
portant question confronts the people
of this section of the South. The time
is virtually at hand when no oppor
tunity will be allowed to pass unheed
ed and from somewhere will! come
somebody who will seize the advant
ages offered, and reap a harvest.
The matter of education and train
ing—the right kind—is of utmost im
portance to the present • generation,
more so to the future generations, and
it is a sacred! duty, incumbent upon
the thoughtful people of this day to
see that every possible provision is
made for utilizing the opportunities
of today for the geratest possible good
that may come from their develop
ment in years on ahead.—Augusta
Chronicle.
THE HEWSPIPEB TALK |
While the colonel criticizes Presi
dent Wilson so freely for what he
does and for what he fails to do as
well, the rest of us have more cause 1
every day to be thankful that it is
Wilson and not Roosevelt who is pres
ident during these critical times.—
Albany Herald.
Uncle Sam ought to be happy. When
he balances up his books for the year
1915 tomorrow night, he will find that
he has has to his credit the largest
trade balance in the history of the na
tion.—Brunswick News.
It is possibly denied that everybody
«as killed on the peace ship while it
was going across the pond. Henry
managed to keep everybody from
blows, even if they didn't control their
t< ngu-s.—Thomasville Times.
If they’d enact some prohibitory
laws on pistol toting as drastic as
the “licker” bill ’twould do a heap o’
good.—Statesboro News.
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THE AMERICUS DAILY
The Public
Safety Valve
Editor Times-Recorder:
Having read your news item yester
day on “A Market Needed,” I am writ
ing to add what little weight I can to
what you have said. It does seem to
one who has some of the crops such
as sweet potatoes, corn, hay, oats, hogs
and the like farm products for sale
that the one greatest thing needed to
bring about diversification of crops in
preparation for conditions that we
know we shall soon have to face, is a
grown these other things we will have
to face soon, is a definite assurance
that when we have grown these other
things we will have a market for them.
We do not hesitate to say that w.e feel
that this is one of the greatest needs
right here in Americus, for the farm
ers adjacent to your town. As a farm
er, if I have some of these crops to
sell as the conditions are about one -
lead of corn will fill the market needs '
here, but if there not a need for more
corn here?
If we had enough farmers and bus
iness men who would work together
there could be what might be term
ed an exchange for farm crops through
which the local market could be sup
plied as well as to find markets for
the surplus not needed on the local
market diversification can be preach
ed indefinitely, and we believe in di
versification, but it can be preached
forever but until the farmer can be
assured that he can get the money to
meet past due obligations, as well as
to have funds on hand to meet run
ning expenses the farmer will be still
found planting cotton right on until
the boll weevil makes it so no more
can be grown.
It cannot be said that no one is in
terested for in the last few days sev
eral farmers have been heard to say
that nothing is needed here more, that
it will do as much to draw trade for
Americus as anything that could be
dene, and it certainly will insure the
practice of diversification of crops
when it is known that there is a cer
tain place that these crops can be
carried and the market price received
for them when they are delivered. This
problem needs solving. It needs to be
solved right now and right here. It is
now alone the farmers' resposibility,
but it is the responsibility of the busi
ness man, perhaps, a little more than
it is that of the farmer, and individ
ually I feel that it may never be real
ized until the business interests get
in behind it. Let’s have the local ar
rangement for finding a market for
other things that can be grown on the
farm. Keep up your agitation.
Then, Mr. Farmer and Mr. Business
Man, remember the boll weevil is as
sure to reach us as death and taxes.
Give us a farmers’ exchange (cash
n arket) for other crops and diversifi
cation will come about immediatelf.
De n’t let’s wait, as some sections have
done, until we are forced out, before
the definite effort is made to estab
-luh this market. Please give us the
exchange. a FARMER.
After a controversy lasting ten
.years, it has been decided in France
[that the use of old corks in wine bot
tles is not detrimental to health.
At the end of last June there were I
’ -0 amaeur wireless telegraph oper
otors licensed by the United States
Government, and the ranks have been
materially increased since then.
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ANOTHER WEEK OF
DEVELOPMENT IN DIXIE
COLUMBUS, Ga., Jan. 6.—-The In
unstrial Index says in its issue for this
week:
“hTe early rays of the rising sun of
the New Year send a golden promise
tiiroughout a business firmament
fiom which the clouds of depression
have disappeared and illuminate a
sweeping activity that is prophetic of
unmeasured prosperity.
“The situation is vastly different to
what it was a year ago. Then, with
the rising of the sun behind all-envel
oping clouds, business activity, a pris
oner and well-nigh paralyzed, listened
for the tramp of the firing squad.
“The conditions have changed won
derfully. The war, which brought the
depression, was the first cause of bus
iness revival. Orders from abroad be
gan to accumulate and to multiply.
There was a wonderful demand fo
products of many kind, and the values
of the country’s exports were swelled
to the greatest sums in our history.
This section began to raise food pro
ducts at home, and here, as elsewhere,
a return to prosperity was begun at a
steadly pace. Factories are in opera
tion everywhere. Bank clearings are
increasing literally by leaps and
bounds. Everywhere there is activity
and improvement.
“And in all the vastly improved sit
uation, there is nothing more favor
able or encouraging than the fact that
people are expecting prosperity, 'be
lieving that their expectations are w.ell
founded.
“There was no way of estimating
how far down into depression the war
in Europe might send business in this
country. The great change in condi
tions so works also that there is no
way of measuring the height of the
prosperity that will come.
A great sugar refinery is to be es
tablished in Savannah, Ga., by a com
pany with capital stock of $3,500,000,
sugar refiners of national reputation
and Eastern capitalists who have large
investments in the South being inter
bested .
