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i HE TIMES HEt f'KuEtv
ESTABLISHED 1879.
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City of Americus.
Sumter County.
Webster County.
Railroad Commission of Georgia I’or 1
Third Congressional District. (
U. S. Court Southern District of (
Georgia. (
Americus, t’ii.. October 22, 1916 <
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City politics will entertain you some (
now. j
We’re waiting on that dollar for :
Wilson. t
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Just waiting for the Turkey before '
the Greece.
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That storm brought cold weather, if
nothing else.
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Being 100-proof is stronger than a
100-per cent, candidate.
The Cunard line might be glad to
see peace come out of this war.
The circuses gave Americus the g-o. 1
this season —but who's cryin’? s
Uncle Sam may be considering us- *
ing the want column —for more sold- 1
ltrs.
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Chicago broke into the head-lines 1
with a great big, outlandish, near-fight
when Wilson hit town.
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Thomas A. Edison may be prepared j
now to talk on strikes. He has had
one, so the dispatches say.
“Hog Display Marks This Fair” is a
head-line. There is a hog display in
ether places than a fair, too.
If the border really needed the Camp
Harris boys, who’d get all the blame
for the delay in rolling facilities?
We don’t know what you think about
it, but a little supply of coal with an
overcoat, isn’t bad for this weather.
Americus is going to lend Secretary
Fenimore to the Georgia State fair to
help them run things up there for a
few days.
November 7th is when everybody
names the president, and November
Sth is when Americus again goes to
the polls in her city primary.
It is being whispered around that
the newspaper boys in Atlanta refer to
Governor Jones and Mr. Harris these
days—since the censor got busy.
State Geologist McCallie says that
setting of crystalline rock caused the
earthquake in this section. Mister,
don’t you think Wilson had something
to do with it?
The Episcopalians were witling to
let Moses’ version of the Ten Com
mandments stand awhile longer. One
of our clergy friends says lengthen ’em,
it it’ll help their observance.
Lucian Lamar Knight, the gifted
Georgian, spoke eloquently in the north
the other day on the occasion of the
unveiling of a monument to Dr. Lyman
Hall, one of the Georgia signers of the
Declaration of Independence.
On Tuesday, November 7th, is when,
stalwart Georgia will march to the
polls and register her approval of Wil
son and the Democratic administra
tion. Os course, there are a few who
think that they can get something if
the Repubs secure control—-but post
masterships as only every now and
then.
“DON’T HE LOOK NATURAL.”
Rather humorous, still serious, Ed-
J itor Brown, of the Richland News, is
, pleading with the city authorities of
Richland, to erect roads signs for
t safety of pedestrians and automobile
’ drivers in that city. The Richland ed-
I
itor is right, and a few dollars spent
here might save hours of grief and
anguish—for some day it may be as
Brown says:
“On account of the 'city lathers’ ig- ‘
noring the constant appeals of the
people and of The News for some
“Keep to the Right” signs on the sev
eral corners of Broadway, several near
accidents have been pulled off by auto
drivers of late. The News has, time
after time, appealed this
through the editorial columns to the
City Council, but it has never been giv
en much consideration. Some day, I
when there will be a serious accident, j
and a slow driving, and a “Don’t He
Look Natural” procession, cur author- i
ities will open their eyes and possibly i
say that the Richland News was right 1
in asking this inexpensive little thing, i
IN A FEW YEARS,
There are a few one-lunged side J
kicking morsels of humanity around
here who think that a newspaper is
aiding and abbeting crime when they
use some judgement to assist the au- ,
tborities on running some outlaw
deed to ground. Those ingrates want ,
everything printed, and then have a
chance to cuss everybody because no
one is punished.—Americus Time;-
Recorder.
Such is life Crans. In the course of;
a few more years of experience wi h
the thing we call humanity—you will j
find that there is a large supply of 1
ladies and gentlemen in this old world
—but along the same paths of life we
find a goodly number of piffle headed
fools who have no consideration of
another man’s opinion.—Richland
News.
‘•OLD BOOZE.’
The Cuthbert Leader, with its ear to
the ground and its sights trained into
the sure future, had the following to
say:
Two drunken men in an automobile
from Leslie started to Albany Friday
night. On the way they had a quarrel
and one shot and killed the other and
is in jail at Leesburg, charged with
murder. They were friends, but whis
key made them unreasonable and reck
less and the tragedy followed. Some of
these days the good people of the
country will land on Old Booze and
not leave him a legal leg to stand on.
