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CHIRTY-NINTH YEAR.
'FEMES TO BE
GREAT POINTS AT
S.S. CONVENTION
.Among special features at the State
Sunday School convention, which will
be held in Savannah, May Bth, 9th and
itWh, will be a county Sunday school
officers’ supper and conference; an
adult Bible class parade, special mu
sic; an exhibit of modern Sunday
schools books, helps and equipment;
two afternoons of the convention given
over to departmental conferences; one
afternoon, the convention goes on a
special train to Tybee Beach.
The county Sunday school officers'
supper and conference is to be held at
the First Baptist church Tuesday night.
May Bth, when the county presidents,
county secretaries and divisions presi
dents, county secretaries and division
presidents from all parts of the state
will have supper together, after which
they will discuss their county affairs,
how to hold county conventions and di
vision conventions, etc.
The adult Bible class parade Wed
nesday night from 7 to 8:15 o’clock is
being featured and fully one thousand
men from the Sunday schools are ex
pected to be in line. Many of these
will carry placards, banners, flags etc.
In the afternoon sessions it has been
arranged for the convention to break
up into conferences. The Sunday
school teachers and officers who work
with pupils from thirteen to twenty
will be in one building, those who work
with children from birth to thirteen
will be in another building, and those
who work with pupils over twenty will
■ be in another building. The pastors,
superintendents and secretaries will
be in still another church. These four
conferences on the various phases of
Sunday school work held at the same
time make it possible for all Sunday
school workers to get just what they
want.
That all delegates might enjoy a
stroll on the beach and spend a couple
of hours in recreation, it has been ar
ranged for a special train to take the
convention to the beach on the last
afternoon, so they wHI be refreshed
and ready for the final climax ses
sion.
The music of the convention will be
in charge of Prof. E. O. Excell, of Chi
cago, assisted by his pianist, Prof. Er
vin. Both of these men are of na
tional reputation. It has also been ar
ranged for the celebrated “Rome Meth
odist Quartette” to render several
number at the convention.
There will be an exhibit of some of
the most modern Sunday school equip
ment and supplies from publishers,
as well as books on sale for the con
venience of any of the delegates who
wish to secure them.
All Sunday schools of the state are
asked to elect three delegates, be
sides pastor and superintendent. All
delegates will pay a dollar registration
fee, and then be given a package con
taining a song book, note book, pro
gram, badge and other things neces
sary to make them enjoy their stay in
Savannah. Then they are assigned
homes where they are given free lodg
ing and breakfast, the other two meals;
they get at restaurants downtown.
MONTH'S REVIVAL
BESINSIITUE CITY
F The revival meeting of First Meth
odist church and the Lee Street Metho- ;
dist church began yesterday at First'
.Methodist church, and gives promise
of proving very successful.
Rev. Arthur Moore, who will preach,
and Pianist C. D. Kidder, arrived this
afternoon, and the meeting will con-'
tmue for one month, closing May 20th. ]
O. W. Stapleton has charge of the
music and is already in the city.
The platform in the church has been
erected, and it is exepected that a large
i horus will be gathered to sing during
the meetings.
Rev. Paul W. Ellis and Rev. George
M. Acree, the pastors of the churches,
will assist with the work.
GfIMP SUMTER TD
MEETN TUESDAY
Camp' Sumter of United Confederate
Veterans, will meet Tuesday morning
at lo o’clock at their regular monthly
meeting. This announcement has been
made by Commander H. T. Davenport.
The meeting is important because the
, final plans for attending the reunion in
Washington are to be made. The veter
ans are urged to attend.
IfilsfmNOW
UP TO mALFOUR
LONDON. April 30.—1 n a statement
given to the Associated Press corres
pondent today, respecting the Irish sit
uation, Lord Northcliffe said the hap
piness of Ireland lies entirely in the
British mission in the United States,
northcliffe said the difference between
the two Irish parties here are so slight
Balfour’s influence can settle these
without difficulty.
JOHN INGRAM, AGED NEGRO,
DIED ON MITCHELL PLACE
John Ingram, an aged negro man,
died on the W. E. Mitchell place, sev
eral miles from the city Sunday night.
Ingram was a good and faithful old
man and had many friends who will
regret to learn of his death.
