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Associated Press Service.
khirty-ninth year.
* DOUBLE SESSION
SYSTEM WILL NOT
BE STARTED NOW
/rhe ‘‘double day session” plan of op
eration will not be followed in the pub
lic schools of Americus for the pres
ent, at least, according to the action
taken last night at the regular month
ly meeting of the Board of Educa
tion. I
The proposition to alter the educa
tional system in this city to the ex
tent of lengthening the daily sessions
, was thoroughly investigated by a spec
ial committee appointed from the mem
bership of the Board of Education and
at the meeting last night this com mis
' pion made its recommendations which
were acted upon favorably by the
toard.
The decision to make no change at
present in the length of the school ses
sions quiets much agitation among
many of the patrons of the school, w’ho
have opposed the ‘‘double session”
plan.
The committee’s report is as fol
lows:
To The Board of Public Edication of
the City of Americus:
Reference question of extending
school sessions in our public schools
to the School committee for investiga
tion :
Your committee begs to report that
they have jointly-and severally made
diligent inquiry through such sources
and of such persons as they thought it
possible to obtain information. They
have invited suggestions and argu
ments, and have listened to much elo
qucnce and logic on both sides of the
question. A duty apparently easy to
be performed and of short duration,
developed, as your committee pro
gressed with its work, into an almost
impossible task, so far as being able
to proffer any advice; as the result
of tho proposed change from the pres
ent system, could only be a matter of
conjecture.
Our report, therefore, will deal prin
cipally with facts found to exist under
the present system, and which your
committee submits for your considera
tion, to-wit:
Ist. Practically all, if not all, the
children in school take their books
heme at night for study, and practical
ly claim this to be necessary in order
to meet the requirements of the
grades.
2nd. There are about two hundred
and fifty children now in school who
take music during the afternoon hours,
after the regular public school hours.
3rd. Our present system does not
provide for teaching music in our pub
lic schools.
4th. A number of boys without
means, dependent upon the daily earn-|
ings of themselves and family, havei
positions which enable them to do]
work in the forenoon before school and j
in the afternoon after school. Under
the proposed change they' would either
be deprived of the positions they hold,
or deprived of the school advantages.
sth. During the last two years three
new features have been added to the
curriculum of he school, to-wit:
(a) Domestic science, which your
committee has reason to believe is
progressing;
(b) Manual training, which your-
committee also has reason to believe is ,
progressing with decided benefit to the,
children; j
(c) Military, which we regard as a
success, although the newest of the,
three new features.
Manual training and domestic i
- science are both in the nature of voca-|
H tional training, which might also be
said of the military feature. From in-1
formation obtained of superintendents;
ot schools in which vocational trainingl
has succeeded, as it progresses it nec-j
cssarily takes more time, as well as j
more teachers, and under our system
of teaching, the only additional time
would be in the afternoon.
Therefore, if we succeed in these fea
tures, as we hope to. the extendd, or
doubl daily session will necessarily
follow in the course of time.
We find that some of our own teach,
ere have had experience in the longer/
ir double daily session schools, as well
is the single session schools, and from
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HUfIDHFDS OF fill
LOST
LONDON, May 2.—Compilation of
statistics revealed in British, French
and German official communications for
J the corresponding time shows the
Germans lost a total of three hundred!
and sixty-nine airplanes on the west-
• ern front duirng the month of April.
French and Belgian planes lost during 1
the same .period numbered two hundred
and one, while British machines dam- j
aged beyond repair or felled by enemy
methods numbered one hundred and
forty-seven, a total loss for the Entente
Allies of three hundred and forty-eight
machines, or twenty-one machines less
than were sacrificed by the Germans. ’
Notwithstanding the superior losses
sustained by the Teutons, control of tfie
air is now declared to rest with the
Entente. The figures referred to show
a great increase in the aerial losses
on both sides over any similar period
since the beginning of hostilities.
