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THE TIMES-RECORDER.
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G. IL ELLIS,
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Editor and General Manager.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR:
City of Americus.
Sumter County.
Webster County.
Maflroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District.
U. S. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, G;u, February 9, 1916
Where were you last night?
Judge Landis is now made an au
thority on baseball.
AU n.ust admit the footwora of the
Wn«ians is excellent.
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It is thoroughly possible for one to
ffie of laughter—at you.
The age of duelling seems to have
Seen revived hereabouts.
If it wasn’t for the Balkins there’d
fce little war news on somedays.
February gives you one more day of
grace than the average month of its
Bind.
There are many things we could
write about—but different things pre
heats.
The days may grow longer or short
er—but the length of this column nev
er changes.
Some folks are less accustomed to
truth than fiction which makes it such
a stranger.
The man who writes the war con
tracts surpasses the man who writes
Ske war songs.
I. Seldum Wash could be the name of
■sane folks —but it happens to apply to
* St Louis insurance man.
$1 .35 is the value of an American
dollar in Berlin. A whole American’s
We in Mexico is not worth that much.
Levi Red Owl, of Kyle, South Dakota,
has been married to Miss Sadie Whirl
had. Yes, sewing the wind and reap-
Stt gthe Whirlwind.
It’s true that there are three ways to
* man’s heart—one through his vanity,
«e through his imagination and one
straight over his obstinacy.
President Wilson would do well to
visit Georgia, and some folks would
Kfce to she how he looks. This was a
eamping ground for Teddy and Taft.
ft was said that the United States
officials were completely at sea over
lhe disposition of the Appam. After
ttw boat got in something had to go to
sea.
From the diary of a friend: “How
glorious is the free life of a bachelor!
How boundless are his possibilities!
How delightful to dwell alone in a
Mcfielor apartment!”
Add to the list of distracting noiseb:
•'Dis here’s de cook at de telephone.
De Missis say de coals is all ’sausted
an’ for you to sen’ up ernuther ton
right away, ’cause re fire’s gittin’ low
an' de babl’s done sneezed ’wice. Right
away, please, sir!”—Albany Herald.
THE BOND ISSUE.
The Mayor and City Council atthe’r
regular meeting Tuesday night, or
dered a bond election to be held for the
city on March 15th, the purpose being
to vote bonds to the amount of $30,-
000 for the improvements of streets of
the city.
It would be needless to explain and
mention the present financial condition
of the city, as the people are sufficient
ly informed as to realize the necessity
of funds for carrying on all branches
c-f the work of the city until remedies
and changes can be made.
It is hoped that the people of Ameri
cus will vote favorably on the issu
ance of bonds. It will be a means of
providing money at a reasonably low
rate of interest, and under terms and
conditions which could not be borrow
ed by the city to its own best interest.
As was stated in the Titn>es-Re
corder when the question was first
broached, the columns of this paper
are thrown open for a discussion of
this matter to any reasonable extent.
The business of the city of Americus
is the business of every citizen and
every taxpayer.
There is no excuse for any one to
be ignorant on this subject, and when
the day of election comes every voter
should go to the polls well informed
on the subject, and capable of casting
a ballot which he considers for the
best interest of the city.
THE MALARIA PROBLEM.
Four per cent of the inhabitants of
certain sections of the South- have ma
laria. This estimate, based on the re
porting of 204,881 cases during 1914.
has led the United States Public Health
Service to give increased attention to
the malaria problem, according to the
annual report of the Surgeon General
Os 13,526 blood specimens examined by
Government officers during the year,
J. 797 showed malarial infection. The
infection rates among white persons
was above eight per cent, and among
colored persons twenty per cent. In
two counties in the Yazoo Valley, 40
out of every 100 inhabitants presented
evidence of the disease.
Striking as the above figures are they
are more remarkable than those relat
ing to the reduction in the incidence of
the disease following surveys of the
Public Health Service at 34 places in
nearly every state of the South. In
some instances from an incidence of
fifteen per cent, in 1914, a reduction
has been accomplished to less than
four or five per cent, in 1915.
One of the important sientific dis
coveries made during the year was in
regard to the continuance of the dis
ease from season to season. Over 2.-
000 Anopheline mosquitoes in malar
ous sections were dissected, during the
parly spring months, without finding a
single infected insect, and not until
(May 15, 1915, was the first parasite in
the body of a mosquito discovered. The
Public Health Service, therefore, con
cludes that mosquitoes in the latitude
of the Southern States ordinarily do
rot carry the infection through the
winter. This discovery indicates that
protection from malaria may be secur
ed by treating human carriers w'ith
quinine previous to the middie of May,
thus preventing any infection from
chronic sufferers reaching mosquitoes
ai.d being transmitted by them to oth
er persons.
