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SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 1916
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“Telephone”
Do you go to see a man
or do you go to talk with
him?
To talk means to tele
phone. The Bell Tele
phone clinches the inter
view and gets you right
down to brass-tacks-busi
ness.
Do less seeing and
more telephoning and
you’ll probably put in a
better day’s work. Use
the Bell and save the
cost of correspondence
and the time it takes to
make a visit.
The long distance lines
carry your voice instant
ly to patrons in other
cities. Try it.
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE
AND TELEGDAPH COMPANY
P. E. WESTBROOKS, Manager.
Americus Georgia.
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.
15c
AMERICUS COCA COLA
BUTTLING CO.
J. T. WARHEN, Mgr.
The Union Central Life’s
reduced rates and The Un
ion Central Life’s liberal di
vidends offer you the best
insurance at a lower cost
than you can buy it else
where.
Lee M. Hansford
Agent
’ oom 18 Planters Bank Bldg.
Phone 715 Americus, Ga.
F. G. OLVER
Seeing Machines and Supplies; Key
Lock Fitting; Umbrellas Repaired
and Covered.
LAMAR STREET JEAR WELL.
IMPORTANT!
It will be to your interest to investi
gate what we have in the Fresh Meat
-nd Green Grocery line. We will give
you value received for your money.
Give us a trial. Your business will be
appreciated. Fresh Meats and Grocer
ies always on hand. We have fresh
Vegetables every day and fresh Fish
especially. We are sanitary in every
respect, and we assure you of prompt
delivery when you order from us.
LEE STREET CASH MARKET
lone (iOS Hudson Building
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♦ ABOUT TO FINISH A ♦
♦ CHINESE DICTIONARY ♦
‘ ♦ PEKING, April 22.—Edmund ♦
♦ Backhouse, an English scholar ♦
I 4 who has been working for twenty 4-
14 years on an Anglo-Chinese dis- ♦
|4 tonary will leave China perman- +
l-v ently this month, and does not 4-
♦ intend to return again. The die- ♦
♦ tionary upon which Mr. Back- ♦
♦ house has been engaged will he 4-
4 three times as voluminous as the ♦
.4 Giles Chinese dictionary, which 4-
4- is now the largest work of the 4
♦ kind in existence. The publica- 4-
A tion of Mr. Backhouse’s new die- 4-
4 tionary is looked forward to by ♦
♦ Chinese scholars as an important ♦
4 step forward in Chinese eduea- 4
4- tion. ♦
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JEWS GET CHANCE
ONMOHE
BREST-LITOVSK, Russia, April 22.
—For almost the first time in history
,of the Jews this district have an op
portunity to show whether or not they
can become agriculturists.
When the Russians evacuated this
city and set it on fire they took with
them many thousands of the Jewish
population. Great numbers died, oth
ers kept on ahead of the retreating
Russians, and still others hid in the
woods and then, penniless and hungry,
streamed back into Brest-Litovsk
again.
For a time the Germans attempted
to house them in the ruined city. But
they have all now been sent out to
abandoned farms, where their work is
regularly inspected by German offic
ials. Every possible assistance is giv
en them in the hope that they may
raise good crops and do their share
toward helping out the need in Poland.
The land in this section is fertile, and
f with proper cultivation and care
should bear a big crop.
The city of Brest-Litovsk itself still
remains the next thing to a city of the
dead. Five sixths or thereabouts of its
houses are nothing but gaping walls
within which stand only the remains
of the remarkable Russian stoves
which stand even after chimneys
crumble and fall.
The Germans stationed in Brest
have done wonders in cleaning up the
city. Each ruined house has been
thoroughly gone over. The debris has
been removed or neatly piled up, and
each object not tterly destroyed by
fire and which is still usable in one
way or another has keen rescued.
The forts, which the Russians blew
up with dynamite and which were val
ued at three hundred million francs
(approximately $60,000,000) are still
heaps of cement and stone, broken
and crumbling. There is no activity
discernable that would indicate that
the Germans are attempting to restore
the fortifications for their own pur
poses.
