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ftTHE TIMES-RECORDER
‘ ESTABLISHED 1879.
Published every Sunday morning and
•very afternoon except Saturday, and
Weekly, by the Times-Recorder Co.
(Incorporated.)
Entered as second class matter at
*o«toffice at Americus, Ga.. under act
Os March 3, 1879.
G. R. ELLIS,
President
EDWIN H. BRADLEY.
Managing Editor.
THOMAS M. MERRITT, JR.,
Business Manager.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR:
City of Americus.
Sumter County.
Webster County.
Railroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional Dustrict
U. S. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, Ga.. June 1. 1917
“A Liberty Bond in every home."
The printers in the government
printing office at Washington, D. C,
are asking for an increase in wages.
Well, they have to get out that airy,
sprightly Congressional Record and
are entitled to punitive damages.
Many prominent publications are
presenting lengthy editorials headed
■‘Conservation of Calves." How well
this campaign has succeeded may pos
sibly be determined by observation at
the seashore resorts this summer.
Jacksonville is pining for a com
mission form of government and it is
hinted right strongly in some circles
that perhaps it might be less difficult
under that system to fracture the in
creasingly stringent prohibition laws
in force there.
And now that the situation in Russia
gives promise of becoming a little
more hopeful, along comes the news
that bootleggers are busy distributing
the prohibited vodka and stirring up
trouble enough to constitute a serious
menace to the stability of the govern
ment. What next?
Georgia’s junior senator evidently
feels that the success of his next cam
paign for re-election is assured be
yond question of doubt, so that he can
safely afford to antagonize the news
papers of his district by advocating an
increased postage rate for publica
tions. The high cost of paper, ink,
labor, et cetera ad infinitum, fails to
make any impression on the Honorable
Thomas.
Besides being a mighty fine preach
er, Rev. Bascom Anthony has proven
tnat he can raise fine hogs at the
same time. His shipment of 45 Dur
ocs to Florida last week has attracted
nr little attention everywhere the tit
ian-haired preacher is known. —Thom-
asville Times-Enterprise. We guar
antee that Brother Anthony will make
a success at most anything he tackles
be it raising funds for the church or
fodder for the “inner man.” - >
Some individual with malicious in
tent tried to get into the columns of
the Augusta Chronicle a false mar
riage announcement, which if it had
not been investigated and suppressed,
would have caused untold embarrass
ment and humiliatjon to the parties
concerned. There is a law against giv
ing false information to newspapers
aid Augusta is not the only city in
Georgia where attempts have been
made to use a newspaper to secure re
venge for a personal grudge.
NORTHERN INDUSTRIAL PREJU
DICE AGAINST THE NEGRO.
Mayor Fred W. Moolman, of East
S> Louis, Ill.,'sent a telegram yester
day to Governor Harris of Georgia,
urging that the negroes of this state
ba warned to keep away from Illinois
and other Middle Western commun
ities. By reading "between the lines"
of the East. Et. Louis mayor’s telegram,
Southern negroes can find food for
solemn reflection. This is what the
Illinois mayor wired the Governor of
Georgia:
“Race riot in East St. Louis
caused by heavy influx of negroes
from the South during past month.
Kindly advise negroes to remain
away from East St. Louis.”
Human nature is pretty much the
same North and South. The white peo
ple of this section have seen a good
deal more of the negro than have
Northern whites, and as a result he is
better understood here than there.
Outbreaks against negroes have been
confined to no section. Atlanta's riot
has been matched by Springfield. 111.
“Nigger hunting” in Florida has had
its counterpart in the crowded districts
of New York City.
There is one notable difference,
however, between anti-negro demon
strations in the North and in the
South.
Negroes in this section have never
been denied the right to work, to ac
quire property and to better their con
dition. Labor unions have never by
solemn resolution told negroes in
Southern communities to “move on.”
Outbreaks against negroes in the
South have almost invariably been in
spired by the criminal acts of mem
bers of that race. Mob violence can
not be successfully defended. White
men who take the law into their own
hands and hang negro criminals from
the limbs of trees without having the
question of guilt or innocence of the
a<cussed passed upon by twelve men
sitting in a court of justice strike at
the very vitals of our civilization.
