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THURSDAY. MARCH 29, 1917
MAM IMPROVEMENTS BEING
MADE IN THE SOUTHEAST
< GLiiMBUS, Ga.. March 29. —The In
dustrial Index says in its issue for this
week:
“Public improvements by cities and
counties constitute an important fea
ture of tlie extensive and increasing
construction activity in the Southeast.
These improvements include the erec
tion of school buildings and city halls,
paving of streets and sidewalks, con
struction of sewers and waterworks
systems, establishing electric light
plants and building roads and court
house.
“Hillsborough county, Florida, will
build extensions of brick roads. Ala
chua county, Florida, will vote upon
the issuance of $500,000 of bonds for
constructing roads. Cherokee county.
South Carolina, voted $225,000 of road
bonds. Chilton county, Alabama, will
vote upon $200,000 of road bonds.
Koads will be constructed by Amite
and Forrest counties, Mississippi. Ma
con county, Georgia, voted SIOO,OOO of
bonds for constructing a bridge over
tlie Flint rh er. Griffin, Ga., voted
$125,000 of street paving bonds. Thom
asville, Ga., will vote upon $160,000 of
public improvement bonds and Arling
ton. Ga., will vote upon bonds for
establishing an ice factory and col l
Storage plant. Dalton, Ga., has
awarded a contract for street paving
and will pave about fifteen miles of
sidewalks. Streets will be paved by
Anderson and Fort Mills, S. C., and
Marietta, Ga. School buildings will
be erected by Chesterfield. S. C., Lin
con county, Mississippi, Mobile coun
ty, Alabama, and Duval county, Fla. -
“A total of sixteen corporations have
been formed during the week, with
minimum capital stocks aggregating
$607,000.
“A contract has been awarded for
the erection of buildings for a SI,OOO.
000 meat packing plant at Macon, Ga.”
ENGLISH WOMEN SMOKE AT
WORK SINCE WAR BEGAN
LONDON, March 29.—Women in'
England who smoke outnumber their |
American sisters possessed of the same
weakness. One sees in the restaur
ants as many who smoke as who do
not. It remained for the War to re
move the next to last restriction. They
are now smoking while at work in at
least one London office. The last re
striction will go when they are seen
smoking in the streets.
Male army clerks always have been
permitted to smoke while at work.'
Falling heir to many of the clerks’
jobs, the women have fallen heir to
the habit also. The only regulation
prescribed is that they must not smoke
before 11 o’clock or after 3 p. m.
Lock and Feel
! Clean, Sweet and
Fresh Every Day
Drink a glass of real hot water
before breakfast to wash
out poisons.
Life Is not merely to live, but to
live well, eat well, dress well, work
well, sleep well, look well. What a
glorious condition to attain, and yet
how very easily it is if one will omy
adopt the morning inside bath.
Folks who are accustomed to feel
dull and heavy when they arise, split
ting headache, stuffy from a cold, foul
tongue, nasty breath, acid stomach,
can, instead, feel as fresh as a daisy by
opening the sluices of the system each
morning and flushing out the whole of
the internal poisonous, stagnant mat
ter.
Everyone, whether ailing, sick or
well, should each morning, before
breakfast, drink a glass of real hot
water with a teaspoonful of limestone
phosphate in it to wash from the stom
ach, liver, kidneys and bowels th prev
ious day’s indigestible toxins; thus
cleansing, sweetening and purifying
the entire alimentary canal before put
ting more food into the stomach. The
action of hot water and limestone phos
phate on an empty stomach is wond
erfully invigorating. It cleans out all
the sour fermentations, gases, waste
and acidity and gives one a splendid
appetite for breakfast. While you are
enjoying your breakfast the water and
phosphate is quietly extracting a large
volume of water from the blood and
getting ready for a thorough flushing
ot all the inside organs.