WE’RE HOPING. 1
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Editor Jerger, of the Thomasville
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Times-Enterprise, is interested in the
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efforts of Americus to get the Wash-
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ington American league baseball team
to train here, and says:
Americus is trying to get Walter
Johnson and his crowd to spend a few
weeks in Muckalee town about the first
of March. Griff and the Senators have
decided they won’t go to Charlottes
ville, Va., this year, but will come fur
ther South.
PRODUCTION OF
CROPS IS SHORT
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(From Manufacturer’s Record.)
The farm crops of the country, based
. on the Department of Agriculture’s
( October report, show a decline of over
, 1,110,000,000 bushels of grain, 63,000,-
600 bushels of potatoes, 26,000,000
bushels of peaches and 10,000,000 bar
rels of apples.
The wheat crop is the smallest
since 1914. though our population has
’ grown approximately 20,000,000 sine?
then, and Europe is still eagerly buy
ing in competition with home consum
ers.
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Not many years ago we imported a
> I few cargoes of Argentine corn, but
; now, for the first time, we are looking
to that country for wheat, and a cargo
is now on the way to this country.
With a decrease of over 400,000,000
1 bushels of wheat, 337,000,000 bushels
o' corn, 311,000,000 bushels of oats and
63,000,000 bushels of potatoes, exorb
-1 i itant prices for foodstuffs are abso-
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lutely certain, and there is no power
in Government to change the effect of
the law of supply and demand.
1 We also have a very short cotton
! crop, and the certainty that prices for
’ that staple must average higher than
for many years, and bring to the
* South for tills crop, seed included,
f I probably not less than $1,200,000,000.
‘ j High prices for labor and a steady
to shorter hours, aided and
abetted by the President and Congress,
i have already had the effect of making'
lit unusually difficult in all parts cf,
the country to secure farm labor fori
the coming crop season, and yet, un
less larger acreage is put in grain and
cotton for next year, we shall have
famine conditions, even if nature
should prove more helpful than this
year.
Before another crop season the
' country will be practically swept bare
lof wheat and corn and cotton, and!
prices will go far higher than now j
j unless there is an assurance, by a;
i greatly increased acreage, of a larger'
. yield.
In the South it is especially import
ant that every possible effort shall be
made to increase the acreage in food
stuffs, or otherwise high prices of cot
ton will be offset by the enormous
sums this section will have to pay out
for grain and meats.
It is useless for us to rail against
these conditions, however hard may be
these high prices upon all consumers.
Nature never before, we believe, made
such wide-sweeping losses in all crops
and in all sections of our country as
this year. We cannot successfully war
against nature when she withholds
her rains or favors us too much, as
was the case in different sections this
yer. We can only hope for better con
ditions next year, in order to overcome
the shortage in crops this year. Duty
to national welfare and to avoid fam-'
I
ine conditions next year demands that
every business and governmental in-,
fluence available should put forth to
bring about an increase in acreage for
foodstuffs this fall and next spring.
The Public
Safety Valve
Belgium Relief.
Editor Times-Recorder:
Once again for the third successive
year I crave the publicity of your,'
columns in behalf of helpless children i
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ir Belgium. The Dollar Christmas!
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Fund of which I am treasurer wants'
to make a still more urgent appeal'
than in the two previous years simply,
because the need is more urgent.
Mr. Hoover, the head of the Relief
Commission for Belgium, lias drawn
attention to the facts of the case and 1
emphasized the positive necessity of
the children receiving one square meal
a day served at school. .Under existing
arrangements necessitous persons in 1
Belgium—there are about three mil
lions of them—receive one-third of a
I soldier’s ration, just enough to keep;
body and soul together. The Belgian
•people as a nation bruised and broken l
by the tragic experiences of war are'
feeling the tremendous strain most'
severely but the alarming scourage Y j
tuberculosis and other forms of dis
ease due to impaired vitality has been!
felt most of all by the little ones.
All impartial witnesses who hav?
had the chance of seeing conditions
Cor themselves in Belgium have re
ported that the children there can
not grow to halthy maturity unless'
they are provided with more food. 1
Money cannot compensate for tlie loss
of Belgian cities lately radiant with
the splendor and glory of centuries or
the loss of life but money can at least'
supply one square meal a day during
the winter months. That is just what'
the Dollar Christmas Fund is striving
tc secure.
Our committee is cooperating now,
as in previous years, with the Com
mission for Relief thereby safeguard
ing against all waste. The same rep
resentatives and prominent citizens
who backed our appeal in the first
year are still with us lately reinforced
by the names of Mr. Oscar Straus and
Sor Herbert Tree. Mr. Percy Bullen
of 66 Broadway, New York, from whom
authorized collecting cards can be ob
tained is again our honorary secre
tary.