MUM CfiPTftlN
HAS SEEN LANDED
LONDON, May 2. —Nine additional
survivors, including Captain Harris, of
the American tanker Vacuum, w'hich
was sunk recently by a German sub
marine, were landed at a British port
early today. The landing of these men
makes twenty-seven accounted for
from the total of forty-five men on
board the Vacuum when the vessel
went down.
Earlier dispatches reported Capt.
Harris and “one boat with nine men,
including an American naval lieuten
ant” as unaccounted fpr. The forego
ing fails to state whether or not the
naval lieutenant was saved, although
it is known that three of the gunners
aboard the Vacuum when the ship
was destroyed have already been res
sued.
Lieut Thomas Lost Life.
LIVERPOOL, May 2.—Lieut. Thomas,
in command of the naval gunners on
beard the Vacuum, lost his life, accord
ing to a statement by Capt. Harris,
who reported eighteen men in his crew
had been lost, together with eight gun
ners. Eighteen of the crew of and
gunners, counting all, were rescued.
H ANT W<»OD AM) JOFFRE TO
WITNESS RAISING OF FLAG
ATLANTA. Ga., May 2. —Atlanta’s
community flag-pole, paid for with a
public subscription has been been 1
erected, and the raising of the flag now
waits the arrangements of General
Leonard Wood and Marshal doffre, who
j have been invited to come to Atlanta
| and run up the flag on its maiden jour
i ney to the masthead.
The pole stands at Five Points in the ■
I heart of the city, facing the Fourth Na
tional Bank building, and is made of
steel tubing painted in white enamel.
Twenty feet above the ground is a
small crow’s nest, where the flag will
be kept when taken down.
I
RUSSIA AND BELGIUM TO
GET LOANS FROM AMERICA |
WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 2.—The'
amount of the first loan to France and I
I Italy. Secretary McAdoo announced I
I last night, will be $100,000,000 each j
! They will be made immediately to meet
' the requirements of thoSe countries in
May. The first installment, about $25,-
000,000 of the Italian loan probably
I will be made today. A loan to Russia
also will be made, McAdoo stated, and
I the loan to Belgium is under consid
eration. It was learned authoritative
ly tonight that in addition to the chief,
GEORGIANS
WHY SERVE AMONG STRANG! RS AND LOSE YOUR IDENTITY?
IN AFTER YEARS WILL YOUR COMRADES-IN-ARMS BE YOUR
NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS?
SERVE WITH THE ELITE TRGOPS WHERE THERE IS NO SUS
PICION OF COMPULSION.
APPLY’ FOR ENLISTMENT TODAY IN
THE AMERICUS LIGHT INFANTRY,
Co. I,2nd Ga- Inf.
RECRUITING OFFICE FOR AMERICUS LIGHT INFANTRY IS NOW OPEN IN THIS CITY—THE NATION CALLS
. AMERILLIS TIMtS-RELCROEfi
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
AMERICUS. GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. MAY 2. 1917
VEIL OF SECRECY
ISTHRDWNABDUT
GENIRMJMPIRE
NEW YORK, May 2.—(Compiled by
'Associated Press from European ca
bles during the day.)—Beyond official
jly inspired dispatches from Berlin
stating no disorders marked May Day
in Germany the veil of secrecy about
the central empires continues unbrok
' en, so far as direct news is concerned.
Dispatches from the German frontier,
' however, speak of great strikes, and
rumors increase regarding the grow
ing unrest of the Teutonic people. Ev
-1 erything points to a potential crisis in
' the affairs of Germany, while Austria-
Hungarian workmen are demanding
internal reforms in a manner unknown
since the war started.
No disorders are reported either in
Austria-Hungary', Sweden or Norway
where the labor holiday was generally
celebrated.
Severe fighting began on the Ru
manian front yesterday, according to
a German announcement, which said
the Russians lost heaviy in attacking.
Turkey annouced the occupation of
Mush, Turkish Armenia, following Rus
sian evacuation of that place.