The millions of people who are
bothered with constipation, billions
spells, stomach trouble, rheumatism: |
others who have sallow skins, bio >d
disorders and sickly complexions are
urged to get a quarter pound of lime
stone phosphate from the drug store
which will cost very little, but is suf
ficent to make anyone a pronounced
crank on the subject of internal sanita
tion advt
Holland Feels Restrictions
Put On Her Shipping by IVar
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, March
29. —Dislocation of the foreign trade cf
Holland, resulting from the restric
tions upon her imports and exports
imposed by the belligerents in thMr
economic struggle, is emphasized by
Dr. John Loudon, the Dutch minister
for foreign affairs; and F. E. Post
huma, minister of agriculture, indus
try and commerce. Their rei>ort. now
made public, holds particular interest
for America, as it deals in part with
the restrictions imposed upon the im
portation of American goods.
Virtually everything now’ imported
from Holland oversea, including goods
from Holland’s own colonies, the min
isters assert, has to be guaranteed by
the Netherlands Oversea Trust as be
ing for neutral destination and con- j
sumption. Even then, the Entente al- i
lies permit no goods to be imported by
Holland until they ascertain whether
the various articles are needed for
normal consumption in that country.
While this investigation is in progress,
the importations are detained by tlie
Entente even when they come from
Dutch colonies, America or other neu- 1
tral countries. Owing to objections on
the part of the British government, im- i
ports guaranteed by the Oversea Trust
sometimes are held up for months after i
their arrival in Holland.
Comes From Neutrals.
Exportations for Holland virtually
are limited to articles originating in'
neutral countries. This means thatl
Holland cannot export goods in which;
more than 25 per cent of the raw ma- ■
terials came from belligerent couu- ,
tries.
Earnest objections have been raised
against the action of Great Britan in
imposing regulations and restrictions
upon Holland’s exports, while permit
ting their own subjects to export the
same goods to neutral countries, under
conditions which the Dutch manufae-
Soy Beans Are Fine Product
For Planting by the Farmer
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 29.
Under certain conditions the soy bean
has many points of superiority over the
cowpeas, say specialists in the U. S.
Department of Agriculture, and the
average farmer will be well advised to
give this crop his serious attention. It
can be put to a wide variety of uses
and it can be grown wherever corn or
cotton is cultivated. For these reas
ons, it seems certain that it will be
come a far more important crop in the
United States than it has been in the
past. Its greatest development, how
; ever, should take place in the cotton
: belt where the later and larger variet
; ies which give yield:, that make their
i extensive cultivation profitable can be
grown.
From an agricultural point of view,
soy beans may be regarded as a for
age crop, as pasture, as a soil renova
’ tor, or as ensilage. As a cash crop,
I the value of the seed is sufficient to
; encourage the production of soy
: beans, and it is quite possible that the
' demand will be much greater in tlie
future. Soy-bean seeds contain a val
uable vegetable oil the consumption
o’ all varieties of which in this coun
try is steadily increasing. Further
more. soy beans have long been one of
the principal articles of human food in
the Far East and a greater familiarity
with the many ways in which they
may be utilized for this purpose should
increase the demand in this country.
The soil requirements of soy beans
are similar to those of corn, but the
plant will make a satisfactory growth
on the poor soil. The best results per
haps are obtained on medium loams.
A well-drained soil is not essential,
though water should not stand on the ■
land for any considerable length of i
time. The soy bean, however, can!
withstand a gerater amount of mois
ture than either cowpeas or corn. On
the other hand, it is much more
drought-resistant than the cowpeas. ,
Where the soil is of low fertility, or
sand predominates, good results have
been obtained from the use of com-'
mercial fertilizer. Lime almost in
variably increases the yield.
Sow After Frosts.
