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THE: TIMES-RECORDER.
(Member Associated Press.)
ESTABLISHED 1879.
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Publisher every Sunday morning and
•very afternoon, except Saturday, and
Weekly, by the Times-Recorder Co., <
(Incorporated.) I.
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poaiottice at Americus Ga., under act
•f March 3, 1879.
G. R. ELLIS.
President.
CRANSTON WILLIAMS,
Editor and General Manager.
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Assistant in Business Department.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR:
City of Americus.
Sumter County
Webster County.
Railroad Commission of Georgia F,r
Third Congressional District.
U. S. Court Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, Ga., March 8, 1916
Lent begins today.
That little spark of love is still
Burning, ain’t it doc?
Looking for a big sea battle mighty
soon, and it vyill be squally.
One week from this good day and it
•ill be election time in Sumter.
Charlie Chaplin is certainly an
<at*ect of charity—slo,ooo per week
The lamp shade stocking is one on
as. and we thought we’d seen ’em alb.
The Sumter county commissioners
are backing the fair, and everybody
should.
When you drop by the polls at the
•curt house, come by the city hall and
rot® for bonds.
The great one question before Geor
gia once confronted Hamlet—‘‘to be
or not to be.’’
A negro in Macon was sentenced to
twelve months on the gang for steal
ing 60c worth of combs. And is this
consistent?
A tube of disinfectant killed a large
gathering of inmates in a Texas jail.
A hath would do the same thing for
some folks.
Franc Mangum on the Macon
Mews, wants to know why silk stock
ists are more interesting than bare
Diabs. At least, they go together.
Editor Tom Loyless, of the Augusta
Chronicle, wants a constitutional
convention—for moral motiv.es. Al
ways something new—and it can’t be
any worse than the past.
The Albany Herald thinks the high
cost of gasoline is trying to keep up ,
with the flying machines. In all ser- |
fcastiess, dear comrades, is awful how
this mixture called gasoline is taking
wings.
The Dalton Citizen and Johnnie
Spencer, on the Macon Telegraph,
cwrry on a regular day-in-and-day-out
discussion over ‘‘prayer and rugs."
Johnnie must get inspiration from
somewhere.
The Valdosta Times, in referring to
the new Moultrie Y. M. C. A., hopes
that it will not have the same troubles
as Americus, Waycross and Macon.
These organizations should be given
better support.
Bibb county would sweep before her
own door in the matter of illiteracy.
That is well, and should be in every
thing. Tao many people arc prone to
criticize who themselves are worse
than the folks they talk about.
W ARRANT HIGHER PRICES.
In a letter sent out by the cotton
house of Johnston, Storm & Co., New
A ork, a discussion is found as to the ’
conditions of the cotton market at this!
time—when, these factors believe, the
prices should be higher than they are
It is suggested that the conditions are
similar to those which existed in the
spring of 1914, the year when the war
began. It is suggested also that with
a recent decline which has never
been recovered, there is no incentive
to planting a larger acreage this year
than last. The letter says:
It is far too early, of course, to
even make the wildest guess of next
I year’s production, but along this line
of thought we find a material reduc
tion in fertilizer, particularly in the
eastern belt, following a heavy reduc
tion last year, and the growth will be
attempted upon impoverished lands,
and it is a well known fact that cotton
just like children, needs proper food,
! and if the plant does not get food it
I will not develop into a strong, healthy
and producing product. In the west
ern belt we hear reports of deficiency
of rainfall, and that is the most ser
ions condition that could confront tha.
section of the cotton belt.
We must keep in mind the fact that
a great deal of cotton has been held
all during the season by men finan
cially able to hold until the price is
satisfactory to them, and who have,
stated all year, and still state, that l
their cotton is not for sale at these
prices, and will be held until next
year, if necessary. To all intents and
purposes this cotton is off the market.
There is also a good deal of cotton
owned and held in this country by for
eign interests, which will not be sold,
according to present reports. These
two facts taken in conjunction with
the small visible supply make a very
strong underlying situation and one
that in our opinion will warrant and
cruse very much higher prices, pro
vided this country continues to be
blessed with peace.