The Germans made several attacks
last night on the French front, and
it is announced they were partially
repulsed. Artillery is active on both
the Champagne and British fronts.
11-85115 MIE DOING
IDLIDLUIIGL
WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 2.—Sec
retary Lane told the governors confer
ring with the Council of National De
fense here today that the federal gov
ernment was informed that German
submarines sank 100,000 tons of ship
-1 ping during last week.
Secretary said that submarines
are now threatening the existence of
France and England, and that he be
lii ved tlie war would last several years.
He said that Herbert C. Hoover, former
director of the American commission
for relief in Belgium, had informed the
'government that Germany has sufficient
food on hand to last two years, and
perhaps even longer. He urged the
necessity of building ships rapidly.
President Wilson, who also spoke to
the governors, said that every force of
the United States should be turned to
ward the one supreme object of win
ning the war.
American Steamer is Sunk.
LONDON, May 2.—A German sub
marine has sunk the American steamer
Rockingham and thirteen of the crew
are missing.
75 Nofee Vessels Sunk During April.
CHRISTIANIA, Norway, May 2.—i
German submarine sank seventy-five
i Norwegian vessels during April, and
more than a hundred Norwegian sail-,
ors lost their lives. If such monthly I
loss is continues, statistics show that I
Norway's entire merchant navy will
1 be destroyed within eighteen months.
Hectorla and Langland Sunk.
LONDON, May 2.—According to a
Central News dispatch late today, Ger-|
man submarines have sank the Norwe- ‘
gian steamers Hectoria and Langland. I
Tin crews of both ships were saved.
allied nations, Serbia has made ap
plication for a loan and that the loan
•s under consideration.
> DAILY WEATHER FORECAST ♦
t ♦ .
> The weather forecast for Amer- ♦
♦ icus and vicinity follows: *|
FOR AMERICUS: Fair tonight ♦
♦ and tomorrow. V
> ♦
♦ AMERICA PREPARING— ♦
♦ SHRAPNEL SHOT FROM ♦
♦ A WIDE FRONT ♦
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
NEW YORK, May 2.—Betsy Ross
ai d Martha Washington have replaced
style displays in Fifth Avenue win
dows.
LCS ANGELES, May 2.—A promin
ent Hobart Boulevard club woman is
doing her bit in the economy campaign
by gding barefoot about the house and
yard to save shoe leather.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 2.—Thous
ands of men in Ohio are preapring to
take a military census of the state be
tween sun-up and sunset.
OXFORD, Ohio, May 2.—Girls of
Western College are studying chauf
feuring under an expert automobile en
gineer and volunteering for garrison
work on the 400 acre college farm.
UGENE, Ore., May 2.—One third of
the men in the University of Oregon
are prepared to answer the first call
to the colors, Dean John Straub esti
mates.
NEW’ YORK, May 2.—A fifteen acre
elk range in the Bronx Park Zoo is be
ing planted in potatoes, while the elk
are herded in pens.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 2.—One
hundred pleasure boats on the Great
Lakes probably will be transported to
the Atlantic to join the mosquito fleet
cf submarine defenders.
LOS ANGELES, May 2—Saloon keep
ers have launched a campaign to stop
war talk—frequently accompanied by
fights—in saloons of the city.
NEW YORK, May 2. Alexis Zsminz
hrpyvichi tried to join the marines,
but his naturalization papers were as
twisted as his name and he couldn’t.
HDLLWEG POSTPONES
HIS PEftGE SPEECH
COPENHAGEN, Sweden, May 2.—The
German imperial chancellor’s speech
before the reichstag on peace and in
ternal relations in Germany intended to
Ibo delivered Thursday, has been post
poned until a more fitting occasion, ac
cording to word received here.