LITTLE HAMILTON
CHILD IS DEAD
.Mora Eula Hamilton, the twenty
months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
W. Leroy Hamilton, died Sunday night
at the home of her parents after an
illness of two or three weeks. The lit
tie girl was an exceedingly bright
child, fondly idealized by loving par
ents, and her taking away, is, indeed,
a sad event, in which scores of friends
extend profound sympathy. The fun
eral exercises will occur at 4 o’clock
this afternoon from the family resi
dence, with interment at Oak Grove
cemetery. Rev. Paul W. Ellis, pastor
of First Methodist church, will offi
ciate, and the pallbearers are T. M.
Merritt, Jr., Lewis Merritt, Jesse
Westbrook and James Bramblett. The
funeral arrangements are in charge of
L R. Eden, of the Allison Furniture
Com (any.
FOOD DILL PLACED
BEFORE CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 30.
Chaiman Lever of the house agricul
t iral committee, today introduced the
administration food bill, the measure
being designed to stimulate produc
tion and prevent hoarding of food sup
plies. The law would make provision
for the’equitable distribution of neces
saries and suspend the law prohibiting]
| the mixing of wheat flour with other
I grains. It also contains certain provis-]
] ions inserted to prevent a conflict
] with anti-trust and interstate com
; merce laws. Contrary to expectations,
the measure does not cover price-fixing ]
by producers and dealers, nor to pre
vent the use of grain for distilling li-J
quors during the period of the war. Itj
is stated a separate bill covering both
i these features will be introduced in ;
i congress later in the week.
' 1 RANK SCOTT’S FAMILY
WINNING WIDESPREAD FAMF
ATLANTA. Ga., April 30. —Judge
Richard B. Russell and other promin
ent Georgians who are justly proud of
itheir large families, will have to take
| a back seat in competition with Mr.
r-nd Mrs. Frank Scott, of Arkansas,
who have nineteen sons and two daugh
ters. So far as the newspapers have I
discovered their family is the largest
in the South. Are there any other
I competitors? If so, let them come for
pard and have their names entered for
honorable place in the Order of Old
- Fashioned Families.
RF.CRUITING'OFFfCE FOR AMERICUS LIGHT INFANTRY IS NOW OPENJIN THIS Cl IY--THE* NATION CALLS
AMEMB£®®«ROER
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
'OHM' NOW
IS THE OPINION;
OFGEHIWNSHEBE
WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 30.
That Count von Bernstorff, former
German ambassador to this govern
ment, spoke disparagingly of all Ger
mans in the United States, before the
war, has just come to light here. He
is quoted by a reliable authority as
saying such Germans “ran away from
the Fatherland to escape military ser
vice, and were outlawed," and that he
did not care to talk about them, nor
oid he care what they thought or want
ed. Senator Phelan, of California, in
a statement, commenting on the army
bill today, first revealed von Bern
storff’s secret attitude toward his coun
trymen in America. Senator Phelan,
relating the circumstances under
v, hich von Bernstorff gave utterance to
such startling sentiments, said the
epnversation occurred at Munich, In
Bavaria, when Phelan tried through
von Bernstorff to get a German exhibit
at the Panama exposition at San Fran
cisco. Revelation of the utterance was
withheld by Senator Phelan during the
continuance of friendly relations be
tween the United States and Germany
out of diplomatic courtesy toward the
Berlin government.
IIRIMEM
BOAT IS SUNK GT
GERMAN U-BOAT
LONDON, April 30. —The American
oil tank steamer Vacuum was sunk
Saturday by an enemy submarine,
while en route to the United States in
ballast from Bierkenhead, England.
The chief mate of the vessel and sev
enteen men, including three American
naval gunners who were on board,
have been landed at an English port.
A boat containing the captain and re
mainder of the crew of the Vacuum,
together with a naval lieutenant and;
nine naval gunners, is missing.
Vacuum Had Crew of Thirty-Four.
] NEW YORK. April 30.—The oil tank-;
ier Vacuum, commanded by Captain I
iS. S. Harris, of New York, left
here March 30th for Bierkenhed. Eng., I
and carried a crew of thirty-four, in- <
] eluding fifteen Americans.
LAKERS’ STRIKE AT ( lilt AGO
RESULTS IN BREAD FAMINE
CHICAGO. April 30.—A bread famine’
in many sections, accompanied by riot-:
it g in the ghetto district of Chicago.!
marked the inauguration of a bakers’!
strike here today. Hundreds of strike
sympathizers joined in rioting andl
spoiled hundreds of loaves of bread be- j
fore police interfered.