Although quinine remains the best
means of treating malaria and is also
of marked benefit in preventing infec
tion, the eradication of ths disease as
a whole rests upon the destruction of
the breeding places of Anopheline
mosquitoes. The Public Health Ser
vice .therefore, is urging a definite
campaign of draining standing water,
the filling of low places, and the re
grading and training of streams where
malarial mosquitoes breed. The oiling
of breeding places, an dthe stocking
of streams with top-feeding minnows,
are further recommended. The Service
| also gives advice regarding screening,
and other preventive measures as a
part of the educational campaign con
ducted in sections of infected terri
tory.
This study is typical of the scien
tific investigations which are being
carried out by the Public Health Ser
vice. all of which have a direct bear
ing on eradicating the disease. The
THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMtS-RECORDER
THE MOHR CASE.
Because everybody has become ac
customed to a verdict of acquittal in
cases where women are charged with
killing men there is no surprise that
Mrs. Elizabeth Mohr was found not
guilty, at Providence, R. 1., of the
charge of hireing three negroes to kill
her husband, Dr. C. Franklin Mohr.
And there is no surprise that a verdict
of "guilty” was returned in the cases
of Brown and Spellman, two of the
negroes; the third, George Healis,
having pleaded guilty to manslaughter
and become a witness for the state.
The strongest evidence against the de
fendants was furnished by Healis, and
the jury apparently accepted it as it
related to Brown and Spellman, but
rejected it as it realted to Mrs. Mohr.
It always is difficult to answer ac
curately the question of how far a jury
in such a case as this, may be affected
by the sex of the defendant, by the ap
pearance of her child or children on
the witness stand in her defense, and
by evidence that the man who was
slain was not as good as he might have
been. Dr. Mohr’s life was not painted
in bright colors for the jury and his
treatment of his wife, in so far as was
unpleasant, was not hidden. There
were skeletons in the Mohr closet and
they all were paraded before the jury.
Her appearance as a witness and the
story of illtreatment she told, and the
appearance and evidence of her manly
little son naturally created an impres
snon favorable to her and may go far
towards .explaining how it was that of
theree deefndants she alone was de
clared to be innocent of the crime
charged against them jointly.
Juries seem to draw a line very
sharply between cases in which ver
dicts of “guilty” may be expected to be
returned and those in which verdicts
of “not guilty” may be expected, w’hen
women are on trial. If a woman kills
another woman, or a man and a wom
an, or conspires with another man,
who has entered her home to shatter
its happiness, to kill her husband, the
tendency is towards conviction; but
when a woman is charged with bring
ing about the death of her husband,
who deceived or ill-treated her in
other ways, or if she kills a lover, the
tendency is towards acquittal. Ameri
can juries, like French juries, do not
seem to be willin gto cause women to
be punished who have suffered ill
treatment at the hands of the other
sex and have avenged themselves by
taking life.—Savannah Morning News.
THE IMSfIfEI TIH |
Os course there are exceptions, but
as a rule, if you haven’t got a receipt
ycu owe the money.—Butler Herald.
What has become of the old-gash
ioned boy who tore up his sister’s silk
hese to gake a kite tail?—Lumpkin In
dependent.
The Valdosta Times says the ground
bog is a myth. Soon we may expec*
Lc.wndes county to deny there is a
Santa Claus.—Savannah Press.
According to the edicts of fashion,
the ladies are going to wear shrapnel
bonnets this spring. The explosion
will result when the bills come in.—
Griffin News and Sun.
If more folks knew as much about
their own business as they know about
other people’s, the bankrupt courts
would have to go into bankruptcy.—
Monroe Advertiser.
Ch, those luscious governmental cot
ton seed, spiced with such seeds as car
rct, lettuce, muskmelon, onion and to
i mato, ought to make broth that yould
pull an ordinary Epicurian to shame.—
Butler Herald.
In Tattnall county the Democratic
nominee for office must make affidavit
that he has not used any liquo- during
hi 3 campaign. They are in for a dry
spring up there.—Savannah Press.
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malaria work now includes the collec
tion of morbidity data, malaria sur
veys, demonstration work, scientific
field and laboratory studies, education
al campaigns, and special studies of
impounded water and drainage pro
jects.
On the Level
By C. W.
Are you striving like a man?
People know!
Doing just the best you can?
People know!
Think you’re not appreciated
Thing you’e underestimated?
J’ouf! They’ve got you tagged and
rated!
People know!
Are you going “on a bluff?”
People know!
Is your color white or “buff?”
People know!
Think you’ve kept it under cover?
Well—“though pigs may dwell in
clover”
Do they really “put it over?”
People know!
Are you false—or are you true?
People know!
Are you happy—are you blue?
People know!
Paint the faded cheek a rose,
Hide the heart beneath the pose!