SWEET PfIWOES ARE
URGED BY UKCLE SAM
WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 2.—The
! department of agriculture today issued '
a forrpal statement urging the devotion I
' ot increased acreage to the production
lof sweet potatoes in the Southhern
' states. The bulletin explains that by
I using cuttings from early set plants it
lis possible to plant an acre o' sweet
potatoes at a cost of $4, compared with
S4O, the average cost of seeding an
acre in irish potatoes.
■ ENGLISH PEOPLE URGED
TO REDUCE BREAD RATION
LONDON, May 2.—King George
signed a proclamation urging all fam-;
ilies to reduce their bread consump-l
t ion by at least one-fourth from that 1
of normal times. 7ae proclamation,
urges greatest economy in the use of|
grains.
TO INSURE LIVES OF OFFICERS
AND MEN ABOARD VESSELS
WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 2.—Sec
retary McAdoo recommended to con
gress today that the government war
risk bureau be empowered to require
the owners of all vessels insured by
the government to take insurance on
the lives of officers and crews of such
vessels in amounts ranging from SI,OOO
to $5,000 for deaths, with proportionate
indemnity for injuries sustained.
GERMAN LOSSES
IN MILLIONS IS
NEW ADMISSION
AMSTERDAM, Holland, May 2.—One
million, three hundred thousand Ger
mans, in round numbers, have perish
ed during this war, according to Jos
eph Friedrich Naunann, formerly a
conservative member of the German
reichstag. Naunann said this, to
gether with decreased births, because
of the mobilization of so many males
at the front, has resulted in a reduction
of the total population of Germany of
three million, eight hundred thousand
persons. He said further that the sur
i plus of females in Germany now totals
more than two million.
German Political System a Failure.
AMSTERDAM, Holland, May 2.—The
Hamburger Fremenblatt, at the end of
a three column editorial in its issue
reaching Amsterdam today, comes to
the conclusion that Germany’s political
system is a failure, as shown by the
history of the whole war, and much
be changed. The newspaper advocates
the removal of the bureaucrats to per
mit parliament and the government to
work in closer touch one with the
| other.
K.IIF F. WILL MEET
111 LESLIE 111 Mil
LESLIE, Ga., May 2.—The program
for the forthcoming meeting of the
Third Congressional district conven
tion of the Knights of Pythias, which
convenes at Leslie on Tuesday, May
! Bth, has been completed, and given to
the press. It is as follows:
Tuesday, May Bth, Morning Session.
Public Invited.
10:15 a. m. Special Music rendered
by Leslie Orchestra.
10:30 a. m. Convention called to or
der by E. L. Wilson.
Invocation—Rev. c. E. Cook.
Address of Welcome in Behalf of l
Town.—Mayor F. P. Jones.
Address of Welcome in Behalf of |
Leslie Lodge, K. of P.’s —J. J. Wilson. |
Response to Addresses of Welcome.
—J. W. Bivins.
Special Selection —Leslie Orchestra.
Address, "Pythianism”—Col. J. E.
' Sheppard.
Address, “Loyalty to One’s Coun
try.”—J. T. Royal.
Special Selection —Leslie Orchestra.'
A Patriotic Address —T. O. Marshall.
"National Overtures'- Leslie Or
chestra.
Adjourn for basket dinner of which
the public is invited to partake heartily
Convene at 2:30 p. m. for Business
Convention.
Convention called to order by Pres.
R. E. L. Eason.
Opening Address by Geo. C. Schau
fele, Grand Cchancellor, Augusta. Ga.
Roll Call of Officers.
Reading Minutes of Last Meeting.
Report of Committee on Credentials.
Reports from Lodges.
Reports of Committees: (1) Finance;)
(2) Publicity; (3) Good of the Or-;
der.
“How to Keep Suspensions at a Min-;
inium”—Wm. H. Leopold, G. K. of R. I
& S., Savannah, Ga.
General Discussion: “How to Have
a Live Lodge.”
Exemplification of the Unwritten
Work —Wm. H. l>eopold.
Election of Officers.
Selection of Place of Next Meeting.'
