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THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1917
I Sense
and
Cents
What two cents worth of Gas will do.
1: Bake 30 biscuits and broil a 3 ’pound
steak.
2: Bake one four-layer cake with Choco
late filling.
3: Bake one large Angel Food Cake.
4: Cook a full dinner for six persons.
5: Heat water for two baths.
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY
MACON AND ATLANTA
THE RIGHT WAY SERVICE
Leave Arrive Leave Arrive
Macon Atlanta Atlanta Macon
**3:oo a m 6:25 am * 8:00 a m 11:15 a m
*3:58 a m 5:45 a m *12:30 p m 3:40 p m
*4:30 a m 7:40 a m *4:00 pm 7:20 p m
*7:30 a m 10:45 a m *8:25 p m 11:22 p m
11:05 a m 1:55 p m *10:05 p m 1:00 a m
*1:30 p m 4:20 p m *10:30 p m 1:40 a m
*5:00 p. m. 8:10 p m **11:50 p m 2:45 a m
NOTE: ’Carries coaches, parlor or sleeping cars. **Carries local
sleeping car between Macon and Atlanta open for occupancy 9:00 p. m.
at both terminals, and may be occupied until 7:00 a. m.
New Train No. 9, leaving Macon 11:05 a. m., stops at Forsyth,
Barnesville and Griffin. Connects at Macon with Central of Georgia train
No. 8 from Albany and Americus. Connects at Atlanta with A. & W. P.
train No. 39; S. A. L. train No. 18 for Abbeville, S. C., and train No. 23
for Piedmont, Ala.; Southern Railway train No. 30, for Charlotte, W ash
ington and New York, an itrain No, 16. for Rome, Dalton, Chattanooga,
-Gadsden and Attalla. I‘4?: m 3 CI-
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY
THE RIGHT WAY
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FOOD QUESTION 111
FRANCE IS SERIOUS
PARIS, May 31—The food question
in France is regarded as very serious.
All the measures thus far taken have
failed to assure positively the required
supply of bread to carry the country
over to the next wheat crop, and the
government has just decided in a spec
ial cabinet meeting to require im
portant sacrifices.
No more pastry and no more crackers
or biscuits will be made, except for the
army, after a date still to be fixed. No
more highly refined flour will be toler
ated. Every miller will be obliged to
leave a greater percentage of bran in
his output, and eventually corn meal,
rye or barley may be mixed with the
wheat flour to eke out the supply.
The experiences of the past year in
France have shown the, impossibility
of influencing economic conditions by
decree. The maximum selling: price of
wheat was fixed at a price equivalent to
| $1.85 a bushel, in order to avoid an in
| crease in the cost of bread. The result
was a greater decrease in wheat acre
age; the farmers preferred to sow oats
. and barley that were not subjected to
any limitations and brought better
- prices than wheat.
The retail price of butter on the
Paris market was fixed at the equival
ent of 68 cents a pound. Immediately
the receipts fell from forty-two tons to
less than nine tons a day. The butter
went to the British front where it read
ily brought 80 cents a pound.
The new Minister of Subsistence.
Maurice Viollette, removed the limita
-1 tions and more butter arrived, but the
1 price went up to a dollar a pound at
1 retail.
i Most persons interested in the ques
-1 tion, among them such writers as Sen
-1 ator Henry jCheron, formerly Under
1 Secretary of War. now the opin
ion that neither prices nor supplies
can be affected by decrees; that it is
entirely a question of production and
economy over which the intermediaries
can have only a passing short experi
ence in power.
According to a story, M. Vicilette
found a high pile of papers on his desk
when he took charge of the difficult
task of regulating the cost of living.
“What are all these documents ’’ he
inquired.
“Those,” replied his chief of staff,
“are the unanswered questions that
you put to your predecessor in the
! Chamber.”
From all quarters come demands
for a cessa-tion of questions, debates
and cross purpose action, and for a
concentration of effort upon produc
tion.
The wheat crop of 1917, according to
estimates gathered by Senator Cheron,
will be 7,400,000 bushels short of that
of 1916. To make up this shortage it
is proposed to increase to the limit of
seeding capacity the acreage of oats,
barley and . potatoes during the time
yet remaining.
Beans may be sown as late as June
15, and arrangements are being: made
for the transportation of seed to all
regions appropriate for bean culture
that may then remain unseeded.
SAYS PEOPLE IN THE
SOUTH HAVE NOT YET WAKED
UP TO SERIOUSNESS OF
ATLANTA, Ga., May 31.—Atlanta
business men returning from the east'
declare that the people in the south
have not yet waked up to a realization
of the tremendous seriousness of the
war. They are firmly convinced that
the United States will be called upon
to go to the same lengths to which
England has gone before the menace
of Prussian militarism has been ex
terminated.
I “You may not realize the serious
ness of the situation now,” said Gen
eraid Leonard A. Wood to a multitude
of people at Five Points the other day,
“but you will when the shiploads of
wounded begin to come back .and when
the casuality lists are posted, showing
the names of your sons and brothers
and sweethearts killed on the battle
fields of France.”
In Atlanta the popular state of mind
seems to be about the same as in other
southern cities. The streets are dot
ted with soldiers in uniform, scores of
young men have forsaken fine posi
tions in business and professional life (
to enter the training school for
Officers Reserve Corps at Fort Mc- (
Pherson, preparations are going
ahead for national registration day'
next Tuesday. June 5.
But still the people as a whole have,
not waked up to the fact that we are
a*, war; that we will send a million or.
two million men to the fighting lines,
a: quickly as they can be trained; that,
thousands of these men will never come,
back across the seas; that all of the
resources of the United States must be
poured into the war to the very last,
I notch to crush the German war ma
chine.
