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THE TIMES-RECORDER.
(Member Associated Press.)
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ESTABLISHED 1879.
Published every Sunday morning,
wd every afternoon except Saturday;
and Weekly by the Times-Recorder
Co. (Incorporated.)
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•oataSce at Americus, Ga., under act
at March 3,1879.
G. R. ELLIS,
President.
CRANSTON WILLIAMS,
Editor and General Manager.
THOM AS MERRITT, J IL,
Assistant in Business Department.
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City of Americus.
Sumter County.
Webster County.
Ballroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District
V. S. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, Ga, February 11, 1910
The candidates are away in a hurry.
A liar is a thing you often see—and
too often.
A wife would be an inspiration for
paragraphers.
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It didn’t take long for this political
situation to open up.
The word “reported” is a salvation
tn us newspaper folks.
Today is Friday—and some candi
dates are not superstitious.
While all these leagues are being in
vestigated —we’ve got one.
There must be a significance in the
weather with this political situation.
A health congress has ended, and
may that one which is in bad health
also end.
We lock our door to keep burglars
from being disappointed—that is in the
desk of the paragrapher.
That Florida aviator was particular
about the scenery which he chose for
Ms accident. He hit a hospital.
If we came from lowa -we think
we'd oppose most anything—but It
happens some folks come from Mis
souri.
The Germans are launching atacks
these Cays, which reminds us that it
may be one of the new tangled sub
marines.
A fellow froze to death in the south,
which • reminds us that it must be
warm around the old haunts of Sir
Doc. Cook.
The Virginia legislator who wanted,
tt> regulate women’s dresses must cer
tainly be a student of the fourth di- '
mensions.
Vice-President Marshall says he
says he don’t care if they do nomin
ate him again. That’s what we call a
man and they can’t make him bad.
fTiie law makers haven’t taken cog
nizance of the many, many “colonels”
which we have. The question is de
batable as to their military ability.
Justice Hughes emphatically says
that he is out of politics, which re-j
minds us that there are two ways of
getting out—through the front and
back.
> One of the lawyers suggested that
we devote this column to announce
ments — which we will do, although the
announcement fee is considerably less
tlwt wbat we receive for writing these.
And, still we wrote a paragraph about
a liar. 1
THE “HORRID NEWSPAPERS."
The newspaper can write about it
self, as long as the people persist in
' i talking about it. The Savannah Press
.'contained a thoughtful .editorial on
the newspaper situation as regards the
public, and we herewith reprint it:
A certain Mrs. Mohr of Providence,
Rhode Island, with whom the reading
public is reluctantly familiar, will soon
retire from the newspapers for the
present. We shall not miss her pic
tures, nor shall w r e feel deprived of
the various matters of her private life
with which we have been regaled.
Evidence of her guilt, while not suf
fleent to bring the jury to a verdict
against her, were y.et of such an allur
ing character as to make her case one
which has been heralded to the utmost
,remote corners of the country. Mrs.
Mohr makes her exit; we berathe a
sigh of relief, but full well we realize
that soon some other case of equal
sordiness will come along to ensnare
cur unwilling attention.
Why is it, we wonder, that human
nature craves knowledge and under
standing of these sordid tragedies? It
is exceedingly vain to put the reproach
of tliis upon the newspapers. The J
newspapers, as a general dult, adapt
themselves, in their news policies, to
the people. They supply the sort of
thing the public demands. It is true
tiiat some of them are over-zealous to
a perverted curiosity about evrimes
and sensational scandals, but let us no 1 ,
forget that if the public did not
eagerly consume the supply of naus
eous news, the supply would soon ha
replace d'by news of a higher and
more elevating character.
Newspapers—some of them—do their
hast toward upholding principles of ’
good living and honest politics, but 1
their influence is inevitably bounded
around by what the people desire to
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hear about and think about.
It is both shameful and astonishing
to eralize how trival and vulgar our
interests really are. Newspaper folk
have their ideals, just as artists and
sure-enough literary folks have, but
like these, we too, have to step down
and compromise to keep the bot boil
ing. Some day the ideal newspaper
will be printed, in which the record of
crimes and disasters will be secondary
to the record of kind acts and good
news.
It is a well understood thing that
sensational murders and suicides are
followed by more sensational murders
and suicides. The morbid interest
which news of bad people and bad
deeds arouse tends to set instincts and
tendencies to w'ork, which are deadly
to righteous development. The very '
fact that these sordid shocking things
are so fascinating to the average read
er is an alarming symptom of human
nature’s sympathy with things which
are against the better and higher de
velopment. News of this evil charac
ter, though it carries with it almost
inevitably, the picture of suffering and
disaster, carries also a certain insid
eous contagion.
The newspapers don't know how to
shut the people off from sensational
news and yet live; the people feel that
their self-respect is vindicated if they
b’.ame the newspapers and yet read, so
there you are. The truth is, we must
all mov.e upward or downward togeth
er. By and by, when the people refuse
to make scandals and crimes fashion
able, the newspapers will supply bet
ter news and the public will reach I
fetter tsandards of thought—but
when?
