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THE TIMES-R ECORDER.
(Member Associated Press.)
ESTABLISHED 1879.
Pubiisbeu every Sunday morning and
•very afternoon, except Saturday, and
Weekly, by the Times-Recorder Co.,
(Incorporated.)
Entered as second class matter at
postofiUe at Americus. Ga., under act
of March 3, 1879.
G. R. ELLIS.
President.
CRANSTON WILLIAMS,
Editor and General Manager.
I. M. MERRITT, J IL,
Assistant in Business Department.
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the Americus Times-Recorder.
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 9, 1916.
Tbe Zeps continue to zip.
Tennessee lynched a negro the oth
er day.
"When you are off on a little trip
prepare to pay the piper.
H.?nry Ford would make Teddy a
rand advertising agent.
Battling Nelson has secured a di
vorce, and Is now a bas been in all
rings.
Progressive Johnson, of California,
is another one who is not out of the
running.
The Kaiser has a few representa
tives in congress, but not enough to
pass his resolution.
This weather is like some folks we
trow—you never know what they are
going to do next
Move that Wimjaybrine be sent to i
Haiti as a corporal in one of those '
revolution movements.
There’ll be a flower famine, maybe
an account of the hail storm. Already
a flour famine with us.
The Swedes want to keep us out or
any peace negotiations. Must think
we are at war, sure enough.
An Atlanta man took a horse into a
Marietta street store during a hail
storm. The days of old Texas seem
at hand.
ED GRAFFS .. . aFfl
The Georgia delegation voted solid
ly behind Wilson and the administra
tion Right, they are.
Grand Duke Nicholas is making
things merry on his new iront, and it 1
dees n't make any difference where you
place a good general.
Congressman Page, of North Caro
lina. w ill quit because he cannot back
iTesident Wilson. Considerably over
s hundred should do the same thing
A senator or congressman who will
rot stand by the president in this
moment of crisis, is a traitor to his
own people aq,d deserves the punish
ment of a traitor.
Tbe many friends of Joe Hill Hall,
of Macon, are glad that he has weath
ered an attack by an automobile. It
takes bigger things than gasoline
brggies to kill the old-timers.
The sheriff of Wane county an
nounced that he would begin to en
fore the automobile license tag law on
March 16th —and in the next column
v e noted that the election was to be
hr Id on March loth. Safety first for
that official.
REGISTER SI RE.
Thursday, Friday—then Saturday,
the last day cu which you may register
for the bond election to b- held on
March 15th. This is an important mat
ter. Don’t forget.
Every citizen should display an in
terest in the affairs of his city, county
and state —an interest which is elevat
ing and instructive, not an attitude of
a continual growler.
Use your own luvel head in matters
' about the city, and treat them as you
* would your own private business.
Be sure and register by 5 o’clock
Saturday afternoon. March 11th for the
. bond election.
In the mantime, carefully weigh the
i cits of the proposed bond issue. Fig
j ure some for youriself. and see where
the city will save the amount of the
bond issue in thirty years by the de
crease in interest —from 8 per cent,
which she is now paying to 4 1-2 per
< •■rt. Inf rest on the bonds.
It is a business proposition, and Is
r«' mains to be seen whether you will
treat it that way.
FIGHTING ILLITERACY
The matter of illiteracy in Georgia
is coming in for much discussion
right now among newspapers and
i rightly so for Georgia needs a sweep- ‘
; ing movement forward in every direc-,
: tion. The day of cleaning is here, and
-the people should back the move
ments.
' Every practical effort to eliminate
illiteracy in Georgia deserves the
| heartiest support of the newspapers
of the state, and it may be said that
the new campaign of Supt. Brittain.
1 cf the state schools, along that line is
: getting support that should meet his
■ best expectations. This campaign is
directed specially at adult illiteracy
and is badly needed, for there are fey
' lawyers, roctors. merchants in Geor
gia who do not know that a large per
centage of men and women in the
i state cannot write their names. To
open the door of self-improvement to’
, these people by teaching them to read
and to write and to apply the simple
fundamental principles of arithmetic
is work worth doing. To do it would
' not only help thousands of indviduals .
’tut also would push Georgia as a state
another step along the road towards ;
such prosperity as should now be’
hers.
