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PAGE EIGHT sou I (k readv /CWP a • Ljuj JfekC ■ 4miw rjfcT’ZF Have you made preparations for ths v.arm weather that is hurrying in this direction? You’ll need several suits of lighter weight underwear and our war mweather clothes will add to your general ense of comfort. Chances are that if you pay us a visit you’ll discover several articles of wear in our shop that belong in your wardrobe. W. J. Josey wH PWfllr Metal Roofing, Metal Ceiling. Sky lights, Roof Vents, Roof Gutters, Job Work and General Repairs. Roof Painting, Auto Radiators Repaired at a Live and Let Live price. B. H. ALLEN Lee St. Near Artlslan Well. Phone 783. Potato Plants Delivered April 7. Toma to plants now ready. W. A. GAMMAGE CHICHESTER S PILLS TBK DIAMOND BRAND. A Ladles! A»ky©«r Dnagglat for A\ > <'hl-ebea-ler*B Diamond BrandZAA Fill* in Bed and Gold rC—bo«es, seated with Blue Rd ■bon. V/ Ww Take eCher. Bay es your * F) DruerW. Ask for CIII.CIIEH-TF.R*S IC JF DIAMOND BRAND PILI.H, for 85 D yean known as Best, Safest, AI ways Reliable SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE KF- Ltv * I ’ Is Your Car Ready I f° r the 1 I Easter Parade? I I Shiny paint, new tires, tanks filled a I with oil and gas are no use unless I j JsJ your battery is in shape to put the I M spark of life into your motor. If you have not already had your battery tuned I up for the season, better see us right away. Now is the time to prevent battery troubles dur ing the coming season. We have a rental battery for your use if yours needs repairs. While you’re here, ask us for your Willard Serv ice Card. (CopnUbt wcMaxL inn /Americus Automobile Co. | WALTER RYLANDER, Manager J Newsy Notes of Interest For The District A. & M. College BY NORMAN ENGLISH. Personal Items, We were very glad indeed to have Mr. Lionel Williams, of Atlanta, with ut a few days this week. Lionel at tended this school several terms, and made many friends while here. Miss Macy Grey's essay on, “Jeffer son Davis and Abraham Lincoln. Their Services to the United States Govern ment, and the Principles for Which They Stood in 1861.” was selected out of all turned in from Americus schools by the U. D. C. We congrat ulate Miss Grey and this school. A certain gentleman, who seems to be very poorly informed on military tactics, exclaimed, as he watched us drill: "That is ragged, boys. I don't hear but one gun hit the ground when you halt." He learned a little about the tactics before he made any more remarks. It seemed a little like old times when Claude Calloway, better known as Buck, came to see us Thursday. Buck is just back from the border and we were mighty glad to see him once more. After a grand performance In Prof. H. J. Prance's class room. Rus sell Bridges was made official acrobat of the senior class. Mr. James Moran has returned from home. Literary Societies. The girls’ literary society had quite an unique program Saturday night. The meeting represented a district school, at which the students were preparing to give the trustees a re ception. It was quite amusing throughout the entire session. The boys also bad a very good pro gram. Per Capita Cost of Higher Institutions Receipts of higher educational in stitutions, including normal schools, per capita of population (1913-15): Delaware $5.65 Arizona 2.94 New Hampshire ..j 2.62 Nevada 2.53 Massachusetts • • • 2.51 Connecticut 2.43 Wisconsin 2.33 California ■ 2.30 North Dakotta 2.17 Minnesota 1.99 Oregon 1.83 New York 1-77 Illinois 1,768 lowa 1.... 1,714 Washington 1,711 South Dakota 1.64 Maryland 1-46 Virginia 1 1.45 Montana 1-44 Colorado 1 1.43 Kansas 1-38 Utah 1.38 Vermont 1,35 Michigan 1.35 Wyoming . . ..' 1.32 Idaho 1,279 Maine | 1,277 South Carolina i.... 1.04 Ohio 101 Pennsylvania 1-00 Rhode Island 93. New Mexico 92 Texas 83 New Jersey 81 Indiana • -77 North Carolina 75 West Virginia 71 Missouri 70 Louisiana 68 Tennessee 67 Mississippi 63 Florida ■ .60 Alabama 57 Georgia 1 54 Oklahoma 51 Kentucky ■ ,47 Arkansas 33 Are you willing to pay a little more in order to improve Georgia along ed ucational lines? The Rural School Term. The Hon. M. L. Brittain declares: “The state, county, or community, as a rule, has a good educational training as it at heart desires." This being true, the following extracts from the program of the Southern Conference for Education at New Orleans, is worth consideration: Hon. J. Y. Joyner, of North Caro lina, subject, “What is the Meaning of This?” North Dakota spends $9.62 per capita for the support of common schools; Minnesota, $8.33; Oregon, $7.60; Nebraska, $8.10; Kentucky, $2.87; Tennessee, $2.60; Georgia. $1.98; Alabama, $1.97. All good things cost. People who want a good school must be willing to THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER. pay the price—the better the school and the longer the term, the greater the cost. The plea of Henry A. Wise for taxation and education, delivered in 1856 on the occasion of his re tirement from Congress as represen tative of the Accomac district of Vir ginia, to accept the position of Min ister to Brazil, Is as appropriate now as it was then, when he said: “Tax yourselves.” First.