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THE TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 1879.
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Published every Sunday morning and
•very afternoon except Saturday, and
Weekly, by the Times-Recorder Co.
(Incorporated.)
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of March 3, 1879.
G. It ELLIS,
President
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City of Americus.
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Railroad Commission of Georgia For
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Georgia.
Americus, Gtu, June 18, 1917.
Uncle Samuel's supply es "silver bul
lets" appears to be practically unlim
ited. «
The gathering of the clans in the
state capital this week is just the reg
ular ante-session conclave of patriots
who have brought along to Atlanta
their pet schemes and designs to have
them approved by the powers that be.
Rotarianism is rampant in Atlanta
this week and the gathering of the na
tional Rotary clubs in the state capital
cannot but result in a new perspective
and a new enthusiasm being implanted
not only in the hearts of Atlantans, but
of careful thinking Georgians gener
ally.
It might be just as well to hold up on
that huge loan to Russia until it be
comes apparent whether the newly or
ganized government is going to be able
to withstand the assaults upon it by
the anarchistic elements, theoretical
and fanatical socialists pro-German in
fluence and what-not.
The University of Georgia owns 20,
000 gallons of fine wine, a legacy from
the estate of one of Georgia’s pioneer
business men. The problem now
confronting the trustees of the insti
tution is how to dodge the “bone dry"
law, and at the same time secure the
money value of the forbidden beverage.
The Cordele Dispatch has declared
war on a certain political crowd over
in the Crisp county capital and is do
ing its best to remedy what it alleges
to be a scandalous condition of as
fairs in the public school system. If
it be true that politicians are in con
trol of Cordele’s educational institu
tions, then assuredly things are in a
bad way.
That American land forces will not
be available for service on the eas
or west battle fronts before 1918. is
the expectation of the German war of
fice. It is just as possible that the Teu
tons are as inaccurate in this forecast
as they have shown themselves to ha wj
been in various other instances, such
ae the occupation of Paris, for ex
ample.
The warmth of the greeting extende 1;
to General Pershing on his arrival in
Paris indicates that the French nation
has a wholesome respect for the mili
tary power of this country. And we
venture the assertion that the show
ing made by American soldiers and
sailors in the struggle against Kaiser
ism will fully justify the French opin
ion.
A MATTER OF POLITICS.
At a time when political considera
tions should least be allowed to affect
the acts of the administration en
deavoring with all the power and re
sources at its command to put the
nation in shape to fulfill its obligation
to humanity by striking at the heart o‘
German barbarism, there appears evi
dence of an intention on the part or
political leaders opposed to President
Wilson and his co-workers, to confuse
the public with reference to the ob
jects influencing the United States to
declare a state of war against Teu
tonic militarism.
While these attempts to place ob
stacles in the way of the nation’s
leaders emanate from a comparatively
small group of irreconcilable political
opponents of the Democratic party
generally, and President Wilson in
particular, their ill-effect may easily
increase unless peremptorily quashed
by the staunch patriotism of that great
and overwhelming majority of Amer
ican citizenry which fully understands
the necessity for united action, un
swerving support and fullest co-opera
tion in this period of national stress.
From the early days of the war in
Europe, when German troops swep;
relentlesly across the borders of Bel
gium, wreaking their vengeance upon
its fair cities and fruitful acres, vent
ing their blood-lust upon the helpless
human victims whose present pitiful
condition cries aloud to civilization,
there has been a steady, consistent ef
fort on the part of certain senators
congressmen and newspapers to force
President Wilson into a declaration of
war against Germany. The destruction
of the Lusitania by a German sub
marine added fuel to the flame kindled
by this element and during the period
when the President exerted every
power at his command to avert war
ty honorable means, his opponents,
who are now endeavoring to arouse an
tagonism against him. reviled him as
a note-writing coward, without the
courage to take a decisive stand
against Germany which might lead to
war.
Now that the United States has
been forced to do battle for the princi
ples of humanity, justice and civiliza
tion, these same voices are heard in
the land, but apparently forgetful of
their previous bellicose sentiments.
In bewildered and pitiful accents
they wail, “Why are we at war?"
The Philadelphia Record, in pointed
terms, takes occasion to give terse
answer to these inquirers, who for pol
itical reasons make pretense of being
unable to comprehend why the United
states should now be straining every
nerve to lend material assistance to the
Allies in the struggle to crush forever
the power that would over-run the
world and place the iron heel of
"Kultur” upon the neck of civiliza
tion.
The Record's reply is in part as fol
lows:
"We are at war for the exact reason
for which they were berating the in
activity of President Wilson for ore
than two years. They howled for war.