Yet, while gladly calling attention
to this campaign and expressing an i
earnest desire that it succeed, it is
I
not amiss to ray that as long as Geor- j
I gia's school system is no better than
i
it is now a lot of children will Igrow
up to tacome illiterate adults in a
few more years. While fighting adult
illiteracy nothing should be left un
done to prevent any recruits from
joining the ranks of adult Illiterates.
The best way to prevent men and wo
i men from being il'iterate is to take
|
them when they are boys and girls
and teach them to read and write.
There should not be a ten-year-old
child in Georgia now who cannot
write his name and react simple Eng
lish. Let Georgia provide schools for
a’l her children as quickly as she can ■
so that in after years it will not be
necessary to even consider starting a 1
campaign to teach grown men and
grown women to write and to read. ;
“It may be said that Georgia has |
not th? money right now to provide
school facilities for all her children.
Ft'ght now that is true. But with a
reasonable, practical compulsory ed
ucation law, the enforcement of which
w<;ul be optional with the different
counties, the chances are it would not
be long before there would be
throughout Georgia, school facilities
for every child—and few boys and
girls would be growing up in the'
darkness of illiteracy.’’
PATRIOTISM.
A nation is made gr?a*, not by its
fruitful acres, but by the men who
cltivate them; not by its gureat for- :
erts, but by the men who use them, ■
i.ot by 'is mines, but by the men whol
work in them; not by its railways, but
by the men who build and run them.;
America was a great land when Colum
-lus discovered it; Americans have
wade of it a great Nation.
In 1776 our fathers had a vision of a
tew Nation 'conceived in liberty an 1
dedicated to the proposition that all,
men are created equal.’’ Without an
Hit AMLftIcUS DMILI 1 !Mt2>KECORDER
! army they fought the greatest of exist-'
i irg world empires that they might re
alize this vision. A third of a century
later, without a navy they fought the
greatest navy in the world that thev
j might win for their nation the freedom
cf the seas, alf a century later they
fought through an unparalleled Civil
War that they might establish for all
time on this continent the inalienable
right of life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness. A third of a century later
they fought to emancipate an oppress
ed neighbor, and victory won, gave
! back Cuba to the Cubans, sent an
< army of schoolmasters to educate for
. liberty the Filipinos, asked no war in
: uemnity from their vanquished enemy,
tut paid him liberally for his property.
Meanwhile they offered lands free to
any farmer who would live upon and
; cultivate it, opened to foreign immi
grants on equal terms the door of in
dustrial opportunity, shared with them
political equality, and provided by
universal taxation for universal educa
tion.
The cynic who can see in this his
tory only a theme for his egotistical
i satire is no true American, whatever
; his parentage, whatever his birthplace.
He who looks with pride upon this
history which his fathers have written
by their heroic deeds, who accepts '
i with gratitude the inheritance which
they have bequeathed to him, and who
highly resolves to preserve this in
heritance unimpaired and to pass it on
I
. to his descendants enlarged and en-
1 riched, is a true American, be his Birth
place or his parentage what it may.
LYMAN ABBOTT.
THE DISTRICT FAIR.
It is a source of much pleasure to see ,
how the people of other counties of
'the Third Agricultural District are in
teresting themselves in the Third
I Agricultural District fair, to be held
in Americus in October.
The fair will be for all southwest
Georgia, and there is no doubt as to
j the outcome. Its benefits will be pro
! nounced —the kind which pays divi
• dends.
The people of Americus and Sumter
‘ county should follow with the same
i zal and spirit of other places in the!
district.
I The fair is a paying proposition.
Revolt Stops Preparation
For Thione of New Emperor
j PEKING, March 9.—After a confer
, ence with members of the cabinet,
L President Yuan Shi-kai has ordered
tbe various ministers to discontinue
j all preparations in connection with
his formal enthronement, as the cere
mony has been postponed during the
continuance of the Yunnan revolt.
, Furthermore, Yuan Shi-kai has issued
another order that all ministers and
.beards must exert their fullest efforts
1 1 • expediating regular business and
.bettering governmental affair. The
! Mandate of the president declares that
Jn spite of any trouble which may ex
. irt in the provinces, it is his purpose
Ito have the functions of th? govern
ment performed in Peking just as in
normal times.
I There is much speculation among
' foreigners in Peking as to when the
• oronation will take place, and the
opinion is becoming somewhat general
that the ceremony- will nat be attempt
>d during the present war in Europe
even if the Yunnan revolution should
t ■ settled.