“Contracts have been awarded by
Miami, Fla., for dock construction and
harbor improvement at an aggregate
cost of $398,508.
“Tampa, Fla., has awarded a con
tract for street paving at an approxi
mate cost of $300,000.
“Railroad extensions are to be built
in eastern Georgia, and in southern
Georgia.
“Columbia, S. C., sold $500,000 of im
provement bonds and Jacksonville,
Fla., $250,000, both sales having been
at substantial premiums.
“A total of 56 corporations have been
formed with minimum capital stocks.
“Among the items of construction
work to be done are:
“Apartment houses, Clarksdale, Miss.,
and Greenville, S. C.; bridges, Miami,
Fla.; church buildings, Bainbridge, Ga.,
addition. Griffin, Ga., and Piedmont
ai.d Sulligent, Ala.; clubhouse, Moul
trie, Ga.; factory building, Orlando,
Fla.; fraternal buildings, Clayton, Ala.,
and Orlando. Fla.; paving, Griffin, Ga.,
end Lakeland and Tampa, Fla., library
building, Ocala, Fla.; gargages, Con
yers, Ga., and Robertdale, Ala.; sewer
Seaboard Air Line
he Progressive Railway ot tbe South
Leave Americus for Cordele, Ro
chelle, Abbeville, Helena, Lyons, Col
lins, Savannah, Columbia, Richmond.
Portsmouth and points East and South.
12-J3l p in
2:30 a m
Leave Americus for Cordele, Abbe-
Hie. Helena and intermediate pcinta
5:15 p m
Leave Americus for Richland, At
e.nta, Birmingham, Hurtsboro, Mont
I ornery and points West and North west
3:10 p in
Leave Americus for Richland, Col
umbus, Dawson, Albany and interme
liate points
10:05 t> tn
Seaboard Buffet Parlor-Sleeping Car
m Trains 13 and 14, arriving America!
from Savannah 11:25 p. m., and leav
ing Americus for Savannah 2:30 a. m
Bleeping car leaving for Savannah at
2:30 a. m., will be open for passen
gers at 11:25 p _i.
For further information apply to H.
P. Everett, Local Agent, Americus,
Ta.; C. W. SmaL, Div. Pass., Agent,
’avannah, Ga.; C. B. Rvan, P p. A_
/cifolk, Va.
system, Key West, Fla.; school build
ings, Bavley, Ga., and Sumter, S. C.;
waterworks systems, Clarksdalle,
Miss., and Cullman, Ala. Arrangements
are being perfected for beginning con
struction of eight-story hotel building
of Miami, Fla., and of hospital build
ings, at Macon, Ga.
“Construction contracts have been
awarded as follows:
“Apartment house, Birmingham,
Ala.; bridge, Dallas county Alabama;
church building, Florence, S. C.; fac
tory buildings, Huntsville, Ala., and
Lakeland, Fla.; paving, Birmingham,
Ala.; school building, Larkins, Fla.;
sewers, Pensacola, Fla.; roads, Lee
county, Alabama, and Hinds county,
Mississippi; -waterworks system, Lake
land, Fla.
“Industrial plants will be establish
ed as follows:
“Barrel factory, Savannah, Ga.;
candy factory enlargement, Augusta,
Ga.; fertilizer plant to be improved.
Macon, Ga.; electric service plant,
Sumner, Miss.; lumber plants, Brom
ley, Fla., and Mcßae, Ga.; peanut oil
mill, Edison, Ga.; electric railway ex
tension, Clearwater ,Fla., and exten
sion, Miami, Fla.”
Fifteen Fined
For Speeding In
Bainbridge
BAINBRIDGE, Ga., Jan. 6.—Fifteen
prominent Bainbridge people were
called into police court her.e today
and fined for speeding. Mayor Calla
han has declared war on the speeders
and arrests for reckleess driving have
been numerous. As this was the first
time many of the autoists had oeen in
court in Bainbridge, they were let off
with fines of $5.00 and promises of a
considerably stiffer one, if they are
hailed before his honor again.
MUST QUIT EATING
CROP BEFORE MADE
South Must Stop Time-Honored Sys
tem Os Economic Suicide,
Says H. G. Hastings
Atlanta., Ga. —(Special.)—“The peo
ple of the south must quit eating their
cotton or other so-called 'cash crop'
before it is made if they ever expect
to accumulate wealth and have the
comforts and luxuries of life due
them,” says H. G. Hastings, agricul
tural vice president of the Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce, and a fore
most authority on farm conditions in
the southeast.
“The south must stop forever its
time-honored system of economic sui
cide,” says Mr. Hastings. “Advance
steps were made last year toward a
condition of farm independence in the
Cotton Belt. They were forced steps,
it is true, but they marked an advance
just the same, and more bread and
meat, more grain, forage and other
food and feed stuffs were made in
1915 than ever before, with the result
there are tens of thousands of farm
ers better off than in past years,
despite short crops and business de
pression.
“With higher cotton prices, it is
going to be a great temptation to
drop back into the old habit of put
ting cotton, or whatever other cash
crop one may be growing, in pawn
for bread and meat. We are suffer
ing today from the old system forc
ed on us by conditions following the
Civil war, necessary then, but unnec
essary now.
“Year after year we have stayed in
the same old rut as a matter of habit, |
eating our crops, so to speak, before |
they were made, a financially suicidal j
policy for the farmer, each year put
ting his nose a little closer to the
credit grindstone.
“If the south had not been so rich
in natural resources, this system
would have bankrupted us long ago.
What's the answer? It is home pro
duction by each farmer of every dol
lar’s worth of food and grain supplies
needed on his farm that it is possi
ble to grow on his own acres. This
means good big home gardens; hogs,
chickens, cows and something to feed
them on through the year.”
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money on farm lands in Sumter
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