But the colored citizen of a South-
t
ern state has always enjoyed the priv
ilege of earning his bread by the
sweat of his brow. He has ever been
encouraged to become a property own
er—to buy a farm, live on it and im
prove it, or own his home in town or
city. Negro merchants, mechanics,
masons, carpenters, railway employes,
doctors, dentists and nurses have un
limited and unrestricted opportunities
in the South. The weekly wage of the
t negro worker in the South is steadily
increasing, and will be larger in the
immediate future than it has ever been.
But events in Northern communities
growing; out of the recent movement
, of thousands of Southern negroes to
. points above the Mason and Dixon line
show very clearly that the prejudice of
the North against black skins is no.
only a racial prejudice, but an indus
trial prejudice as well. Southern ne
groes who have gone North within re-
■ cent months went with the expectation
of bettering their material condition
. They expected to find employment in
mills, factories, on construction enter
prises, in stores and as domestics at
much higher wages than they had been
. receiving in the South. A few' have
net been disappointed, simply because
individual merit gained a recognition
, which the immigrant masses could
not hope for.
But whenever negroes from the
■ South have gone into a Northern com
1 munity in sufficient numbers to
‘ threaten competition with white work
• ers, the newcomers have found to their
1 sorrow that not only was there no
welcome for them, but that they could
- remain only on peril of their lives.
Going into a section of the country
& where they had been led to believe
were unparalleled opportunities for
r bettering their material condition, thev
have been greeted, instead, with a sen.
timent that would be fittingly express
ed in a sign displayed at every pas-
I sender depot, and reading: “No Negro
Workers Allowed."
The North loves the colored brother
II with an unselfish love—as long as the
colored brother stays in Dixie.*—Al-
s nany Herald.
s While the nations of the earth are
a declaring war on each other ri?ht
a] promiscuously, how about declaring a
I little war ourselves on the übiquitous
’mosquito?
. MINE SWEEPING A DANGEROLS
TASK IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL
PARIS, June I—Sweeping the Eng
lish Channel for mines laid by German
submarines is one of the most excit
• ing and dangerous occupations of the
! war, according to the stories told by
J men participating in that work.
“Mine sweepers doubtless are the
only vessels of the navy on which life
belts are worn from the time of leav
ing port until the return,” writes
Jacques Marsillac, from aboard a mine
sweeper on service in the channel.
“The task of mine sweepers, compos
ed of 7-foot sloops formed in eschel
ons, two by two, connected by steel
cables, with the flag-boat leading, is
to clear a channel about half a mile
wide and fifty miles long of the mines
laid there by German submarines," he
adds. “These under-water mine lay
ers carry from fifteen to twenty-four
mines, according to the type, and they
frequently lay them quite close to
gether. so close, in fact that it has
become an axiom in the mine-hunting
craft that where one is found an
other is sure to turn up.
“The wireless operator on the flag- i
boat of the group, who has served on i
four mine sweepers that have been :
blown up in the service, had scarcely i
flashed to the boats of the group that <
a mine had been signalled when a
black mass adrift appeared on the crest 1
of the waves ahead of our boat. A
second later it disappeared. We steer ■
ed in its direction, every man on deck
searching intently for its re-appear
ance. The few minutes in which a 1
sighted mine disappears are full of in- '
finitely disagreeable tension on board '
-. mine sweeper.
“And if we touch it ” Marsillac ask- '
ed of the wireless operator.
"Then it is joss,” he replied, mean- 1
ii:g that it would be fatal.
“On this occasion the fates were
frendly to us," wrote Marsillac, “for 1
the mine re-appeared fifty yards away
and, for some reason that no one coujd
explain, remained in sight until the 1
gunners could get action upon it. '
Round, black, it shone like a seal’s ’
back, showing from time to time its '
four mortal needles, contact with
which means destruction. The boat '
sheered off and the gunners, using a !
special rifle ball at about 200 yards
under immense difficulties resulting 1
from the rolling of the boat, fired fifty 1
shots without touching one of the fatal ‘
needles. They succeeded, however, in
piercing the mine which filled with '
water and sank to the bottom of the
sea.