Japan’s opposition to the .enthrone
ment of Yuan Shi-kai has been so in
s-.stent that a change of policy on her
'..art is not expecteed by foreigners
lesident in China.
Japan is constantly reminding the
Chinese of the troubles which exist in
various parts of China, and indicating
they are in fullfillment of the Japanese
prophecies of disturbances in connec
i tion with the proposed change from a
I republic to a monarchy.
Recently the troubles on the Mon
' gclian border have become more and
• mere acute. Opponents of the Yuan
! Shi-kai administration have intimated
that the bandit outbreak in Shensi and
Shansi provinces are a part of the
revolutionary protests against tbe
■ preseit governm?nt. This probably is
.i.ot true, as the robbers became bad
e - ery winter on the boundary between
THE NEWSPAPER TALK
Everybody preaches, some practice,
tut very few ever practice what they
preach.—Griffin News.
Charlie Chaplin says he wants to
play ‘Hamlet.” He seems to be crazy
enough in his pictures.—Columbus En
q irer-Sun.
A prayer rug was recently sold in
New York for $1,2500. The man who’
, sold it must belong to the powers that
prey.—Savannah Press.
We think the Darien Gazette should
become a bi-weekly so it can fight
harder for biennial sessions of the
' legislature.—Savannah Press.
Citizens of Columbus. Atlanta, Au
g sta. etc., can visit Macon now and
' get 3 foretaste of what’s coming to
i them May 1. —Moultrie Observer.
Rome is said to have a young man
resident who writes love letters to
himself. Considerate youth; some of
th am insist upon writing them to
-others. —Savannah Press.
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We think it very unkind of Editor
Lcyless to have given the peanut in
d .stry such a sad blow upon the oc
casion of his visit to Atlanta when so
! many Georgia newspapers are urging
the farmers to plant more .of them.—
Savannah Press.
Lowndes county has a set of lakes
that disappear and reappear very
mysteriously. We might doubt this
but we see a Baptist preacher vouches
i forth? story and Baptist preachers
are authority on deep waters. —Sa-
vannah Press.
/
Those clothless clothes that show
what ought not to be shown, are a
trap set that never fails to catch a
man, for a man is a man regardless of
pretense or profession, and non? know'
this fact better than the woman who:
follows dome fashion to extremes.—
I Thomasville Press.
The people whose advertisementi
. sou read in this paper are on the level
They’re not afraid of tnelr goods.
• tbe two provinces named and Mongol-1
1 ia. Recently the bands of jobbers, or
tufei, have become larger than in .ior
1 mal years an dtheir operations are
1 more widespread.
They have attacked and destroyed
larger towns than is usually their
practice, and within the last month
they have made raids in the noKX of
Shansi province which the Chinese
army has been wholly unable to cope
with. Patseblong and Paotowchen,
two frontier towns in Mongolia, have j
been looted and the operations of the
bandits extended to Saratsi, Kweih
wating and a number of other training
centers in north Shansi province.
French, American and Swedish mis
sions have considerable interest in the
territory which has been raided, and
the American and French ministers in
! Peking haev been active in trying to;
get better protection for the missions ’
in the bandit territory. The foreign !
' office has repeatedly sought the co j
! operation of the army in restraining
tl.e outlaws, but the operations of the'
robbers have been so wide that the j
■ Chinese troops have afiled to check
them with any degree of success.
1
All Cash Gone
l
And Excitement
ATLANTA, March 9- —The local'
i lodge of the negro Odd Fellows has;
been thrown into a panic by the disap-1
pearance of Thomas Mulkey, who took
I v. ith him when he departed all of the ‘
lodge’s cash funds and its dusky
I■ stenographer as well.
I With th? money in his satchel and I
> the colored stenographer at his side
i as his bride. Mulkey got as far as St.
Louis, tut there both were arersted by
, to egraph, and the negro Odd Feellows
h. vs heaved a sigh of re'ief. 1
| BOTTLED
ft’s the drink that sati
fies.
Because—
It’s Pure.
It’s Wholesome.
It refreshing.
It’s always the same
I in flavor and in good
ness.
I 5c
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| AMLRICUS COCA COLA
| BOTTLING CO.
|| J. I. WASBEK, Mgr.
I iiMBBBi mm aar
MISS LILLIAN CHANDLER
FULE AND LIFE INSURANCE
HEALTH AND ACCIDENT.
Office: AUison 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,
, I Dental Surgeon.