Another bullish feature st the mo
ment is spinners’ takings which up to
February 25th were 8,362,243 bales
against 7,630,435 last year (the total
takings last year were 14,040,00)
tales). From lhese figures the con
clusion can be justly drawn that spin
ners' takings will at least equal last
year, and if this is the case it will
leave us an extremeley moderate visi
ble supply, so moderate in fact that we
jcxpect much higher prices based on
this argument alone.
We beelieve that the fundamental
conditions warrant higher prices, and
if it were not for the complex and
:n< rve racking political outlook we
would strongly advise the purchase of
cotton at thes.e prices.
While the time may not be just op
portune for commencing operations for
a bull campaign, we strongly advise
against sales at this level.
RIGHT OR WRONG.
It is our pleasure to quote from
prominent men throughout the state
ami nation on important questions, but
every now and then it is not. Sena
tor Vardaman, of Mississippi, is a
character well known in public life,
but having some characteristics and
ideas which all people do not like.
In the debate in the senate Satur
day on the armed merchant ship ques
ti >n, Senator Vardaman arose to quote,
the following lines from an English!
'author:
‘ I pity from my soul the unhappy man,'
Compelled by want to prostitute his
pen,
Who must, like politicians, either
strive or plead
i And follow, right or wrong, where the
guineas lead.’’
There is more truth than poetry, in
,the language of these by-words.
People and newspapers do this very
some thing.
THE HAND IS YOURS!
The Albany Herald plays in the role
. of a weather prophet and says “Vege
tation will do well to hesitate a while
longer."—Americus Times-Recorder.
Anything the matter with that?
' Beats Professor Snider, the “Rip
. snorter" weather prophet of Griffin,
■'.doesn’t it? Didn't it turn cold enough
> hist night to nip any over-ambitious
s vegetation that didn’t take teh advice
'to “hesitate?”—Albany Herald.
THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER
THE SEA BATTLE.
People who have studied the Euro
pean war in an effort to find some
,clue which might give an inkling as
| to when the end would come, feel that
an impending naval battle of gigantic
proportions will bring that era.
An eminent British naval officer has
said that he believed a huge Anglo-
Teutonic naval battle was not far dis
tant. The late afternoon dispatches
Tuesday stated that twenty German
dreadnaughts had left Kiel harbor,
aid tiys message had been delayed by
the censors.
Regardless of one’s attitude to
wards the struggle, whether he be pro
ally, or pro-Teutonic, it must be admit
ed that each day the war lasts the
tendency is towards Germanic defeat.
If it is to tee a war of endurance then
the entente allies have every advant
age. The resources of Russia, Gerat
Britain, France and her allies are un
limited, having as they do the four
corners of the globe to draw from.
While the Teutons are cooped in a
band of steel with their merchant
marines rottening and the hulks of
their ships anchored in docks.
An offensive of remarkable intensity
has been launched against the strong
fortress of Verdun. Military author
ities have considered this point a bul
wark of defense along the entire west
ern front. The Germans chose to attack
ihere —and the Fatherland, that un-
American newspaper published in
New York, says the Kaiser attacked
here in keeping with the true spirit of
the Teutonic race. This newspaer
states that the Germans attack the
strong—and not the weak. This may
he real enlightening thunder for the
political orator and the singing poet,
but it doesn’t go well in war.
Therefore, granting that the entente
allies have no hope in breaking the
German defenses, it is equally true in
the reverse.
Many believe that the high-tide of
the German cause has been reached,
and from now on their star is in the
wane.
Gathered in the port of Kiel. a
Gibralter constructed by man, is a
huge fleet. And until that fleet sallies
forth to encounter the circle of English
battleships, the Germans will not
concede defeat.
It may be argued that the Germans
have nothing to gain by a victory on
the seas, because they are outnumb
ered in scores of fighting ships. But
the German race has a peculiarity of
attempting things which the public
can’t understand—and they may have
a reason.
NEVER A STRIKE.
Almost four hundred thousand em
ployees on 528 railway lines in the
United States comprising the organ
izations of the Bretherhood of Loco
motive Engineers, the Brotherhood of
I .ocomotive Firemen and Enginemen, j
the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
and the Order of Railroad Conductors
are affected by the count of ballots
which began today to decide whether
these workmen would strike.
The reading public is familiar with
a discussion which has been going on
tor several months between the rail
roads and the employees. It has
i eached that formidable proportions
where the workmen are voting on the
question of a strike.