Hitherto the response to our Christ
mas appeal has always been prompt
and generous and our donations are
accepted by the sufferers in Belgium
as a special Christmas gift from one
people to another, a tangible proof
that Christmas godwill even In these
days of strife and bloodshed has not
disappeared from earth. All donations
sent to myself as Treasurer care
Henry Clews and Co., Bankers, Broad
Street. New York, will bq gratefully
acknowledged.
' HENRY CLEWS,
16 Broad Street, New York.
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
BY NIGHT AND BY
DAY ALWAYS TOIL
The editor of the Times-Recorder
must plead particeps criminis to the
cause of this effusion by the “Day bv
Day” column, referring to the versa
tile (as you will see from the article)
! paragrapher, editorial writer, stale
| news editor, and general all round
| roan of the Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
But, W. C. Woodall in his column
relates a story of one man which is
> applicable to many men. By substi
tuting "day" for “night” and then pos
sibly discarding a “better half” in
connection with the story, it will fit
many afternoon paper slaves.
"Day by Day” refers to “Night by
Night” in this way:
My good friend who labors two
trenches to the left of this (and who,
if he outlives me, will have the dis- 1
tinction of serving as one of my pall- 1
bearers) intimates that while Day by
Day” may be passably readable, ,yet
ar. entirely truthful column by the
same author entitled “Night by Night”
might be considerably more Ruminat
ing, not to say entertaining.
Studying closely the habit of poli
ticians, one notices that when a
charge of any nature is brought
against one of that gentry instead of
answering the allegation he immedi
ately files a still more sensational
charge against him who brought the
accusation, thus diverting attention
from himself. There is something in
this, and so instead of discussing the
intimation that our friend makes with
rather telling effect, it is the painful
duty of the writer to consider some of
the personal habits of the paragrapher
on this paper.
To begin with, it may be said, just
by the way of illustration: THIS
MAN STAYS OUT ALL NIGHT! Not
an occasional night, or every night, or
two nights and then skips a night, but
every blessed, solitary night there is. j
It was a habit formed years ago. it j
was possibly excusable then, but as
our friend approaches middle age (he
is now apparently around 40 years) it
would not be too much to assume that
his ways would gradually change.
But they.do not. This irregularity
not only continues, but has actually
been reduced to a system. At 7:20
o'clock each evening he leaves his
home. At 7:25 he enters The Eu
quirer-Sun office. At 7:27 (in season)
he removes and hangs up his coat. At
7:30 o’clock he begins to epen and
read various telegrams from the As
sociated Press —reads them shame
lessly and with a certain amount of
interest, although they are not ad
dressed to him at all, but to The Co
lumbus Enquirer-Sun. At 7:50 he re
moves from his typewriter and in his
most offhand way dashes off some
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of the paragraphs you read the next
morning. He then grinds out a heavy
1 editorial on the state of the country
i and how all our institutions will lan
i quish, and finally perish from the face
lor the earth if one Mr. Charles E.
i Hughes is elected. He then feels the
need of inspiration and so takes a
drink—from the cooler of ice water,
just behind the door. And so, in this
| exciting way, the night flies along—
■ more paragraphs, more editorials,
I more messages from the Associated
Press and occasionally a friend to en
tertain.
I have seen this man all alone in a
room—no one else concealed behind
the bookcase or under the table—and
I have seen him write, “WE believe that
’ the doctrines of democracy are good
1 for the country,” or “WE are sorry to
1 say it, but we cannot agree with Mr.
Sc and So in his views on Thus and
Thus.” There was really no “we” to
it. and yet this solitary individual sits
there, night after night in his sanctum,
using the first-person plural with all
the abandon that comes of long prac
tice.
For the first part of the night the
For Sale
As receiver of the Bank of Southwestern Georgia, I have an offer of
$17,300.00 cash for the farm known as the J. W. Burke place, and con
taining 2,764 1-2 acres, more or less in the 14th District of Lee County,
Georgia, to be sold by tract, and all personal property thereon, except the
cotton and cotton seed, said personal property consisting of sixteen (16)
head of mules and horses, twenty-five (25) hogs, large and small, corn,
fodder, hay and all wagons, farm implements, machinery, etc., and unless I
as said receiver, receive a better offer or bid for the same before O«t- 26th
1916, said offer will be submitted to the court for confirmation.
This, the 14th day of October, 1916.
L. d. COUNCIL,
As Receiver f the Bank of Southwestern Georgia.
newspaper has an aching void to be
filled—many, many columns. Along
about one o’clock the editor has an
aching void of his own to be filled—
purely a personal proposition. So,
unless habits have sadly changed in
recent years, he hies himself to the
little restaurant around the corner. I
have known this reckless individual
to drink as many as two cups of cof
fee in a night. He is strong on cheese
sandwiches and other expensive diet.