Do you think it really “goes?”
People know!
Are you “up”—or “down-and-out?”
People know!
Though you fling your cash about
Like the snow,
Boast your yacht and motor car—
But, be sure that what you ARE —
Just a rocket—or a star,
People know!
Are you weak—or are you strong?
People know!
Going right—or going wrong?
People know'!
Have you got a streak of umber?
Well—reserve your dreams for slum
ber,
EVERYBODY’S got your “number!”
People know!
Recompense.
"Tie life he leads is rather punk,
An outcast, as it were,
But later on the lowly skunk
Ranks pretty high as fur.
—Kansas City Journal.
“Love cannot die.”
“Maybe not. But sometimes it gets
a trifle bilious.”—Kansas City Journal.
Down With ’Em.
There are lots of guys
(We’d like to killem)
Who call the blooming
Thing a “fillem.”
—Macon Telegraph.
And there’s another,
What of him.
Wh o persistently
Calls it a “flm”?
—Cartersville News.
A fellow that we know
Calls movies still,
And, maybe, always will,
"The picture show.”
At one time it was thought that the
collector of this colyum might be able
to get by with his second installment
.of the re-debut without resorting to
poetry, but as long as the lines are
short—and still they consume a line, it
was deemed best that this means be
used.
Just a little tip on the side—the Elks
are planning some big, rolling time
for their state convention m Americus
on April 27th and 28th. If you are not
an Elk you want to make arrangements
to be an dstay in the city during the
sessions—we want you to help the big
times along. It’ll be one glorious oc
casion.
Th? police reporter slipped a story
by the editor relating the meagre inci
dents of one altercation on Lee street
several nights ago, bordering on a
duel. The facts are somewhat limited,
and the article in question speaks for
itself. (And the circulation manager
requested us to remind you that you
need have no worries about the Times-
Recorder being read—for everybody
saw that article, and wanted to know
something about it.)
Try a WANT AD in the Times-Re
corder. They pay big dividends
INTEREST GOOO
IN BIG MEETING
HELD IN ATLANTA
ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 9.—Unusual in
terest is being manifested generally
throughout Georgia in the approaching
manufacturers’ convention, to be held
here Thursday of this week, the 10th
instant.
At headquarters of the Georgia Man
ufacturers’ association in the Chamber
of Commerce building, where prepara
tion for all details of the convention
are in progress, it is stated that the
printed blank postal response cards
sent out with invitations, are being re
ceived daily, and that up to this time
several hundred have signified their in
tention to attend the convention.
A number of manufacturers from
different points in the state have
sown their interest in the meeting by
coming to Atlanta and conferring with
local manufacturers here and co-oper
ating with them to make the conven
tion the greatest possible success.
The meeting is not only attracting
widespread state interest, but such
leading industrial journals as the Man
ufacturers’ Record and the Iron Trade
Review have given the occasion liberal
write-ups.
Secretary Wm. W. Horne, of the
State association, furnishes the follow
ing extract of letter from Colonel
Ceorg'e Pope, president of the Na
tional Association of Manufacturers,
which letter expresses his inability to
attend the convention, and is written
as words of greeting. The letter in
part is as follows:
“I have often wondered why so many
manufacturers have been so reluctant
to become members of a combination
which should and almost invariably
does, w’ork for the benefit not only of
its members, but of the community.
This work practically has no limit.
Many think that its only uses are to
'protect its members against unreas
onable demands of labor unions. Even
this can be better accomplished by
working together and being able to
profit by the experience of all. So
much can be done for the good of
every one, for while only one or two
may be attacked, their defeat will
reflect sooner or later upon all hte
others.
“But this is only one of the very
many questions important to the man
ufacturing community and t othe pub
lic in all lines of business—finance by
to means excepted—which can be un
dertaken and wisely consummated for
the good of the individual and for the
public good. The individual member
who con see no good in any work done
by his associates, unless it immediate
ly and directly affects his own inter
ests, is certainly unfortunate, for it is
the general good to all that the mem
bers, individually and collectively,
should work for. The success of in
dustries means the success of a com
munity; without that the community
must languish and suffer.”
According to Secretary Horne, this
is one of many similar letters that have
been received, and witnesses a mani
fest interest even on the part of large
manufacturers without the state of
Gorgia, in the success of a convention
here of state manufacturers.
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C. M. COUNCIL, Vice-Pres. T. E. BOLTON, Asst. Cashier.
i Planters’ Bank of Americus
CAPITAL SURPLUS AND PROFITS $218,000.00
TOTAL DEPOSITS (DECEMBER BTH, 1915) $539,542.92.
With a quarter of a century ex
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home. Save time and money by buying from the
Planters Seed Company.
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Speckle. We can save you money on your Velvet
Beans—s2.oo per bushel f.o.b. Americus.
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