In the news columns of today’s
| Times-Recorder appears an article re
-1 lating to the causes which both sides
' present. It is the most vital move
ment of today—vital because it affects
e ery man, woman and child in Amer
ica .
We do not propose to discuss the
merits of either side of the cas.e. We
must confess our ignorance as to the
motives and reasons advanced by em
ploye and railroad alike.
But the American people do not
want a strike on the railroads of such
nation-wide proportion. There is a
way to settle this difference, and it
1 will be settled before a strike begins
—or very shortly afterwards.
No happening in our commercial life
jcculd have such a deadening and de
moralizing effect, and with questions
j vital to the life of America already ex
isting in a dangerous crisis, the pub
■ lie. does not want a general railroad
.strike.
If it does come—we are reluctant to
| THE NEWSPAPER TALK
At any rate, that fellow Snider, at
Griffin, does about as well as any of
them.—Conyers Times.
What has become of the old-fash
icned boy who played hooky and forg
ed a written excuse to give to the
teacher?—Sparta Ishmaelite.
About the only thing we have
against the prohibition bill is it does
not prohibit snakes. Will some one
offer an amendment —Conyers Times.
There are not as manly opportuni
ties for a young man to get ahead in
the world as there were before the in
vention of the cash register.—Bruns
wick Banner.
Prof. Snider, up Griffin way, says
Jie wants money for picking out fair
days in advance. Seems to us this
weather bug is trying to compete
fwith one of those prayer rugs.—Sa
vannah Press.
It is said there are ordinaries in
Georgia that charge Confederate vet
erans $1 for writing their pension
checks of S6O a year. Excuse our
French, but if this is so it’s a d —m
shame.—Savannah Press.
Seems like somebody's little slate
got smashed at the recent state ex
ecutive committe meeting in Atlanta.
Those dear Atlanta papers didn’t
breathe a word of it, either, and the
ever faithful Albany Herald never so
much as whispered it to us.—Early
County News.
SAGE TEA DANDY
TO DARKEN HAIR
[Look Years Younger! Use the Old-
Time Sage Tea and Sulphur and
Nobody Will Know.
You can turn gray, faded hair beau
tifully dark and lustrous almost over
night if you’ll get a 50-cent bottle of
‘ Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Com
pound.” at any drug store. Millions
of bottles of this old famous Sage Tea
Recipe, improved by the addition of
other ingredients, are sold annually,
says a well-known druggist here, be
cause it darkens the hair so naturally
and evenly that no one can tell it has
been applied.
Those who hair is turning gray or
becoming faded have a surprise await
ing them, because after one or two ap
plications the gray hair vanishes and
your locks become luxuriantly dark
and beautiful.
This is the age of youth. Gray-haired,
unattractive folks aren’t wanted
around, so get busy with Wyeth’s Sage
and Sulphur Compound tonight and
you’ll be delighted with your dark,
handsome hair and your youthful ap
pearance within a few days.
This preparation is a toilet requisite
and is not intended for the cure, mit
igation or prevention of disease.
Two Thousand
Under J. Bull
LONDON, March B.—A total of 2,834
establishments for the manufacture
of shells and munitions are now under
control of the British Minister of Mu
nitions. The first factory was taken
over by the government on July 12,
1915.
WHAT MANY CHILDREN LACK
A sad sight, indeed, it is to see so
many children on our streets weak,
peevish, delicate and ailing, with
spindling little legs and'arms and
often so cross that parents can do
j nothing with them, all because they
lack vitality. Our local druggists,
Hooks Pharmacy, ask the parents of
every such child to try Vinol, their
non-secret cod liver and iron remedy,
to oevreome such conditions. It con
tains no oil or grease, and is so delic
ious children love to take it.
ccntemplate the results.
I
A military government throughout
America for a period would not sit
veil for the average every-day citi
zen. But blood and riot are as sure
as day and night.
The powers who can control the
rituation should arise to their duties
to the American people.
I BOTTLED
It’s the drink that sati-
fies.
Because—
It’s Pure.
It’s Wholesome.
It refreshing.
It’s always the same
in flavor and in good
ness.
5c
AMERICUS COCA COLA
BOTTLING CO.
J. T. WABBLN, Mgr.
MISS LILLIAN CHANDLER
EIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE
HEALTH AND ACCIDENT.
Office: Allison Building, Phone 45.