So the night wears along. After
four o’clock he doesn’t have a thing to
do, unless the press dispatches are
late, or unless he wants to get an
early start on the next night’s work.
When he gets home before daybreak
he feels like he is dissipating.
The writer gets no personal pleas
ure whatever in making this expose of
a friend, but he who suggests “Night
by Night ’ sketches must first be cer
tain as to his own nocturnal habits'
! CHRISTIAN HERALD
GIVES IOR RELIEF
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The first large gift—sls,ooo—in re
sponse to President Wilson's appeal
for the suffering Armenians and Syr
ians reached the office of Charles R.
Crane, Treasurer of the American
Committee for Armenian and Syrian
Relief, 70 Fifth Avenue, this morning.
It was from the Emergency Relief
Fund of the Christian Herald.
The check received this morning
makes a total of $20,000 which the
Christian Herald has sent to Armen
ia: $5,000 having been cabled some,
time ago through the State Depart
ment to representatives of the Com
mittee in Turkey.
The editors and management of the
Herald are entering into a wider pub
licity campaign in behalf of these suf
fering peoples and stated today that
the check just received would be fol
lowed by others as rapidly as possible
until provision had been made for at
least the necessities of life for these
people.
The Emergency Relief Fund of the
Herald has from time to time sent
large sums to stricken areas in China,
India, Japan and various portions of
the world. The management, however,
stated today that the great need for
the immediate future was in Western
Asia, where non-combatant people
through no fault of their own, have
been caught between the upper and
neither mill-stones, resulting in fam
ine and destitution that is perhaps
without parallel in modern history,
where as Theodore Roosevelt said »
recently “Armenians and Syrian ,
Christians suffer the last extremity of ]
horrof.” J
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vidends offer you the best
insurance at a lower cost
than you can buy it else
where.
Lee M. Hansford
Agent
Room 18 Planters Bank Bldg
Phone 715 Americus, Ga.
F. G. OLVER
Sewing Machines and Supplies; Key
and Lock Fitting; Umbrellas Repaired
and Covered.
LAMAR STREET, NEAR WELL.
i L. G. COUNCIL, Pres’t lie. 18»1 H. S. COUNCIL, Caakler.
1 ] C. M. COUNCIL, Vlce-Prea. T. E. BOLTON, Asst. Cashier.
i Planters’ Bank of Americus
CAPITAL SURPLUS AND PROFITS $225,000.00
TOTAL DEPOSITS (Sept. 19, 1916) $749,875£3
! With a quarter oi a century ex*
! perlence in successful banking I
I and with our large resources and ,
: close personal attention to every
1J $ m | $ >il interest, consistent with sound
; flOfe S 5 4 banking we solicit your patronage
1 Interest allowed cn time cer-
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Prompt, Conservative, Accommodating.
We want your Business.
No Account Too Large and None Too Small.
Member of Amerioui Chamber of Commerce.
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Americus Undertaking Co.
FUNEBAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS
Mr Nat LeMaster, Managei.
Agents for Rosemont Gardens
Day Phones 88 and 231 Night 661 and 13
Ti ALLISON UNDERTAKING COMPANY
. . . FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMDALMERS . > »
Daj Phones Night Phones
253 80 and 106
J. 51. BEARD, Director, Americus, Ga
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Commercial City Bank
AMERICUS, GA.
General Banking Business
INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS
1
I MONEY LOANED!
We make farm loans at 51-2 per centinteiestand
give the borrower the privilege of paying part oi
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
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New Building
Material Business
I am now prepared to fill orders fcr Rough and Dressed Lumber,
Shingles, Laths, Sash, Doors, Blinds, Builders’ Hardware, Paints,
Roofing, Mantels, Grates, Tiling Window and Windshield Glass, and
will promptly and cheerfully furnish estimates on building material
bills. Also have an Electrical Department, and will be pleased to make
prices on Electrical Supplies, Wiring and Repairs, and ask of my
friends and the public a share of their business in my line.
Yard—Plum & Hampton Streets
Office—2l9 Cotton Avenue
Phones—Office 271; Residence 240
W. W. McNEILL
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EMMETT S. HORSLEY
CIVIL ENGINEER Dawson, Ga
Have surveyed some of largest farms in Southwest Georgia. Large farm
surveys a specialty. References and sample of work gladly furnlehed. Sev
eral years experience in general surveying. Technical Graduate.
AUTOMOBILE. LIVERY
Dodge Service. Day or Nigbt
Prices Reasonable Terms:—Cash
L. L. COMPTON
Phone 161—Windsor Pharmacy Residence Phone 646
AMERICUS, GEORGIA
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1915