“The two leading- sloops raised a
half-red flag, which means that they
have found a mine. At once began a
manoeuvre intended to cut the cable
holding it; suddenly a steel cable,that
connects each couple of sloops and
which is called the ‘sweep,’ struck the
mine. It must have come in contact,
with one of the deadly needles, and •
broke the vial of acid inside which
sets off the discharge, for an immense •
column of water shot straight into the
air to a height of 100 yards, completely
masking from each other the two
sloops between which the explosion oc
curred. Then the sloops went on in
search of other mines and thus con
tinues every day this dangerous and
heroic work of clearing the path for
merchant ships through the high seas."
TUT OF MORGENTHAU SAVED
BRITISH PREU HER IN TURKEY
LONDON, June i—How the influ
ence of the American ambassador in
Constantinople, Henry Morganthau.
prevented the Turkish authorities from
interning the leading British clergy
man there was related here the other
day by a British official who succeeded
in getting out of the Ottoman Empire.
The incident happened before the Unit
ed entered the war.
"The American embassy at Constan
tinople,” this official said. “looked after
the interests of the British colony very
thoroughly. The American ambassa
dor was on excellent terms with the
Turkish authorities and his tactful in
tervention often prevented internments.
“The Turks at the instigation of the
Germans, decided to intern the British
non-conformist minister —the most
popular European in Constantinople.
The minister was seized, conveyed
across the Bosphorus, and was on his
vay to an Asia Minor concentration
c.:mp when the American ambassador
heard of the case.
"Instead of protesting indignantly
Mr. Morganthau quietly expressed re
gret that the authorities should treat
harshly a man who had devoted such
a large part of his time to the good
of the Turkish government.
“Enver Pasha at once realized the
force of the ambassador's view and
a courier despatched hot haste in
structed the guards to return to Con
stantinople with the minister.”
Stars and Stripes Flying at Rome.
ROME, June 1.—“Old Glory" today
is flying on Capitaline Hill, the cradle
of old Rome’s and the modern world's
civilization. The Stars and Stripes is
■ swinging from the sixteenth century
capital building, designed by Michael
Angele.
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
PROCESS OF MAKING A NEW
, MAP FOR EUROPE HAS BEGUN
WITH THE ENTENTE ARMIES IN
, SALONIKI, June 1— Comparatively
few persons know that the process of
I remaking the map of Europe has been
begun by the Entente Allies in the
region that has been the obession and
the enigma of the foreign officers of
Europe for the last flveyears —Albania.
On December 12 last, the capital of a
free and independent Albanian Repub
lic was set up at Koritza, and this em
bryo state —for its territory extends at
present only to the district of which
Koritza is the chief town —possesses
all the machinery of modern govern
ment —a ruling council, and army 600
strong, postage stamps, paper money, a
national flag, foreign alliances, even a
budget that covers expenditure.
When the French patriots first reach
ed Koritza and established a detach
ment there to protect the left flank of
i
the Entente Balkan front they soon
found that the hostility of the local Al -
banians was not so much love of the
Austrians as resentment of any fresh
incursions of foreigners into their
country. By ousting, the royalist Greeks
and allowing the proclamation of the
independence of Albania, with Koritza
as capital, the French converted en 1
emies into allies.
CARRANZA ORDERS STANDARD
OIL TO MOVE TAMPICO TANKS
MEXICO CITY, June!—The Stand
ard Oil Company has been ordered by ,
the department of commerce and in- '
dustry to remove about fifty oil tanks '
erected in the Tampico field. These
tanks, the department declares, were
erected without prmission and wer not
erected according, to government stand
ards. It is said the tanks cost ap
proximately $500,000 to construct.
De Soto Hanking Company Building
and Lot at De Soto, Ga-, to Be Sold.
Having received a bid of $1,500 for
the building and lot owned and form- -
erly occupied by the De Soto Banking ■
Company of De Soto. Ga., unless I re
ceive a better bid by June 26, 1917, I
will proceed to ask the State Treasur
er to authorize the confirmation of
sale at this price.