It would not have been justified till
the respurces of diplomacy were ex
hausted, and they didn’t get war, and
they wore out their voices denouncing
the President for writing notes wher
he should have done something. Un
influenced by their noise, he continued
to warn Germany of the consequences
of pushing the submarine campaign in
violation of international law and hu
manity, and these republican states
men made merry over his spineless
ness. his skill with words. Everything
said the late Joseph Choate, tha*
wouds could do had been done, but
words were not the most effective ar
gument between nations. They are not.
but the next thing is blows. The blows
have come, and these same republican
senators and congressmen and editors
are bleating: “What is the war about?
Won’t the President please tell us?"
“The German submarine campaign
| was a gross violation of our rights
the rights of people to travel, and
our commercial rights. The President
attempted to secure the abandonment
of this campaign and the confinement
oi the submarines within the limits of
international law and humanity. lie
used the proper diplomatic channels of.
communication. He did not commit
the country to an act of war. He did
not threaten war, which Germany
must inevitably have resented. But he
insisted with increasing brevity and
sternnes on the abandonment of a
system of barbarous warfare.
"Finally, he warned Germany that
we could not remain in diplomatic re
lations with a nation that persisted in
that course, and Germany promised to
keep its submarines within the letter
of the law. Generally, though not uni
versally, and as it affected us, that
promise was kept, until Germany on
January 31 announced that at midnight
following it would tear up the scrap
of paper on which that was written
Two days later the President dismissel
the German ambassador. The attacks
upon our rights continued, and the
President called congress to meet
April 2 and told it that Germany’s at
tacks upon our vessels constituted a
skate of war, and congress agreed
with him.
“And the men who are now profess
ing to be ignorant of the reason we are
at war are in great, part the identical
republican politicians who blackguard
ed the president for more than two
years for not using force against Ger
many on account of the operations of
the submarines.”
A CALL TO DUTY.
(By William Howard Taft.)
If you will study the history of Ger
many for the last half century, you
will see that conspiracy disclosing it
self more and more clearly. The doc
trine preached openly in the philoso
phy of that country was that there is
no international morality, that there
is no rule by which a nation may be
governed, except that of self-preserva
tion, as it is called, which means self
exploitation over the ruins of other
civilizations and other peoples and
other nations.
So deftly has that conspiracy been
carried on that the mind of a great
people, even in that fifty years, has
been poisoned into the conviction that
it is their highest duty to subordinated
every consideration of humanity to the
exaltation and the development of mil
itary force, as by that force they can
take from the rest of the world what is
needed to accomplish their destiny at
whatever cost of honor or principle.
Where do you see the working out
of the divine plan? That was a cancer
in the world. It had grown to be so
formidable that it needed a capital op
eration to excise it and restore the
v. orld to the station in the develop
ment of Christian civilization which,
but for that, we would not have
reached.
Accompanying this devotion to mili
tary efficien cya.s a God, has come that
b'indness which is in the end to de
stroy the Hohenzollern philosophy of
government.
After two years and a half of strug
gle, that has tested the endurance
nearly to the breaking point of the
nations engaged, Germany, in that con
fidence that she has in the science of
warfare, has said, "We will starve Eng
land into submission and we will end
the war,” and in the accomplishmen’
ol that, she forced, because she had to
force, into the ranks of her enemies
at a time when tills war is to be deter
mined by money, by resources, and by
men, more resources, more equipment
and more men than any nation in the
world.
We Americans are a good people—
we admit it —but ont of our weaknesses
is an assumption, justified by a gool
many things that have saved us from
egregious mistakes in the past, that
God looks after children, drunken men
and the United States.
Germany is not exhausted. She ia
by reason of this system of fifty years’
standing, the greatest military nation
that was ever organized, and she still
has great fighting power; and she
arrayed ourselves as her enemy be
cause, with that devotion to system,
with that failure to understand the in
fluence of moral force in a people, she
was contemptuous of what we, who
had ignored military preparation, could
do in this war. She has now made an
egregious error as it is for us to show
When we went into this war there
were many people who thought *ll we
I had to do was draw a check, or several
(Checks, for a billion dollars and that
i "George” ould do the fighting. That is
not the case. We have begun right in 1
the raising of an army. We have pro
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vided for a million, or. perhaps, a
million and a half of men. That will
probably not be enough. A groat deal
better that we should make over-prep
aration in a matter in which the whole
welfare of the world is engaged, than
that we should make under-prepara
tion.
We shall not realize what the war is
until our men, those beloved with us.
have been exposed to dreadful dangers,
to the character of wounding that is so
horrible under this modern system of
warfare; and until we all go to the
bulletine and study the names to se c
whether those who are near and dear
to us have been taken for their coun
try's sake. Then the war will come
to us. Then there will be nothing but
the war, and everythign else will be
incidental; and until that psychologi
cal change has come, we shall not feel
the whole measure of our duty as we
must in order to carry this war
through.
The Rsd Cross is the only recognized
agency through which we may help to
take care of the wounded of the army
and the nations that are fighting our
battles. It is an admirable arrange
ment that some such avenue as that
should be supplied to give vent to the
patriotic desire of those who can not go
to the front, to work in behalf of their
country and the world.