Adjournment.
At 8 p. m. Tuesday night the rank
of Esquire will be conferred. Rank of
Knight will also be conferred in Am
plified form by the drill team from
Fitzgerald lodge.
Officers of the Pythian district or
ganization are:
President, R. E. L. Eason, Ellaville;)
president, A. E. Jackson, Cordele;
chaplain. Dr. W. D. Sears, Ellaville;
secretary-treasurer, C. C. Wall, Ella
ville; master of work, T. F. Hemin
ger. Fitzgerald; sergeant-at-arms, John
Ard, Lumpkin; inner guard, J. T. Bol
ten, Leslie; outer guard, B. J. Ranew.
11. 4 M. WILL BATTLE
FL VALLEY TOMORROW
XAt the ball park tomorrow afternoon
the Third District A. & M. school will
clash with the Fort Valley High school
in the second game of the season be
tween these two aggregations. ✓
The first battle resulted in a victory
. for the Houston county contingent, but
the A. & M. boys confidently expect to
. turn the tables on their opponents to
. morrow for the team has been mataf
. ially strengthened in several depart
ments.
The line-up of the teams will be as
i follows: Ft. Valley, Muscovite, lb.;
i Maddox, ss.; Hartley, 2b.; Cowart, p.;
Murray, rs.; Hiley, cf.; M. Murray, c.;
‘I Jones, 3b.; Feagin, If. Third District
A. & M., Bridges, ss.; Moran, If; Le
. vie, 2b.; Smith, cf.; Hill, 3b.; Chappell,
i Uk; Mathews, rs.; Dorman, c.; Pan
tone, p.
TWO ADDRESSES FOR .
U Iyi.CDMMENCEMENT
The commencement functions at the
Third District A. & M. school this
year are to be featured by two ad-'
,<liesses delivered by speakers who are'
well known throughout the state, and. I
in fact, in the entire South.
The exercises will open on May 14th, I
when Mrs. Nellie Peters Black, of At-'
lunta, president of the State Federa
tion of Women’s clubs, will deliver an i
address on “The Develo<pment of I
Man,” Mrs. Black, who not only on
I account of her prominent place in the
women’s organizations of Georgia, but
by reason of her agitation of vital
questions relating to the people ot
! this state and the South, is recognized
;as one of the most progressive think
| crs.
■| On May 18th the closing address of
1 ■ the graduating ceremonies will be de
; livered by EL H. McMichael, of Buena
' j Vista.
Mr. McMichael, who is ex-representa
tive from Marion county and also a
former state senator, is the author of,
the McMichael bill for special school i
taxation under which 39 counties in'
Georgia are now operating their edu-'
ca tional systems.
His address will mark the conclus I
’ ion of the commencement exercises at
I the A. & M. school.
| Various functions of extraordinary
I interest are being arranged for the
commencement week, detailed an
nouncement of which will be made.
within a few days.
SIRMONS HAS RESIGNED AS
STEWART COUNTY WARDEN
LUMPKIN, Ga., May 2.—lt is with
i regret that people of Stewart couny
' ty have to give up as warden Mr. W.
iH. Sirmons, who has served in that
; crupaclty here for quite a number of
j years. Several days ago he tendered
, his resignation to the board of county I
j commissioners, same to take effect on
■ May Ist. He is most efficient in teh
| matter of road work and fully capable
■as a manager of help. Under his di
; rection the roads of Stewart county
j have been much improved, and his
j work is appreciated. He has the very
i best wishes of his many friends
i throughout th ecounty.
“MORE FOOD IS PATROTISM*
IS THE WISCONSIN SLOGAN
MADISON, Wls., May 2—“ More food
I is Patrotism,” the slogan of the state
agricultural college, is being spread
I broadcast throughout Wisconsin on
"war stickers,” on bill-boards and on
j buildings in the farm sections.
Wisconsin was a leader in the food
' mobilization movement, the legislature ,
I having passed a law creating a council'
of state defense several weeks ago.