Building is of brick, 22 by 50 feet
in dimensions, one story, tile floor in
lobby. Corner lot, tile sidewalk
around two sides of building.
Clear title will be given purchaser
and the transaction must be for cash.
A. S. JOHNSON, Liquidating Agent,
De Soto. Ga. . 5-27-30 t
TOW SHOWS |
ALCAZAR THEATRE.
Friday.
Edith Story and Antonio Moreno in
' Aladdin From Broadway."—s Acts.
Molly King in First Chapter of
"Mystery of the Double Cross.’’
Saturday
Constance Talmadge in “Betsy’s
Burgler.”—Five Acts.
“Her Cave Man.” —Triangle Cmedy.
PROPERTY OWNERS ARE
URGED TO TAKE NOTE
The tax books of the city of Ameri
cus will be opened at the office of the
undersigned on April Ist to July Ist,
and all property owners are requested
to make their returns. The matter is
important. E. J. ELDRIDGE,
2-ts Clerk and Treasurer.
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WE NEVER FALL
DOWN ON A JOB
All work we undertake for you in
this tin and Sheet Metal line will be
completed quickly and be done prop
erly. Warm air furnace and auto rad
iator w ork
AMERICUS SHEET METAL WORKS
Phone 788. B. H. Allen, Mgr.
EMMETT Si HORSLEY
Civil Engineer.
DAWSON, GA.
LAND SURVEYING A SPECIALTY.
WRITE FOR REFERENCE.
MISS BESSIE WINDSOR,
Insurance.
Ronda.
Office Forsyth SL Phone 284
C. P. DAYIS
Dental Surgeon.
Orthodontia, Pyorrhea.
Residence Phone 316. Office Phone 81S.
Allison Bldg.
PARTNERSHIP
INSURANCE
The most important asset of a
firm? The business abiiity, or
special technical skill of the
individual members.
Why not insure against the loss
of this asset?
Insurance upon partners or offi
cers of corporations is furnished
at lowest net cost by the Union
Central Life Insurance Com
pany.
Write for facts and comparative
figures.
LEE I. HANSFORD, Agent
Americus, Ga.
UNION CENTRAL LIFE
INSURANCE CO.
“The Great Annual Dividend Payer.”
F. G. OLVER
LOCKSMITH.
Sewing machines and Supplies; Key
and Lock Fitting, Umbrellas Repaired
and Covered. Phone 420.
Lee STREET. NEAR WELL
AMERICUS CAMP, 202, WOODMEN
OF THE WORLD.
Meets every Wednesday night in
Fraternal Hall, Lamar street. All vis
iting Sovereigns invited to meet with
us. STEPHEN PACE. C. C.
NAT LeMASTER, Clerk.
i
F. and A. M.
• AMERICUS LODGS
F. & A. M., meets ev-
fc ffiapjL ery second and
fourth Friday night
at 7 o’clock.
FRANK J. PAYNE, W. M.
J, RESCOE PARKER, Sec’y.
• M. B. COUNCIL
LODGE F. and A. M.
Jjy meets every First and
Third Friday nights.
g w Visiting brothers are
invited to attend.
DR. J. R. STATHAM, W. M.
NAT LeMASTER. Secretary.
WASHINGTON CAMP, NO. 14,
P. 0. S. OF A.
Meets every first and third Monday
nights in P. O. S. of A. Hall, No. 219
Lamar St. All members in good stand
ing invited to attend. Beneficiary certi
ficates from $250.00 to $2,000.00 issued
to members of this camp.
S. A. JENNINGS, Pres’t
O. D. REESE, Recd’g. Sec’y.
C.»fGa.Ry
"The Right Way”
Trains Arrive.