-■ ■ ■
“BUSINESS AS USUAL” SLOGAN
IS BEING ADOPTED IN ATLANTA
ATLANTA. Ga.. April 30.—The “Bus
iness As Usual” slogan which spreads
like wild fire over England in the lat
ter days of 1914. following the out |
break of the European War. is being]
adopted with enthusiasm in Atlanta:
and gives promise of spreading'
throughout the south.
In England the slogan conveyed the
same idea which President Wilson has
urged upon America, which is that
the most patriotic duty of the man who
cannot serve in the army or navy is to
stick optimistically to his job and
bend every effort toward maintaining]
commercial prosperity.
"Business As Usual” does not mean
that those who can uo so are to de
vote all their time to their personal
aqairs, however, but simply that a na
tion with business paralyzed cannot
successfully conduct a war, and hence!:
it is the patriotic duty of everyone to' i
keep his money in circulation.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON. APRIL 30, 1917
j * DAILY WEATHER FORECAST ♦
t ♦
> The weather forecast for Amer- ♦
♦ icus and vicinity follows: ♦
♦ FOR AMERICUS: Probably lo- ♦
♦ cal SHOWERS and thunder-
♦ storms Monday. ♦
♦ Tuesday: Cooler. ♦
GREEK KING QUITS
SAYS ONE RUMOR
LONDON, April 30.—A Rome dis
patch late this afternoon says a report
that King Constantine of Greece has
abdicated has been confirmed from a
neutral source.
DIRECT DESCENT OF KEY
ENLISTS IN MARINE CORPS
BALTIMORE, Md., April 30.—Fol
lowing in the footsteps of his illus
trious ancestor, Francis Deuber, a di
rect descendant of Francis Scott Key
the author of “The Star Spangled Ban
ner,” is now serving his country in the
arm of our national defense which will
be “First to Fight”—the Marine corps.
Private Deuber’s mother is a great
granddaughter of the author of our na
tional anthem, on the maternal side.
Deuber’s resemblance to his renown
ed ancester is said to be so noticeable
that many of those who have seen the
original Francis Scott Key picture have
commented upon the remarkable like
ness.
ATLANTA GRAND OPERA SEASON
TO BE CONTINUED NEXT YEAR
—:
ATLANTA, Ga., April 30. Grand
epera will be given for a week in At
lanta next spring by the Metropolitan
Opera Company unless the United
States by that time is so deeply in
volved in the war that the opera sea
son could not succeed financially.
Last week’s season, the eighth held
in Atlanta, was entirely successful,
loth from a financial and an artistic
standpoint, the receipts being surpris
ingly large in view of the more or less
general uncertainty caused by the en
trance of the United States into the
war.
Although the guarantee fund of $75.-
000 which Atlanta was required to put
up this year was the largest on record,
j tire receipts amounted to that and a
, little more.
HUGE AMOUNTS FDR
' ARMY AND THF NAVY
I
WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 30.—1
( Appropriations totalling $2,699,000,000]
Ito cover urgent deficiencies in the ]
I army and navy departments, were in
| eluded in the house bill favorably re
-1 orted by the appropriations eommit
i tee today. This appropriation is about
j 1760,000,000 less than army and navy
' department authorities recommended.
! it’ special reports sent to congress fol
! lowing the declaration of a state of
v ar with Germany.
BRAZIL ISSUES A
NEUTRAL WARNING
!
BUENOS AYRES, Argentine/ April
—(Delayed)—The government of Bra
zil has issued a proclamation: of neu
trality in the war between the United
States and Germany. (
COMMISSIONERS HOIjO
I SHORp' MEETING
A special meeting o ftlie county com
missioners was held tfvday at which
they selected W. E. Kinmington as roal
! tax collector, to fill a iacancy. Other
questions of interest tai on up were de-
I ferred until the regulaJr meeting.
BATTLE OF ABBAS
CONTINUE WITH
TERRIBLE FURY
NEW YORK. April 30.—(Compiled by
the Associated Press from European
cables during the day.)—The battle of
Arras still rages, with the issue in
doubt. For six days torrents of blood
have flowed and the armies od Great
Britain and Germany are still strug
gling for the mastery in a conflict that
baffles application of the superlative.