—To pay your public state debt Second- —To educate your children —■ every child of them, at common prim ary free schools at state charge. That is my legacy of advice to you before I leave my country’s shores to return, perhaps, no more forever. Distrust all attempts to disturb the operation of a tax bill already passed. Disbelieve any set of men who come before you with false promises of freedom from taxation. Listen only to those sincere friends who will honestly tell you that you must be taxed, how much you ought to be tax ed, and who will counsel freely and fully with you beforehand as to the mode and subject of taxation. In a word, learn to love taxation as the only means of accomplishing such objects as those of paying the public debt and of educating your children,' rich and poor. See to it well that noj revenue raised for legitimate purposes ( ir wasted; see that it is all faithfully i applied to the true ends of govern ment, but be sure to raise enough and amply enough, for every kind of state necessity, usefulness and honor. There is no easy mode of taxation, no royal road to paying debts or to education. Industry, honesty, economy and educa tion alone can make you a free and happy people. Educate your children, all your children—every one of them! J. L. M’BRIAN. TO INVESTIGATE EASTERN FIELDS FOR INVESTMENT Russian and far eastern fields for American investments are to be in-j vestigated at once by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, of the Department of Commerce. A. W. Fer rin, president of the Moody Magazine and Book Company and editor of Moo dy’s Magazine, has been appointed trade commissioner to make the inves tigation and will sail from San Fran cisco on April 30. In the meantime he will visit some of the principal busi ness centers in this country and con cult with persons especially interested in the investigation. Mr. Ferrin will include in his trip Japan, Russia, China, the Philippines, the Dutch, British and French East In dies, the Strftits Settlement, Australia New Zealand, Ceylon, India and East and South Africa. He will study in vestment opportunities in these coun tries and will report on financial con dition, banking, railroad and public utility, and other forms of finance, with particular reference to the ex tension of American foreign trade. OF LOCAL INIERLSI Seme People We Know, and We Will Protit by Hearing About Them. This is a purely local event. It took place in Americus. Not in some faraway place. You are asked to investigate it. Asked to believe a citizen’s word; To confirm a citizen’s statement. Any article that is endorsed at home Is more worthy of confidence Than one you know nothing about, Endorsed by unknown people. Olin Johnson, chief of police, 232 Jackson St., Americus, says: “1 sup pose it is due to being on my feet so much that my back occasionally be comes lame. I have found that I can depend on Doan’s Kidney Pills, which I get at the Howell Pharmacy, to bring me quick relief. They are a medicine of great merit and deserve high praise.” Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Chief Johnson uses. Foster-Milburn Co.. Props., Buffalo, N. Y. POSTMASTERS ARE ALL UNDER CIVIL SERVICE WASHINGTON, March 31.—This Is the last day the postmastership of any city, town or village in the United States will be in politics. Be ginning tomorrow all postmasters will be appointed under civil service rules, regardless of political beliefs. The examinations will be competitive. Sen ator Poindexter of Washington de clared that President Wilson’s action in taking the postmasterships out of politics will not only improve the service but will save the country millions of dollars a year. It also takes the postoffice patronage from Senators and Congressmen. They are raid to be glad to get rid of it, on the theory that it was more trouble than it was worth. GEORGIA PLAYING SECOND < FIDDLE” IN VIOLIN CONTEST' i Georgia is now playing second fiddle' to both North and South Carolina in ' the interesting controversy over old violins. While the oldest violins known in Georgia are only about 150 years old,' A. F. Edwards, of Darlington, S. C, l has a violin which was made by Gas pard Prugger in 1517. making it exact ly 400 years old. The violin has Prug ger’s signature and the date in it, and is of unquestioned authenticity. It was in