The beans may be sown at any time
after danger of severe frosts Is over,
but in the South, as a rule, it is pre
ferable to sow’ late varieties about the
same time as corn. An ordinary grain
drill, cotton planter, or corn planter
can be used satisfactorily in planting
large areas. The general practice for
s<ed production is the row method, 39
tc. 48 inches apart. For hay. soiling,
or green manure a drilled or broadcast
crop is customary, provided the land Is
not too weedy. Broadcasting requires
from 60 to 90 pounds of seed per acre,
and sowing In rows from 20 to 30,
11 turers are willing to observe. By this
t| action, the ministers said, Dutch pro-
■ ducts are replaced by products of oth
> er countries.
• Dutch exports and imports by over
' land routes are checked by prohibitions
• upon transportation issued by the Cen-
■ tral Powers. The contraband lists of
• the Teutonic allies has been extended
with damaging effect upon Holland’s
. trade.
The black list system put into effect
by some of the belligerents is declared
by the Dutch ministers to have made
. it impossible for many Dutch firms to
do business.
Obstacles placed by Great Britain in
the way of regular importations from
America of lubricating oils, benzine,
! gasoline and petroleum have had ser
■ ions effect. The British demand that
rubber goods and electric-technical
materials shall not be imported
from America but must come via Great i
Britain, has caused a scarcity of those
goods. Hospitals are suffering from a
shortage of rubber gloves, as one es- j
feet of this restriction.
| Holland has also felt severely the’
prohibition of export from Germany ot
raw materials for the manufacture of
iron and steel. Various industries
I have been obliged to restrict produc
i tion and others to stop all work, caus
ing unemployment.
Agriculture and market gardening
has suffered because of restraint of
! importation of fertilizers and cattle
i forage from South America and upon
1 agricultural implements. Ships have
I been compelled to leave in British
| ports materials destined for the gov
< rnment’s artillery works. Further
shipments for America were, in con
sequence, stopped until the materials
already shipped had been released, of
! ten after long negotiations. When new
’ shipments were made, these sometimes
suffered the same delay.
pounds. At least three cultivations
' should be given the crop.
As a forage crop, soy beans are
■ chiefly remarkable for the high con
tent of digestible protein in the hav,
which is comparable in feeding value
to alfalfa and red clover hay. In many
cases, however, it is perhaps more
profitable to use the crop as pasture
for hogs in combination with a ration
cf corn. Soy beans and corn may be
grown together or the soy beans may
be sown broadcast at the last cultiva
' tion of the corn. By planting at dif
ferent times or by planting different
varieties, the grazing may be extended
ever a considerable period. The refuse
vines and the manure resulting from
grazing add greatly to the fertility of
the soil.
When grown for ensilage, soy beans
are generally combined with corn.
Good results are secured from a mix
ture of two or three parts of corn and
one part of soy beans. Sorghum is
also grown with the beans both for
hay and for ensilage, and a combina
tion of soy beans and cowpeas makes
very satisfactory hay.
As a seed crop, soy oeans hitherto
have not been grown extensively ex
cept in a few sections. They produce
more seed t othe acre, however, than
cowpeas, and a yield of from 20 to 30
bushels should be expected from the
best varieties. The cost is generally
about the same as for corn, but, ini
computing the profits, not only the,
value of the seed but the benefit to the
land in which the beans have been
grown and the thrashed vines as a
source of feed must be considered.
In feeding value, the soy bean com
pares favorably with linseed and cot
tonseed meal and it is usually com
bined with some less concentrat id
feed. For milk and for butter produc-j
duction soy-bean meal is regarded as.
superior to cotton seed.
As human food, the soy bean is still
comparatively unknown in this coun-I
try. There are many ways, however,!
ir which it can be utilized. The bean
is remarkable for the small quantity
of starch it contains, and this fact
makes it desirable for many persons
who are required to avoid starch. The
dry beans may be used in baking I
in soup much like the ordinary field
or navy bean, although they require
somewhat long soaking and cooking, i
When from three-fourths to fu'l
grown, the soy bean compares favor
ably with the butter or Lima bean.
Soy-bean meal, or flour, may also be
used in any receipt which rails for
cornmeal. A combination that has
been found satisfactory is one-fourth
or one-third soy-bean flour and the
remainder wheat flour.