JTHE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
RUSSIAN RAILROAD
HAS BEEJJINISHED
PETROGRAD, May 31—One of the
most fascinating romances of rail
road engineering is the building of the
great Murnar Railway, from Petrograd
to Kola Bay Russia’s ice-free port. Built
by torchlight in the darkness of Artic
winter, parts of it were three times lost
when warm winds turned the frozen
tundras on which it was laid into bot
tomless morasses of mud and water.
The railway is 930 miles long, from
Kola to Petrograd, and part of it is a
three-track line. The Russians learn
ed from the paralysis of the Trans-Si
berian Line that a one-track road is al
most useless when called on for ex
press service. Two tracks are used for
loaded cars going away from Kola. The
third track is for empties coming back.
Three races, Russian. Austrian and
Mongols, helped build the line. Hun
dreds, if not thousands, died from cold,
hunger, and disease, but now the line
is through to stay, and its three
tracks are taking every day 200 car
loads from the mountains of supplies
that have accumulated while the road
was in process of construction.
First, Russians were emplayed as
railroad builders. They had the easiest
part of the line to build, before it
reached the tundras. Then they were
all called away to the front and Aus
trian prisoners were sent to take their
places.
The prisoners were guarded by reg
iments of half-wild Tartars and Mon
gols. Neither the Austrians nor their
guards knew anything about railway
building, and there were so few experts
in the region that it was impossible for
them to oversee the work properly.
The Austrians laid the ties on ice and
frozen ground; and one construction
train got through to Kola Bay. Then a
t'raw came and the train could not get
back. There was no track. Great
stretches of rails had disappeared.
The Austrians were set to work
again, better supervised this time, and
they had at least a semblance of road
bed when the rails met south of Kola
But the ballast had been laid again by
torchlight. and when a thaw came
much of it slumped beneath the tracks.
After that the Russians took a leaf
from the history of the great American
transcontinental railways.
They herded the Austrians back to
the prison camps and brought across
, the Trans-Siberian railway, thousands
of Chinese coolies and Mongols, to take
their places.
By this time so much indignation
over the ghastly failures on the rail
way had arisen that the Russian offic
ials were stirred out of their sloth.
They soon got down to hard pan and
the railroad went through to stay.
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Just take your shoes off and then
put those weary, shoe-crinkled, aching,
I burning, corn-pestered, bunion-tortur
led feet of yours in a “Tiz” bath. Your
I toes will wriggle with joy; they’ll look
up at you and almost talk and then
they’ll take another dive in that "Tiz”
bath.
When your feet feel like lumps of
lead—all tired out—just try “Tiz.” It’s
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dance with joy; also you will find all
pain gone from corns, callouses and
bunions.
There’s nothing like “Tiz” Its the
only remedy that draws out all the
poisonous exudations which puff up
your feet and cause foot torture.
Get a 25-cent box of “Tiz” at any
drug* or department store- —don’t wait.
Ah! how glad your feet get; how com
fortable your shoes feel. You can wear
shoes a size smaller if you desire,
advt.
WILLIS HARTMAN, MOST
PATRIOTIC OF ALL RECRUITS
ATLANTA. Ga., May 31.—Willis
Hartman, whose patriotism is a good
’deal bigger than his stature was so dis
appointed because his 5 feet 2 inches
•were not sufficient to get him accept
'cd for military service, that he got
(some cotton wadding and adhesive
plaster and built up “French heels”
'nearly two inches high on the soles
'of his bare feet, then put on his shoes
’and went back to another recruiting
'station in Atlanta and was taken. But
'the trouble came when the doctor
'stripped him for a physical examina
tion and discovered his subterfuge. He
was again rejected, but they didn’t
'criticise him very harshy for his at
tempt to fool the government
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REGISTRATION DAY WILL
ACCOMPLISH MUCH
ATLANTA, Ga., May 31.—National
registration day next Tuesday will ac
complish more than securing the names
of men of military age under the terms
of the act of congress. It will furnish
a striking illustration of the vitally
important need for complete vital
statistics in every state.
Members of the Georgia legislature
will take advantage of this illustration
t; bring before the general assembly at
its forthcoming session the favorable
opportunity for making Georgia’s vital
statistics laws the equal of the most
progressive and thorough In the coun
try.
Not only is a state or a nation help
less in time of war without a complete
census of its males of military age, but
the human resources of a state can
j>.ever be properly conserved without
complete statistics touching births ana
deaths and the causes of deaths. When
William J. Harris, of Georgia, now
chairman of the federal trade commis
sion, was director of the census, he
personally urged the legislature of
Georgia to provide for complete vital
statistics, and this legislature passed
the law, although it failed to provide
the necessary machinery for obtaining
complete information. It was urged by
Mr. Harris that justices of the peace,
city clerks and notary publics be nam
ed as registrars and paid the same
fees allowed in other states for similar
services.
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Edith Story and Antonio Moreno
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Five Acts, and
Molly King
In the First Chapter of
‘ The Mystery of the Double Cross”
The Serial Supreme
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To lend in any amount on residence property in
Americus or good adjoining towns on monthly pay
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Company in business in Georgia. Also loans made
to build, if you own your lot
We also offer straight 6 per cent, five year loans
on business property, interest either payable annually
or semi-annually. See
A. C. CROCKETT, - WINDSOR HO IEL
Americus, Ga., or write
J. S. HARRIS, - MOULTRIE, GA.
Summer is sweet on a new mattress made by us, or we
can make a new one out of your old one. We strive
to be rapid, reliable and reasonable in our business.
Pope Mattress Company
PHONE 120 - - • Cotton Ave.
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