WAR CAUSES FAVORS IN
THEIR COLLEGE COURSES
VIENNA, April 22.—Thousands of
university students who are serving
at the front have just learned that the
Austrian ministry of education has de
cided to grant them special privileges
it. the way of shortening their college
com re In the faculties of philosophy
and law the men will be allowed tJ
count their time at the front as a uni
versity year. But as for medical stu
dents the authorities say the responsi
bilities of doctors to the community are
too serious to be lightly dealt with, and
so these students cannot be credited
with time like their fellows in other
departments. But through more in
tensive lecture courses and possibly
being permitted to take their examina
tions a little sooner, the medical stu
dents will be given some compensation
for their army work. Their situation
is the harder on a< Jount of the compe
tition of the women students who have
remained at home, pursuing their reg
ular studies and so gaining on their
' male colleagues of the same class.
JAPS GIVEN HEROES
CAMPAIGN PENSION
TOKIO, April 22.—About 1,210,000
yen of $620,000 has been granted to
the officers and men who took part in
the Tsingtau campaign against Ger
many while the pensions due to the
holders of the order of the Golden
Kite given in connection with the
campaign represent an annual dis
bursement of 800,000 yen or $400,000.
According to official investigation
there are 74,117 persons in Japan who
are entitled to pensions by virtue of
their holding orders of the Golden
Kite or orders of the Rising Sun, the
annual expenditure under this head
running over $5,000,000. In addition
r.o less than $9,000,000 is paid to re
tired officers of the civil and military
services, the recipients numbering
143,765. Over 125,000 persons receive
annual allowances from the govern
ment due to the loss of husbands or
fathers while in government service.
The grand expenditure total stansd
at 37,035,300 yen or about $18,500,000,
an increase of some two million and a
half yen over that of the last fiscal
year and of some three millions and a
half disbursed by the authorities the
year before last.
MR. PERRY NOW OCCUPIES
NEW ROME ON JACKSON ST.
Mr. J. R. Perry and family are now
pleasantly domiciled in their new
heme on Jackson street, next door to
the Presbyterian church. Before re
moving from their home on Lee
street into the present one, Mr. Perry
had put it through a thorough course
of remodeling. Inside and out it has
been painted and renovated, so that
now it is one of the most desirable
a:.d attractive homes in the city.
Mr. Perry has been a citizen of
Americus for forty-two years and
when he came here the land on which
his house now stands was the center of
a big corn field. Thus time passes,
and Americus “do” grow.
Takes a Whole
Boat By Sell
ATLANTA, Ga., April 22—Holding
up single-handed the crew of a large
trans-Atlantic steamer is a regular
cinch, if you've got the nerve, accord
ing to Ernest Schiller, the German sub
ject expelled from England, who
startled the world by mastering the
captain and crew 7 of the British steam
ship Matoppo on the high seas, and
who was tried in Wilmington, Del., and
given a life sentence in the United
States penitentiary in tlanta for piracy.
Schiller made his acquaintance yes
terday with Warden Zerbst, and the
1200-odd prisoners in Atlanta who will
keep him company during his pro
tracted stay in the prison, some ot
these being men, like Schiller, who
are sentenced for life.
"I could have forced the captain and
crew of the Matoppo to take to the
ship’s boats, if I had been a mind to,”
said Schiller yesterday. “But I didn't
want to commit murder, and that’s
what it would have been to put them
adrift in the sea that was running. Also
it would have been suicide, as I could
not have managed tie steamer single
handed, although I experienced no dif
ficulty in managing the crew.”
Schiller is 26 years of age and wears
his moustache curled up at the ends in
true Kaiser Wilhelm style.