A new circular of the U. S. Depart-
iHt AMERICUS TIMxJn-KECORDER.
GOVERNOR WHITMAN IS
DETERMINED TO STOP BOXING
NEW YORK. March 29.—Governor
Whitman of New York is determined (
that before the close of this year box
ing will be kicked completely ot of
New York. His determination, he de
clared in recent informal discussions,
is unalterable. He is opposed to the
game from every angle.
The unfavorable publicity the game
has received in this city, the unfavor
able and unsavory bouts that have been
pulled off from time to time, Fred
Wenck’s unfortunate experience with
the hot end of that SIOO check and sev
eral other things, have soured Whit
man completely.
Wenck’s conduct in office was very
bad, and it was the stray that broke
the governor’s back. He announced
that Wenck would be removed from
office and then let it be known in an
unofficial way that no one would be
appointed to replace the deposed chair
man of the boxing commission.
Wenck did several things while tn
office that looked bad, among them be
ing his feat of borrowing S4OO from the
manager of a fighter, no small stunt.
He repaid the money, but Franklin D.
Lord, the governor’s representative,
who heard the evidence in charges
brought by Harry Pollok, John White
and others, held that Wenck acted in
disrespect to the dignity of his office
in asking for the loan.
As if this were not enough Wenck
permitted his office to be used on more
than one occasion as headquarters for
visiting boxers who were to appear in
New York rings. Not only did he do
that, but he even recommended a
"hustling young manager of a fight
club” to a former manager of Fred
Fulton, who asked regarding the sta
bility of clubs. He also indorsed a
note for $2,500 to help this manager
stage a match.
These things were bad, they nettl cd
the governor, and he was firmly de
termined to end the game for all time
when teh evidence was all in. Noth
ing can stop it in New York. The
Frawley bill is doomed, and there is
little wonder. The way promoters and
managers, not to speak of the boxers, (
have treated their liberties is enough
to shame anything into hiding.
I And, in passing, it is enough to pro
-1 veke a giggle to witness the fact that
in getting revenge on Wenck for re
fusing a license to conduct bouts in
Madison Square Garden, Harry Pollok
gave a perfect impersonation of the
man who cut off his nose to spite his
| face.
SOUTH AMERICAN UNIONS ARE
ANXIOUS TO ENTER A. F. OF L.
—— „ -
BHENOR AIRES, March 29.—Union
ists throughout South America today
are extremely favorable to the proposal :
of I’resident Samuel Gompers, of the
American Federation of Labor for a >
I Pan-American workers* combination. 1
“We agree in principle with Prost- <
' dent Gompers’ suggestion,” said Fran
cisco Rosanoba, secretary general of
' the Federation of Labor of the Argen- ,
tine Region, today, “and will work to <
accomplish the plan's realization.
I “To this end we are about to cor- 1
' respond with the American Labor Fed
’ oration officials who are pushing the I
propaganda. If we could we would I
take a still more active part in the <
work, but this is impossible at pres-
1 ent, owing to the lack of funds.
"We are enthusiastic in our support i
of the idea. We have always wished
for such a combination.” ! i
The federation Includes all the Ar
■ gentine labor organizations. It is un- 1
derstood that the leading members
have already received intimations that ;
the labor federations throughout South
Ameriet will co-operate in the move
ment.
ment of Agriculture calls attention to
these and similar facts and names a
number of the varieties which are
best suited for the various purposes
for which the crop is likely to be put.
ALL YOUR ORDERS ARE
EXECUTED PROMPTLY AT
Allen’s Drug & Seed Store
No order too small, or too large for us to handle, as we
give both attention to the strictest details, as we know
that carelessness in filling it will result in dissatisfaction
and inconvenience to our customers.
Remember our prescription department is unexcell
ed, and we have on hand at all times a fresh line of
Drugs, Toilet Articles, Cigars, Tobacco and Sundries.
GARDEN SEED—If you are looking for seeds that
produce we have them.