the McCullough family for cen turies before it came into Edwards’ hands. This beats even the 303 year old vio lin of W. H. Allman, of Asheville, N. C., which was supposed to have been the oldest in the South. HOKE SMITH TO ADDRESS GEORGIA EDUCATORS AT MACON One of the principal addresses at the coming meeting of the Georgia Ed ucational association in Macon, on May 3,4, 5, will be on die important sub ject of federal aid to education. This address will be delivered by United States Senator Hoke Smith, who is one of the joint authors of the. bill, recently made a law, which ap- j propriates a large sum from the na tional treasury for the purpose of en couraging and assisting the teaching of agriculture and training in domes tic economy and other vocational stu dies. The new law marks a decided de parture in the policy of the national government toward education in that for the first time it seeks to render di rect aid to the schools of the several states in the teaching of these par ticular subjects. The appropriation will mean much to the schools of Geor gia, and especially to the rural schools. The address ought to be heard by ev-I ery progressive teacher in a rural school. MASS IN MEMORY OF ALL NATIONS AT WAR TO BE SUNG BY MONSTER CHOIR NEW YORK, March 31.—A requiem in memory of the dead of all nations at war will be sung by a chorus of 350 voices, accompanied by an orches tra of 150 pieces at the Hippodrome here Sunday night. The choir was organized by John Watkins at Scranton, Pa., will be led by Edgar Varese, a composer invalid ed out of the French army and will be sponsored by Cardinal Gibbons and Bishop Greer. The requirem is the high mass for the dead. It Is one of the most pro found compositions of its kind. Start Tomorrow and Keep It Up Every Morning Get In the habit of drinking a glass of hot water before breakfast. We’re not here long, so let’s make our stay agreeable. Let us live well, eat well, digest well, work well, sleep well and look well, what a glorious condition to attain, and yet, how very easy it is if one will only 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 stag nant matter. Everyone, whether ailing, sick or well, should, each morning, before breakfast, drink a glass of real hot water with a tablespoonful of lime stone phosphate in it to wash from the stomach, liver and bowels the previous day’s indigestible waste, sour bile and poisonous toxins; thus cleansing, sweetening and purifying the entire alimentary’ canal before putting more food into the stomach. The action of hot water and limestone phosphate on an empty stomach is wonderfully 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 ex tracting a large volume of water from the blood and getting ready for a thorough flushing of all the inside organs. The millions of people who are othered with constipation, bilious spells, stomach trouble; others who have sallow skins, blood disorders and sickly complexions are urged to get a quarter pound of limestone phosphate from tiie drug store. This will cost very little, but is sufficient to make lar yone a pronounced crank on the subject of inside-ba’hing before break ' fast. advt. The Wagon You Can’t Overload In this day and time with graded roads throughout the country, it is not a question of how much can my mules pull, but “How Much Will My Wagon Carry?” We have used four of these famous wagons in our business for the last eleven years without even having to shrink a tire. Call and see our complete stock of the numerous mod els and different width tires. HARROLD BROTHERS., Agents “Ask the Man Who Owns a Mitchell.” fl® l ® • -* lArI Ar --c * riKe- ' wJLzbH* Delicious* 4 T'- • 80-k-HU By • I ' t ’!• T * Warren, Mgr. Jap' Americus, Ga. —* Perna BaSET ma asaSE kXxjl DO«TO.OO ■enmwredhatber Kit ouRING th I Lire OF THIS ADVERTISEMENT DURHAM DUPLEX RAZOR CO, ESFIED WITH YOUR COMPLEXION are of your complexion— F:' and your complexion Kill take can of you. ' URE AIDS. CHOOSE CREME EL.CAYA THE PURE. TOILET CREAM THAT HAS STOOD THE TEST FOR YEARS. \\xSdXW “Makes the skin like velvet” 9EMO 10C FOR LARGE SAMPL£ \'F' JAMES C. CRANE, 104 FULTON STREET. NEW YORK \ J J i-g—■—gggggg—ggggggßPMrt MAN WHO I W SCATTERS his money I TO THE WIND REAPS I THE WHIRLWIND ! 1 F you would own the best get a Grafonola of us today. Y They afford more real music with the possible surface noise. Our Record stock is better than it has ever been and we invite you here to hear the greatest of all singers. We are especially anxious that you hear Lucy Cates in “The Nightengale” and “Listen to the Mockingbird.” Ju& ask to hear record number 5937, it will delight you. To hear it is to want it; you jus! can’t resist its charms. Allison Furniture Co. J. W. KENFRUF, Mgr. SUNDAY. APRIL 1, 1917 1