From Chicago, vid
Columbus * 12:15 am:
From Columbus *10:00 a m
From Columbus ! < :15 p m
From Atlanta and Macon..* 5:28 a m
From Macon * 2:11 p in
From Macon • 7:35 p in
From Albany * 6:40 a m
From Montgomery and
Albany *.2.11 p m
From Montgomery and
Albany *10:88 p m
From Jacksonville, via »
Albany * 8:40 a m
Trains Depart
For Chicago, via Columbus * 8:40 a m
For Columbus 1 8:00 a m
For Columbus * 8:00 p m
For Macon and Atlanta . ..* 6:40.am
For Macon and Atlanta *2:11 p m
For Macon and Atlanta ~.*10:88 p m
For Montgomery and
, Albany * 5:28 a m
For Montgomery and
Albany * 2:11 p m
I For Albany .... ♦ 7:85 p m
For Jacksonville, via
Albany *12:15 a m
•Daily ! Except Sunday.
edv GEO. ANDERSON, Agent.
Seaboard Air Line
me Progressive Railway ot the Soatb
Leave Americus for Cordele. Ro
chelle. Abbeville, Helena, Lyons, Col
lins. Savannah, Columbia, Richmond,
Portsmouth and points East and South '
12:31 p m. '
2:30 a m
Leave Americus for Cordele, Abbe
ville, Helena and intermediate points
5:11 p. m.
Leave Americus for Richland, At
lanta. Birmingham, Hurtsboro, Mont
gomery and points West and Northwest
8:08 p. m.
Leave Americus for Richland. Col- 1
umbus, Dawson, Albany and interme- !
diate points i
18:80 a m
Seaboard Buffet Parlor Sleeping Car
on Trains 13 and 14 arriving Americus
from Savannah 11:25 p. m., and leav
ing Americus for Savannah 2:30 a. m.
Sleeping car leaving for Savannah at
2:30 a. m., will be open for passengers
at 11:40 p. m.
For further information apply to H.
P, Everett, Loqal Agent, Americus.
Ga.; C W. Small, Div. Pass. Agent,
Savannah. Ga.; C- R- **’an, G. p.
Norfolk. Va. ;
L. G. COUNCIL, Pres’t. INC. 1891 B. S. COUNCIL, Cashier
C. N. COUNCIL, VfcePres. T. E. BOLTON, Asst. Cashier
Planters Bank of Americus
CAPITAL SURPLUS & PROFITSES22S,OOO.OO
Resources Over One Million Dollars
■ With a quarter of a century ex
perience in successful banking
and with our large resources aoi
close persona] attention to erery
Interest, consistent with soimi
banking we solicit your patronage.
Interest allowed on time certi
ficates and In our department for
savings.
BUY A LIBERTY LOAN BOND
We Are Here to Serve You and Our Government
MONEY 51%
MfINFY IfIANFH on arm ant^s at $ I*2 p« cent
lllUliLl LUfIITLU interest and borrowers have priv
ilege of paying part or all of principal at any interest
period, stopping interest on amounts paid. We always
have best rates and easiest terms and give quickest ser
vice. Save money by seeing us.
G. R. ELLIS or G. C. WEBB
Americus Undertaking Company
Funeral Directors and Embalmers
MR. NAT LeMASTER, Manager
Agents for Rosemont Gardens
Day Phones 88 and 231 Night 661 and 136
Commercial City Bank
AMERICUS, GA.
General Banking Business
INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS
Of the ACCIDENT QUESTION is
.' ■ the INSURANCE SIDE. Better have
us write you a policy of ACCIDENT IN
SURANCE now.
the safe side Herbert Hawkins
HIGH GRADE FERTILIZERS
AMERICUS
HOME MIXTURE GUANO CO.
Manufactured of best unadulterated material, skillfully prepay
ed and mixed.
Our customers are pleased. Can we offer better referj
ences?
SALES AGENTS:
Harrold Bros. L. G, Council
Americus, Ga. Americus, Ga
A. S. Johnson E. C. Webb
DeSoto, Ga. Sumter, Ga*
A funeral ceremony should be a farewell service char
acterized by a quiet, yet imposing dignity. Its appoint
ments should be modem and pleasing and it should be
conducted with a careful courtesy.
ALLISON UNDERTAKING COMPANY
• LR. Eden, Director
Day Phone ;253--Night 657, 106, 36
FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1917