DON’T GOSSIP CLI’B.
Properly this editorial might be
published in the society columns witn
ail du,3 respect to all concerned —but
it is interesting. Gossip is a monster,
more deadly than all the blights known
to the human family.
But gossip is human, we suppose—
and the greater the fight made on the
concealed weapon, the more impossible
tc down it. The Philadelphia Ledger
has this editorial:
"The rush hour is coming when your
sister straphangers will not discuss
other women’s complexions and repu
tations, interesting as these may be;
when, strange as it may seem, you’ll
be able to get your number instead of
the excessively popular Mrs. Busy on
I your telephone; when your stenogra
pher will have displayed such dil-
I igence that none of your correspond-
fHE AMERICUS DAILY TIMLS-RECORDER
ence will be signed in a business col
lege hand because it was dictated but
' not erad; when back fences, durno
1 waiters, tarber chairs and afternoon
8 tea will sigh, oh, so pathetically, for
1 the days of yore. For gossip, it is said,
e is on its last legs. Some people
thought the breathless business of the
! > dansanting would put it out of busi-
S ness. It did not. Where dancing fails
1 efficiency is about to chase a little
® more of the ancient joy of life into the
■ shadows. It is sad to realize that the
1 Woman’s Business Bureau, headquar-
2 ters New York city, is founding an
endless chain of “Don’t Gossip Clubs.''
- Gossip, says the bureau ,is the “most
1 subtle, insidious and deadliest of
• sms,” witness the Ninth Command-
3 ment.
t “It is sadder still to contemplate
■ that,the first ‘Don’t Gossip’ president
i is a stenographer. It will be interest
-3 ing to see her photograph. The chances
• arc that her hair isn’t a bit fluffy, and
3 1 that she doesn’t wear spats, abbreviat-
ed skirts or thoe very long and very
i blonde boots. But the saddest thing
-about the whole affair is that dues to
t the club are only 25 cents a year. That
1 j is not enough. It is a needless tempta-
■ tion. Any one, for the sake of a few
: minutes’ interesting conversation, can
• afford to b« expelled. The‘Don’t Gos
sip Club’ should not limit its member-
> ship to women. Men would jump at an
• opportunity to join, particularly if, for
>25 cents, the bureau would supply
l ' | cards its members might distribute
to uninteresting gossips, the cards
reading, “Spare me this. I belong to
' the Don’t Gossip Club. Why not join?”
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On the Level
By C. W.
If there is anything which this col
limn is more free from than another it:
is a discussion of the war. The war
was begun for the particular benefit of ;
some people, but when the Kaiser got
mad and struck the match on his vel
vet trousers lie forgot to call us intoj
consultation —for which he has made
us his lasting enemy.
But in connection with sidelights on
that struggle in the back-yard of the
world we print the following dispatch
without comment:
Old Woman Who Preached “Thou
Shalt Not Kill," Put in Jail by
Germany.
COLOGNE, Feb. 10.—(Via London)—
Elly Reuse, 74 years old, a woman mis
sionary at Cologne, the head of a small
of Seventh Day Adventists,
who preached the practical application
of the commandment, “Thou shalt not
kill,” was sentenced today by court
martial to nine months' imprisonment
in a fortress on the charge of atempted
treason toy inciting soldiers to insub
ordination. The woman had advocat
ed in speech and print the principle
that soldiers must not slay on the Sab-’
lath. The court accepted as a mitigat- |
ing fact evidence that the defendant
had not acted in an anti-German
spirit. Moreover, a court physician
pronounced her mentally subnormal.
Otherwise the sentence probably would
have been much greater.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Seventh
Day Adventist headquarters here has
no record of a missionary named Elly
Reuss. Officials thought the woman
! referred to in the Cologne dispatch
1 was rather a local adherent of the
faith than an offeer of the church.
There’s one word commonly used
.which must certainly be a child of the
, devil—that is. “tomorrow.” There’s no
such word for good folks to use.
A caroon emphasizes the fact in
some instanc.es:
i Educate yourself—To-marrow'.
Economize—To-morrow.
Quit Drinking—To-morrow.
Quit Gambling—To-morrow.
Get Busy—To-morrow.
Pay Your Debts—To-morrow.
Insure Youself—Tomorrow.
But the greatest of all is putting off;
delaying; procrastinating. The word—
procrastination—is a nice word which
the late Mr. Noah Webster drew to
gether for the purpose of properly de- j
noting "to-morrow" as he didn’t want|
to become contaminated.
Get busy today—don’t put off. .
In line with further comment on
styles, here it is:
RICHMOND, Va„ Feb. 10.—Capt. W.
M. Myers, delegate for Richmond in
the general assembly, today introduced
a bill in the form of an amendment to
the anti-nuisance bill making it unlaw
ful for any woman to wear a skirt, the
hem of which is more than four inches
from the ground, a bodice or shirt-)
waist showing more than three inches
of neck, or clothes of transparent tex
ture. The amendment failed to pass.
Delegate Myers said he wished to
protect men by abating “Broad street
silhouettes.”
The bill was then passed.