Orthodontia, Pyorrhea.
J tifs’dent Phone 218. Office Phone 81 >
Allison Bldg.
DR. M. H. WHEELER,
Dentist.
Office in Bell Bldg., Lamar St. Just
opposite Postoffice.
Iffice Phone 785. Residence Phone 28-3 ■
F. and A. M.
® AMERICUS LODG3
F. and A. M. m
& F " an d A- M. meeta ev-
| ery second and fourth
V. Friday night at 7
. .o’clock.
8, A. HAMMOND. W. M.
CLOYD BUCHANAN, Sec’y.
£ M. B. COUNCIL
. - LODGE, F, and A. M.,
£ me9ts ever y First and
XSjfeK .-Third Friday nights.
f » Visiting brothers are
invited to attend.
H. B. MASH3URN, W. M.
NAT LeMASTEIi, Secretary.
(ME Bl CCS CAMP, 202, WDORMKf ‘
OF THE WORLD.
Meets every Wednesday night in tin I
Wheatley Blig., Windsor Ave. AH vis ,
ting Sovereigns invited to raeet wIU
■e. J. M. TOBIN, C. C.
NAT LeMASTER, Clerk.
•» ASHING ION CAMP, NO. 14,
P. O. S. OF A.
Meets on Tbuisoay nights, Wheal ■
|ey Building, at ; ; 30 o’clock. Al) mem j
J sera are urged to attend Vieitorv ‘
■ *eicotued. E. F. WILDER, Pres’t.
O. D. REESE. Recording riec y.
NAT LeMASTER. Financial Sec’y.
F. G. OLVER
Sewing Machines and Supplies; Key
; inn Lock Fitting; Umbrellas Repairec
| ind Covered.
LAMAR STREET NEAR WELL.
You may have good safe
Insurance but until you
get a
Union Central
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
dMON CtJITIUL LIFE INSURANCE CO
I EE M. HANSFORD, General Ageol.
Room 18. Pi an tert Bank BIQg
The Great AewU I SuMand Payer."
i L. G. COUNCIL. Prert. I>c. 1891 H. 8. COUNCIL, Cashier.
C. M. COUNCIL, Vice-Pres. T. E. BOLTON, Asst, Cashier.
Planters’ Bank of Americus
CAPITAL SIRPLIS AND PROFITS $218,000.00
TOTAL DEPOSITS (DECEMBER BTH, 1915) «539 r
; With a quarter of a century ex-
I perlence in succ ssful banking
; ? / J * and with our large resources and
! ? i dose personal all entlon to every
I intfrest consilient with sound
1 nv J 5 banking,we solicit jour patronage
! 7 Interest allowed on time cer-
! fil&’S' tiiicatrs and in cur deparmtent
I or savings.
Prompt, Conservative, Accommodating. We want
your Business.
No Account Too Large and None Too Small.
Member of Americus Chamber of Commerce.
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LIQUID POLISH-TONE
THE
VARNISH FOOD
For Cleaning and Polishing
Hardwood Floors, Furniture, Pianos,
Automobiles and Carriages, also
Best tor Renewing any Mop
The oolish that does not gum or veneer. Restores
1 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
! l
Williams-Niles Co.
Opposite P. O. HARDWARE ’Pnone 706
THE ALLISON UNDERTAKING COMPANY
. . . FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS . • ’
Das Phones Night Phones
253 80 and 106
J. H. BEARD, Director, Americus, Ga
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Commercial City Bank
AMERICUS, GA.
General Banking Business
INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS
I eMa—MbM——
I MONEY LOANED!
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We make farm loans at 6 per cent inteiest 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
i principal required.
; G. R. ELLIS or G C. WEBB
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PREPAREDNESS
KAY-LAX
Mr. Wise prepares for the onsla ;ght of his enemy "The Army of Dis
ease with the proper defense—
KAY-LAX
KAY LAX cleans the liver, stomach and bowels; aiding digestion, rtllevlnf
sour stomach, constipation, colds, bi llousness, headaches.
For men, women and children.
Endorsed by chemists—every bottle guaranteed.
For sale by
HOOKS’ PHARMACY
The Profit-Sharing Drug Store Open AH Night
HERBERT HAWKINS
insurance and Surety Bonds
Specialty—Autos at 2 per ct,'
Planters Bank Building r ’Phone No. 186
THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 191«.