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4 RELATIONSHIP WILL ♦
♦ . GOVERN INHERITANCE 4
♦ LIMA, Peru, April 22. —Dist- 4
♦ ance in relationship regulates 4-
the tax on inheritances of all ♦
♦ kinds in Peru by a recent law. 4
4 Inheritances of children from par- ♦
♦ ents are taxed 1 per cent, while ♦
♦ those from the most distant rel- 4
♦ atives or from strangers are tax- 4
4 ed 10 er cent. 4
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
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♦STARTS A WEEKLY 4-
♦ PAPER IN TOKIO, J APAN ♦
♦ TOKIO, April 22.—Motosoda 4
♦ Zumoto, who accompanied Baron 4
♦ Shibusawa on the financier’s re- 4-
♦ cent our of the United States and 4-
4 personally translated the Baron’s 4-
♦ speeches from Jauanese into 4-
♦ English, has started a weekly 4-
♦ newspaper in Tokio, called The 4
♦ Herald of Asia. 4-
♦
♦ Mr. Zamoto was formerly pri- 4
4 vate secretary 7 to the Prince Ito, 4
♦ one of Japan’s greatest statesmen ♦
4 and for several years was manag- ♦
♦ er of the Oriental Information 4
♦ Bureau at New York. He is one 4
4- of the ablest journalists of modern 4
4- Japan. 4
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COUNTRIES TO ICT
ON BRIEF MATTER
LONDON, April 22.—The recent tar
iff agitation, growing out of the move
ment to cut off German’s trade activ
ities after the war has been checked
by the announcement of Prime Min
ister Asquith in Parliament that the
conferences of the Allies going on at
Paris would not deal with customs af
fairs, these being left for governmen
al action by each country. It had been
expected that the conference would
take advisory action, in line with the
recent movement of British Chambers
of Commerce, for a tariff giving spec
ial advantages to trade among the Al
lies and Colonies, reasonable conces
sions to neutrals, and a solid wall
against Germany. But the premier’s
announcement is taken to mean that
while joint action against Germany is
open to discussion, each country must
be left free to form its own. tariff
laws w’ithout any commitment on a
tariff scheme devised at a conference.
The London Morning Post, one of the
most active in the recent agitation,
urges that the Prime Minister's an
ouncement arraigns the political
against the business interests, and
that the latter should press forward
their movement.
It says: “With a tariff wall round
the British Empire we shall be in a fit
position to come to terms with our
friends and to defend ourselves
against our enemies. These questions
are urgent and burning: they have
been raised in a practical and pressing
form by the exigencies of war. We
believe it to be true that we must set
tle them or perish. There is every
sign that the country now desires pro
tection. No Free Trader dare stand up
and say ,in the face of the lessons of
this war, that our present system of
free imports shall be continued. They
all make concessions to opinion, and
many of our best Free Trade business
men have been ashamed to announce
their change of mind. It is the Free
Trade politician who remains stub
born and unconverted. We are cer
tain that the producers should be able
to place before that able but some
what elusive politician convincing
proofs of the justice and the power of
their cause. There is no time to be
lost; if our industries do not dig them
selves in now they may te overwhelm
ed by the new dangers of peace.”
PAUL LEE TD BE USHER
11 WEDDING IN ATLANTA
Paul Lee, the popular traveling rep-1
resentative of the Rice & Hutchins
Company, of Atlanta, who maintains
headquarters in Americus arrived
here Thursday night to spend a few
hours at home before leaving for At
lanta Friday night. Mr. Lee reports
business fine on the road and the larg
est sales since he has been visiting
the trade in his territory.
Mr. Lee goes to Atlanta to attend the
Lonsberry-Thomas wedding, which Is
to occur Tuesday at high noon at the
First Methodist church in Atlanta. The
groom-to-be, Fred E. Thomas, is vice
president of the Rice & Hutchins ■
.Company, and Mr. Lee Is to be one of,
the ushers at the wedding.
WOMEN IN CHURCH
WILL STURT FIERI
ATLANTA, Ga., April 22.—The wo
men of the Methodist Episcopal church
are going to take an active hand in pol
itics in the future, but not as advocates
of suffrage, although numbers of them
are, no doubt, individual champions of
the ballot for women.