Allen’s Drug& Seed Store
Phone 148, Forsyth St
tThe Chautauqua of The
South, Macon, Georgia
ANNA CASE
Prima Donna, Metropolitan Grand
Opera Company, New York. One
of the greatest Sopranos of the
Generation. Thursday evening.
The Russian
IfW Will 11
111. ' ’I» ';V Orclwslra
:Hn It j MMt,£ • mH Fifty Russian Musicians
»Ycoining from New York,
mt.ul. Modest Altschuler,
Condtii tor. liiday eve
n’n £ Saturday morn
ing.
THE ROSE MAIDEN Cantata by the Chautauqua Choral Society. 300 singers with
the Russian Symphony Orchestra. Saturday evening.
Admission to each performance fifty cents. No opportunity like this ever before
within your reach and not likely to come again.
Friday: Good Roads Day. Great Auto Parade.
Saturday: Prohibition Day. Procession of Colleges, Societies, etc.
LOW RATE EXCURSIONS EVERY DAY
ROUND TRIP FROM AMERICUS $2.45
OLD PORTRAITS OF LOUIS XVI.
TO BE SOLD IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, March 29.—Fifty thous
and dollars' worth of portraits of the
French kings, soldiers and statesmen
of revolut’onary and Napoleonic times
will be sold from the Frederic R. Hal
sey collection at thff Anderson Aart
galleries here today. This sale is ex
pected to bring the total proceeds from
the Halsey collection sales to within a
few thousand dollars of the half mil
lion mark; the greatest sale of its kind
ever held.
Included in the collection today are
portraits by famous artists of the 17th
and ISth centuries of Louis XV., of
whom there are 40 poses, covering his
career from his marriage to Marie An
tionette at 16, up through his triat,
conviction and execution; forty-five
portraits of the famous daughter of
Maria Theresa, portraits of the leaders
of the reign of blood, Including Cal
onne, Necker. Beaubarchals, Mirabeau.
Marat, I’arere, Couthon and five por
traits of Charlotte Corday, the woman
who murdered Marat in his bathtu >.
including the wonderful stipple from
the drawing by Mauer, made when Cor
day was on trial before the tribunal.
The Empress Josephine and the Em
press Marie Louise also are repre
sented.
OLIVER TO BE GOVERNOR
OF DANISH WEST INDIES
WASHINGTON, D. C.. March 29.
Secretary Daniels of the navy depart
ment has i amed Rear Adm’ral Oli
ver, chief of naval intelligence here, as
governor of the Danish West Indies,
which the United States will formally
take over on Saturday. Important for
tifications are to be constructed upon
the islands at once, and they will be
used as a naval base by United States
warships in Caribbean waters.
We manufacture 'mattiesses that
give the maximum satisfaction in
* WfTVJ ft Wear and Comfort. We make mat
v auMr t tresses to order—our materials and
' glff i workmanship are unexcelled. Mod
-1 ® A erate prices.
-POPE MATTRESS COMPACT
AUTOMOBILE IIVIHY »<"»»■= Service
DAY OR NIGHT
Prices reasonable Terms:—Cash
I. I. COMPTON
Phone 161 Windsor Pharmacy Residence Phone 646
AMERICUS, GEORGIA
Fill your home atmosphere with exquisite lasting fragrance— '■
ED. PINAUD’S LILAC 1
| T.,j great French winner of highest internal. n. « D
I .'’•••.’■(ls. Each drop as sweet and fragrant as the living ’ Hj
\ blossom. A celebrated connoisseur said: “I don’t see how ■g
roti can sell such a remarkable perfume for 75 cents a bottle” —and R
remember each bottle contains 6 or.—it is wonderful value. Try it, Bi
Ask your dealer today for ED. UNAUD’S LILAC. For 10 cents H
cur American offices will send you a testing bottle. Write today. El
PARFUMERIE ED. PLNALD, Depl M ED. PINAUD Bldg., New VoA J j
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