Since then the farm movement has
been jammed home through manyi
agencies, even the phone companies
j helping by spreading broadcast daily
weather reports for the guidance of
farmers.
Senator Roy P. Wilcox, au Clairo. is
fighting to get a bill through the egls
leture providing a civilllian soldiery
for Wisconsin. The bill would require
the taking of a muster roil of all those
disqualified from enlistment and have
them seve the country in some other
capacity.
ci TV
Veditionl
WARNING WORDS
ARE GIVEN AS A
DOTY THITIOI
At one of the largest gatherings of
farmers and business men ever held in
the Surmer county courthouse, Gifford
Pinchot. former chief of the bureau of
forestry of the United States, and one
of the foremost authorities on conser
vation in this country, together with
Dr. Andrew M. Soule, president of the
Georgia State College of Agriculture,
made an urgent appeal to the citizens
of this section to assume their share
of the solution of the food production
problem now confronting the Ameri
can natoin.
The meeting opened at 10 o’clock
and was attended by almost 500 rep
resentative planters, business men and
women from various sections ot Sum
ter county.
Crawford Wheatley, who acted as
chairman of the assemblage, called at
tention in his introductory remarks to
the conditions now prevailing in the
United States by reason of the Euro*
pean war and the recent declaration
of war by this country against Ger
many. “A condition and not a theory
now confronts us,” he quoted the words
,ot Grover Cleveland. "The man be
hind the plow is the man who wins
j the battles,” said Mr. Wheatley, in urg-
I ing the importance of the co-operation
,ot the farmer in the national effort to
' preserve the principles ot liberty and
| justice in the world struggle now go
ing on.
I Mr. Pinchot, who for several months
' was engaged in the relief work in
northern France and in Belgium, de
scribed in his opening remarks the
, havoc and suffering wrought by the
. German armies in their work of de
| struction in the sunny provinces that
I have been devastated since their occu
| pation by the soldiers of aiser Wil
, liam. Three thousand persons, said
I Mr. Pinchot, died of starvation in one
district alone, before relief in the way
of foodstuffs from America could bo
j brought to them.
In returning to America on the liner
iSc Paul, two days after the sinking
|of the Lusitania, Mr. Pinchot passed
: through the area in which the great
steamship was sunk by a German tor
pedo with the losa of hundreds of de
fenseless American men, women and
children. Wreckage of all kinds strew
ed the waves in the vicinity of the spot
. where the vessel went down and sev-
■ eral bodies were seen floating on the
surface of the sea.
Os French bicod himself, Mr. Pin
chot's personal feelings in regard to
the terrible struggle now going on In
■ Europe, enable him to give a most
. vivid description of conditions now
< existing there and his words picturing
the situation on the western battle
front were attended with closest at
tention by his auditors this morn
ing.
“If the war is brought to a conclus
ion this year, as I devoutly hope it
will be.” he said, “it will be because
the United States furnishes enormou*
quantities of food and munitions to
the Allies.” Mr. Pinchot impressed
his hearers with the fact that the Unit
ed States must take this phase of the
( struggle as her own individual contri-
I button. She must see to it that the
I supply of food -products is sufficient
I not only to feed her own citizens and
, the Allies, but also large enough to
allow a certain percentage of the
shipments to be destroyed by the Ger
man submarines, for the activities of
these undersea boats, while they may
be curtailed to a large extent, must of
necessity continue to make certain in
! roads upon the shipping on he high
seas.
I "Germany is losing this war because
she fails to realize that other coun
tries have rights that should be re
garded,” said Mr. Pinchot.
I “This is a war worth while —worth
all sacrifices that have been made, if
in the end the fundamental principles
of civilization shall have been preserv
ed inviolate to assure the safety of
future generations throughout the
earth.” declared the speaker.
“If England is starved out, it will
be because the United States fails to
furnish the required amount of food
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