Tens of thousands of German reserves
have been hurled in vain against the
British, who foot by foot, continue to
advance.
Violent artillery fighting south of St.
Quentin, in which the French poured
destruction on the German defenses
there, is announced.
However momentous the results of
this bloody struggle, they seem insuffi
cient to hold the attention of the Ger
man people, who are now facing the
inauguration of a great general strike
tliat make shake the very foundations
of the entire country. On the eve of
May Day, the majority socialists are
supporting the government’s efforts
to either cajole or frighten the work
ers from striking, while even the radi
cal minority seem frightened at the
possible results of the agitation they
themselves fostered.
CONGRESS TAKES
IIP ARMY BILLED
SMOOTH IT OUT
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 30.
Congress is at work today to smooth
away differences between the drafts of
the war army bill as passed Saturday
night by the senate and house. With
the administration’s plan of raising the
country’s millions of fighting men by
selective draft accepted in both houses
ty overwhelming majorities, it is re
garded as certain that points in dis
pute can be disposed of in conference
so that the measure may go to the
president for his signature before the :
end of the week. The parliamentary
tangle resulting from the almost sim
ultaneous action by the two houses re
quin s the next move to be made on
the senate side. The bill must be re-]
passed iyiere with unlimited opportun-i
ity under 1 .strict interpretation of the]
rules for further debate and amend-,
ment. It tk»en will go to conference
with the principal task that of harmon i
izing the two houses on the maximum
conscription age, fixed by the senate ■
at 27 and bv the house at 40.
J—
AMERICAN* TOBACCO ( O’S
UNIQUE ADVERTISING SCHEME;
NEW YORK. April 30. —By combin-]
iug appeals for enlistment in the U. S.
Marine corps with their commercial
advertising, the American Tobacco Co .
through the Hawley Advertising Co., I
of this city, is the pioneer in devoting
p.art of its contract advertising space
Xc patriotic appeals, as advocated at i
recent luncheon of the bureau of ad
vertising of the American Newspaper
Publishers’ association, at the Waldorf-
Astoria.
In a huge advertising campaign just
launched for “U. S. Marine” tobacco,
tl ree-quarters of the contract space is
devoted to an appeal for men to join
the marine corps and be “First to
Fight.”
FIFTY-FIFTY WEATHER
PREDICTED FOR
ATLANTA, Ga„ April 30.—The]
: weekly weather bureau forecast for the
South Atlantic and East Gulf states
I for the week ending April sth. indi
I cates frequent showers will occur the
I first half of the week, and the latter
half will be fair. Cooler weather will
prevail during the first part of the
week and the temperatures will be be
low the seasonal normal thereafter.
REV. MOORE OPENS
MEETING TONIGHT
Rev. Arthur L. Moore, who was to
b( gin the revival services here at
First Methodist church Sunday, di 1
not arrive, owing to the fact that he
had not finished with his work at
3 homasville. He will arrive today in
time to open the meeting tonight, it is
stated.
FEOEROnTs to
MEET SITUATIONS
WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 30.
Assurances have been received by the
Federal Reserve board from scores of
state banks and trust companies scat
tered throughout the country that they
will enter the federal reserve system
immediately upon passage of certain
amendments pending before congress,
broadening the scope of the federal re
serve law.
The board today recommended to
Secretary McAdoo of the treasury de
partment, that funds secured by the
government under the seven billion
dollar war finance law be obtained
gradually from the people by offering
to the banks blocks of treasury certi
ficates every two weeks, these certifi
cates to be retired later by bonds.
CHINA IS LXPEGTFD
ThEGHRE WAR
PEKING, April 30—A declaration of
war by China against Germany is ex
pected within two weeks. The special
commission for international affairs
designated by the government, has ad
j vised that China enter the war. The
j question will go shortly before parlia-
I ment. The American minister. Dr.
Paul Reinsch, held a reception at the
legation today to twenty provisional
military governors, composing the mil
itary conference which recommended
recently that China declare war. The
governors were received with full mil
itary honors by the legation guard and I
were welcomed by Dr. Reinsch and;
prominent members of the American .
'colony. The minister made an ad-|
dress congratulating the governor’s
on evidence of co-operation in all parts'
of China, and assured them that they
had the best wishes of the United
States. General Han-Shu-Chang re-
S( ondeil for the governors, saying they
realized the United States was China’s'
best friend.