As an organized body they are going
to campaign for the enactment and en
forcement of legislation to carry out a
social service program which they
adopted yesterday at the closing ses
sion in this city of the Woman’s Mis
sionary Council of the Methodist Epis
copal church. South. There was some
tendency among conservative members
of the council to oppose the adoption
of the program on the ground that it
involved participation in politics, but
the forward-looking element was very
largely In the majority when the mat
ter came to a vote.
The program adopted by the council
|bas a direct bearing on laws already
enacted or under discussion, in prac
tically all the Southern states. The
principal items of the program are:
First, uniform vital statistics laws
in all states; second, the abolition of
child labor by enactment of uniform
laws; third, abolition of illiteracy by
enactment of compulsory educational
laws; fourth, establishment of juven
ile courts; fifth, censorship of motion
pictures; sixth, enforcement of the fed
eral anti-narcotic law and enactment
and enforcement of laws against intox
icants and cigarettes; seventh, estab
lishment of state institutions for the
feeble-minded; eighth, abolishment of
recognized and segregated vice, and
(compulsory reports to health boards of
venereal diseases; ninth, prison reform
and abolition of convict leases and con
vict labor; tenth, cultivation of a bet
ter understanding between the races.
GIVING OUT
The Struggle Discourages Mnny a Cit
izen of Americus.
Around all day with an aching back.
Can’t rest at night;
Enough to make any one “give out. ’
Doan’s Kidney Rills are helping
thousands.
They are for kidney backache;
And other kidney ills.
Here is Americus proof of their mer
it:
W. A. Harin, grocer, Elm Ave. &
Hill St., Americus, says: “I had severe
pains in my back which were almost
unbearable at times. The kidney se
crettions were too frequent in passage
and highly colored 1 tried Doan’s
Kidney Pills and got relief from the
first. Continued use removed the
pains in my back and the action of
my kidneys became regular.” (State
ment given March 8, 1910.
Little Trouble Since.
OVER FOUR YEARS LATER, Mr.
Hardin said: “Doan’s Kidney Pills
cured me a few years ago, and I am
glad to again recommend them to
ether sufferers from kidney trouble. ’
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that
Mr. Bardin has twice publicly recom
mended. Foster-Milburn Co., Props.,
Bugalo, N. Y.
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GIIISIS IN SULPHUR IN
linn BL GOVERNMENT
ROME, April 22.—A crisis in the
sulphur production of the mines of
Italy has become a subject of grave
(Concern to the government. This
trou' le is partly due to the increase
in recent years of the American mine
production, partly due to the increase
in recent years of the American mine
production, partly to a reduction in
the output through technical mining
difficulties, and party to the lack of
manual labor. The whole of Italy’s
product averages 2 3-4 million long
tons, with the mines of Sicily consider
ed the richest. With the price of sul
phur increasing from sll a ton in
1895 to nearly S2O in 1914, the output
in the latter year fell below that of
1595, being but 337,232 long tons, the
lowest output in a period of 21 years.
In the same year the United States’
product almost equalled that of Sicilly
it being 327,634 tons valued at $5,-
954,236.
PAGE THREE
ATLANTA IN FOR ANOTHER
FIGHT ON COMMISSION
ATLANTA, Ga., April
is In for another commission govern
ment fight that will stir the city from
center to circumference. The call for
charter reform that was sounded by-
Mayor Woodward a few days ago in a
message to general council has been
taken up by the newspapers and prom
inent citizens who have long advo
cated a change in the form of munici
pal government and already the clans
are gathering for the fight.
Within the last five years Atlanta
has been through several hard-fougiht
struggles involving fundamental
changes in the charter and each time
the advocates of reform have been
put to route by the office-holders amd
politicians, who have a well entrench
ed organization that bitterly resents
and resists any semblance o-f an at
tempt to separate them from their
hold on the city government.