Americus, Ga.
WONDER PRESSING CLUB
A. HENDERSON, Prop.
Next Chinese Laundry.
Suits pressed and Cleaned 50c
Suits Pressed 25c
Ladies’ Work a Specialty.
Work done and delivered same day.
C. P. DAVIS,
Dental Surgeon.
Orthodontia, Pyorrhea.
Resident Phone 218. Office Phone 811
Allison Bldg.
DR. M. H. WHEELER,
Dentist.
Office in Bell Bldg., Lamar St. Juit
>pposite Postofflce.
)ffice Phone 785. Residence Phone 884
F. and A. M.
jfc AMERICUS LODGH
F. and A. M. m
A. jO F - and A ’ meets eT ”
ery second 411(1 fourth
Friday night at 7
.. o’clock;
S. A. HAMMOND, W. M.
CLOYD BUCHANAN, Sec’y.
M M. B. COUNCIL
ZL . .LODGE, F, and A. M.,
meets ever y First and
.. Third Friday nights.
Z \ Visiting brothers are
invited to attend.
H. B. MASHBURN, W. M.
NAT LeMASTER, Secretary.
IMERICUS CAMP, 292, WUODMMI
OF THE WORLD.
Meets every Wednesday night in tn»
Aheatley Bldg., Windsor Ave. All via
icing Sovereigns invited to meet wlti
<B. J. M. TOBIN, C. C.
NAT LeMASTER, Clerk.
’* AsHING'iUN CAMP, NO. 14.
P. 0. 8. OF A.
Meets on Thursoay nights. Wheat
tey Building, at 7:30 o’clock. AB mem
uers are urged to attend Visitor*
welcomed. E. F. WILDER, Pree’t.
O. D. REESE, Recording Sec y.
NAT LeMASTER. Financial Sec’y.
F. G. OLVER
Sewing Machines and Supplies; Key
tnu Lock Fitting; Umbrellas Repairet
and Covered.
I.AMAR STREET NEAR WELL.
You may have good safe
insurance but until you
get a
Union Centra)
Policy
you haven’t the best It is
best because it gives you all
that is good in I ife Insur
rance protection, and gives
it to you for less
UNION CENTRAL LIFE INSURANCE CO
(EE M. HANSFORD, General Agent
Room 18, Planters Bank Blag.
1 The Great AanwM S4ri4*nd Payer.’
L. G. COUNCIL, Pres’t lac. 1891 H. S. 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 STH, 1915) $539,542.92.
mWitb a quarter of a century ex
perience in successful banking
and with our large resources and .
close personal attention to every
Interest consistent with sound
banking,we solicit j our patronage
Interest allowed on time cer
"ings"" ”" r '
Prompt, Conservative, Accommodating. We want
your Business.
No Account Too Large and None Too Small.
Member of Americus Chamber of Commerce.
”LIQUID POLISH-TONE
THE
VARNISH FOOD
For Cleaning and Polishing
Hardwood Floors, Furniture, Pianos,
Automobiles and Carriages, also
Best tor Renewing any Mop
The polish that does not gum or veneer. Restores
the varnish to its original brilliancy, bringing out
the grain of the wood so as to give it that beautiful
effect so much desired.
Gives a Hard, Dry Lustre
—————
FOR SALE BY
Williams-Niles Co.
Opposite P. O. HARDWARE ’Phone 706
THE ALLISDN UNDERTAKE COMPANY
. . . FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS . > ■
Daj Phones , Night Phones
253 80 and 106
J. H. BEARD, Director. Americus, Ga,
Commercial City Bank
AMERICUS, GA.
General Banking Business
INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS
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 j
PREPAREDNESS
KAY-LAX
Mr. Wise prepares for the onsla ight of his enemy “The Army of Dis
ease with the proper defense—
KAY-LAX
KAY LAX cleans the liver, stomach and bowels; aiding digestion, relieving
sour stomach, constipation, colds, bi Itousness, headaches.
For men, women and children. **
Endorsed by chemists—every bottle guaranteed.
For sale by
HOOKS’ PHARMACY
The Profit-Sharing Drug Store Open All Night.
HERBERT HAWKINS
insurance and Surety Bonds
Specialty—Autos at 2 per ct.'
arters Bark Building • ’Phone No, 186
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8,191 C