STATESBORO CASE i
HAS SEEN SETTLEO
]
STATESBORO, Ga.. April 30.—1 n the
.
1 Superior court, with Judge Harde
' man on the bench, Paul Simmons, who
; several months ago shot and danger
lously wounded Heyes E. McMath, plead
I guilty to the commission of a misde-
Imeanor, and was fined SI,OOO. The
fine was paid.
' This writes the final chapter in a
lease that has stirred all of States
boro and Bulloch county. McMath was
shot while in the lobby of a hotel.
For a time it was believed McMath
would die of his wounds, but he recov
; ered and entered suit against Rafe
I Simmons and the others for $70,000.
‘ Recently, a movement was started to
i
settle all the differences of the parties
! concerned out of court, and this has
been done. It is understood McMath
has been paid $12,000 damages by the
Simmons family, and the civil suit has
I been withdrawn. He also consented to
having the charge against Paul Sim
mons reduced to a misdemeanor.
During the negotiations, which have
gone over a period of several weeks,
McMath has been represented by H. B.
Stranfie and J. R. Roach as his attor
neys. There were a large number of
attorneys representing the Simmons
trio, F. T.’Lnnier being leading coun
sel for that side.
C’XY
THOUSNNOS ME
URGED TONTTEND
BIG CONFERENCE
Thousands of personal invitations
are being sent out to farmers and busi
ness men in this section of the state
to attend a conference to be held tn
Americus on Wednesday morning, at
10 o’clock at the courthouse. District
Agent J. G. Oliver and County Demon
strator W. J. Boyett are busy in send
ing out literature and invitations to
the meeting.
The call for the farmer is greater
than the call to arms, and the work
is being urged everywhere.
Dr. A. M. Soule, president of the
State College of Agriculture, will be .»
1 rominent speaker, and he is a noted
authority on agricultural questions.
Gifford Pinchot, a national leader
and well known in the affairs of the
nation, will be one of the speakers at
the meeting Wednesday. The an
nouncement was made this morning
by Secretary P. A. Fenimore. of the
Chamber of Commerce. His career as
a national official with the forestry de
partment of the government is well
known, and his coming here to speak
on this occasion as a patriotic call for
the government gives promise of great
interest. It is likely that Commis
si >ner Brown, and assistant Commis
sioner Groover will forego their ad
dresses to give more time to Mr. Pin
shot.
Among the other speakers will be
Commissioner of Agriculture J. J.
Brown and assistant Commissioner of
Agriculture Ben L. Groover.
An interesting article by Bradford
Knapp, a well known authority, is Be
ring sent to the farmers, together with
jthe following notice of the meeting:
j "War exists. Food is need?d as the
first essential. Not the president’s
tvords: 'Upon the farmers of this
country, therefore, in large measure,
tests the fate of the war and the fate
of the nations. The variety of their
crops will be the visible measure of
their comprehension of their national
duty.’ This is the call to the hoe. A
conference has been called for Wed
nesday, May 2nd, at 10 o’clock a. m., at
the courthouse in Americus. This call
I has been made in accordance with the
I national plans for food production and
] conservation. The principal speakers
| lor the occasion will be Dr. Andrew M.
I Soule, president of the State College of
; Agriculture, and either Hon. J. J.
Grown, commissioner of agriculture,
or Hon. Ben L. Groover, his assistant.
Come and bring others with you. This
| means bankers, supply merchants and
i ether business men, farmers, proses-
I sional men, ladies, children and any
' and all others concerned. Come.
“J. G. OLIVER,
“District Agent.”
| SMITHVILLE ( HATAUQUA IS
OPERATION THIS WEEK
The chautauqua arranged by Smith
ville people is in progress there this
week, with an excellent program ar
ranged for today. There are quite a
number of people from Americus and
I.eesburg attending the feast, among
these being E. J. McMath, Sumter
county’s superintendent of education,
who is on the program for a talk, and
his brother. Dr. J. F. McMath.
t
Iffl FESTIVAL TO
At EVEBT TUESDAY
On tomorrow morning al 9 o’clock
the students of the Furlow Grammar
school will present their May Festival
which has been arranged under the di
rections of Miss Lena Hardy.
The festival will be presented ou
the lawn in front of the school, well
adapted for this feature. It will in
clude tableaux, folk dances, choruses
and many events of interest.
The public generally is cordially in
vited <o witness these events.
NUMBER 103.