The ’bill authorized any citizen to
proceed against a disorderly house
through injunction proceedings.
| THE NEWSPAPER TALK
| When in doubt, announce.—Way-
i cross Journal.
Friends are easier lost than made.—
Thomasville Times.
Roosevelt seems very anxious again
tc run with the ring.—Savannah Press.
Nursing the grippe and writing edi
torials simultaneously is no picnic.—
(Cuthbert Leader.
It probably looks as if the short
skirters are determined to leave no
head unturned.—Valdosta Times.
It’s getting high time for the state
of Georgia to cut out some of its 2x4
political timber.—-Walton Tribune.
Truth is only stranger than fiction
in the sense that some people are less
accustomed to it.—Columbus Ledger.
What has become of the old-fashion
ed girl who invited the man to supper
!on Sunday night.—Rome Tribune-Her
ald.
An Ohio man says we must save the
birds or starve. All right, after the
first of May in Georgia many a swal
low will be safie.—Savannah Press.
Train your children to look pleasant,
advises an exchange. But heredity is
a strong influence—and children, sj
often, take after their father.—Augus
ta Chronicle.
What has become of the old-fashion
ed lad who wanted to run away out
west and kill Indians.—Valdosta
Times.
Andersonville
(Special to Times-Recorder.)
ANDERSONVILLE, Ga., Feb. 10.--
Mrs. Julius Schroeder, of Americus ,is
the guest of the Misses Lacey at the
National cemetery.
Miss Lillie Mae Easterlin returned
1 uesday from a short visit to relatives
in Americus.
The many friends of Mrs. B. F. East
erlin are glad to learn that she is do
ing nicely after undergoing a recent
operation at the Americus hospital.
The hope is now expressed that she
will soon recover.
Leon Slappey, a “knight of the
grip” with headquarters in Atlanta, is
spending this waek with homefolks.
Julian Easterlin has returned home I
from a stay of several weeks in Jack
sonville.
Little Miss Vivian Easterlin and lit
tle brother, Clayton, spent Saturday
and Sunday here with their grandpar
ents.
Rev. George M. Acree ,of Americus,
filled his appointment at the Methodist
church here Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. T. M. Easterlin left Wednesday
for Jacksonville to join her husband,
and in future they will reside there.
Mr. and Mrs. Money Harden, Mrs.
Lucy Rouse and grandchildren, Alex
ard Marguerite Rouse, attended on
Sunday the birthday dinner given at
the home of her on the Americus road.
“Aunt Harriet,” as she is endearingly
called by everybody, was 84 years old.
Mrs. Cliff Johnson and baby daugh
ter, Aldine, have been confined to their
home by a severe attack of lagrippe.
People in this community are glad
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tc see Mr. Paul Easterlin able to be ,
out again after recent serious illness
of several weeks’ duration.
Little Miss Martha Kate Hearn is
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THE IDEAL LAXATIVE
Prominent New Orleans Druggist is
Authority For This Statement
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P. A. CAPOAU
who owns and operates one of the big
stores in New Orleans, says:
“I am of the opinion that Rexall Or
derlies are the ideal laxative for men
women and children. This opinion is
based upon my knowledge of the for
mula and upon what my customers
say about them. Through personal ex
perience, I know they are pleasant to
take, gentle in action, and give the
same pleasing results when used by
men, women or children.”
We have the exclusive selling rights for
this great laxative. Trial size, 10 cents.
MURRAY’S PHARMACY
THE REXALL STORE
up again, after a few days’ illness.
Mr. Joe Rooks is at the wheel of a
handsome new Maxwell car which he
recently bought.
Several residents of this community
are sick with lagrippe and measles.
Mrs. Arthur Davies, of Waycross, is
spending this week here looking after
business interests.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
Notice is hereby given to all of the
creditors of J- W. Furlow, late of said
county, deceased, to present your
ciaims against said estate within the
time required by law, and that all par
ties indebted to said estate shall come
forward and settle the same at once,
so that the estate may be wound up.
This 17th day of January, 1916.
ARTHUR RYLANDER,
Executor of the Estate of J. W. Fur
low.
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and far superior to sour milk and soda.
L. G. COUNCIL, Pres’L Ibc. 18M H. 8. COUNCIL, Cashier.
| C. M. COUNCIL, Vice-Pres. T. E. BOLTON, Asst. Cashier.
: Planters’ Bank of Americus
; CAPITAL. SURPLUS AND PROFITS $218.000.00
TOTAL DEPOSITS (DECEMBER BTH, 1915) $539,542.92.
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home. Save time and money by buying from the
Planters Seed Company.
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SEED CORNS
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MILLET—PearI or Cattail. VELVET BEANS—Ninety Day
Speckle. We can save you money on your Velvet
Beans—s2.oo per bushel f.o.b. Americus.
PLANTERS SEED COMPANY
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Jl9 Forsyth Street - - Americus, Ga
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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
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THEN
We will give you free of charge, one Durham
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remains as long as the stock of razors last.
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Williams-Niles Co.
Opposite P. O. HARDWARE ’Phone 706
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11. 1915