Every country has a Red Cross, and
every country must have it, because
nt: army can furnish the instrumentali
ties adequate to meet the proportion of
v.-ounded that this war furnishes.
Think of it! Forty million at the col
ors; seven million dead; six million on
beds of pain, and the whole of Europe
taken up with hostilities. You can not
exaggerate the function that our ReJ
Cross will have to perform merely in
attending to the wounded of our army
and other armies in carrying on this
fight. Therefore, one hundred million
dollars, great as the sum seems, is
inadequate; but the first one hundred
million dollars will be the hardest hun
dred million to raise. And we must
leave no doubt about it; and I thank
God that the organization is in such
competent hands to do the great work
that has to be done.
And now, my friends, the one thing
for which we ought to be grateful is
that in this great war, in this war h>
which we shall have to make sacrifices,
oh, so great that they wring tears from
us as we think of them—we should be
grateful that we have a cause worthy
of all the sacrifices that we can make.
Any banker in Sumter county will
gladly explain the Liberty Loan to you
and will help you buy a bond.
A pair of kings in the discard in
Europe and a third apparently about
to suffer the same ignominious fate.
Democracy is coming into its own as
the result of the world-war.
De Soto Banking Company Building
and Lot at De Soto, Gju, 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, 191?, 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
Americus
Fish &
Oyster
Market
216 Forsyth St.
PHONE 778
FRESH FISH OF
ALL KINDS
We appreciate your pad
business and thank you
for a continuation of same.
Give us a ted on your
next fish order.
MRS. LOTTIE LIVINGSTON
Public Stenographer.
Dodson Bldg. Phone 104.
Residence Phone 607.
EMMETT S. HORSLEY
Civil Engineer.
DAWSON, GA.
LAND SURVEYING A SPECIALTY.
WRITE FOR REFERENCE.
MISS BESSIE WINDSOR,
Insurance.
Bonds.
Office Forsyth St Phone 884
C. P. DAVIS
Dental Surgeon.
Orthodontia, Pyorrhea.
Residence Phone 316. Office Phone 818.
Allison Bldg.
F. G. OLVER
LOCKSMITH.
Sewing machines and Supplies; Key
and Lock Fitting, Umbrellas Repaired
•nd 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.
F. and A. M.
• AMERICUS LODGM
F. & A. M, meets ev-
j. ery second and
fourth Friday night
/ \ at 7 o’clock.
FRANK J. PAYNE, W. M.
J. RESCOE PARKER, Sec’y.
a M. B. COUNCIL
LODGE F. and A. M.
meets every First and
Third Friday nights.
f » 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, via
Columbus * 12:15 a m
From Columbus *10:00 a m
From Columbus ! 7:15 p m
From Atlanta and Macon..* 5:29 a m
From Macon * 2:11 p m
From Macon ♦ 7:85 p in
From Albany * 6:40 a m
From Montgomery and
Albany ... *.2.11 p m
From Montgomery and
Albany *10:39 p m
From Jacksonville, via
Albany * 3:40 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.a.m
For Macon and Atlanta *2:11 p m
For Macon and Atlanta ... *10:89 p m
For Montgomery and
Albany * 5:29 a m
For Montgomery and
Albany * 2:11 p m
For Albany * 7:85 p m
For Jacksonville, via
Albany *12:15 a m
♦Daily ! Except Sunday.
adv GEO. ANDERSON, Agent.
Seaboard Air Line
The Progressive Railway ot We SooW
Leave Americus for Cordele. Ro
chelle, Abbeville, Helena, Lyons, Col
line, Savannah, Columbia, Richmond,
Portsmouth and points East and South
12:31 p m.
2:30 a m
Americus for Cordele, Abbe
ville, Helena and intermediate points
3:11 p. m.
Leave Americus for Richland, At
lanta, Birmingham, Hurtsboro, Mont
gomery and points West and Northwest
3:08 p. m.
Leave Americus for Richland. Col
umbus, Dawson, Albany and interme
diate points
10:00 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, Local Agent, Americus.
Ga.; C. W. Small, Div. Pass. Agent,
Savannah, Ga.; C- n *'”an, G. F. a.,
Norfolk. Va.
Every Woman
should help to make this world safe
for the babies.
Every woman CAN help by putting
her savings into the
Liberty Loan
and encouraging the men of her fam- (
ily to do the same thing.
If you ate not able to subscribe for a
large amount you can buy a SSO bond
PLANTERS BANK
Os Americus
””
MONEY 51 %
MDNFY i fIOFD on farm lands at 51,2 per cent
liluliLl LU/iITLU 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.
I «
; G. R. ELLIS or G. C. WEBB
Americus Undertaking Company
Funeral Directors and Embalmers
MR. NATLeMASTER, Manager
Agents for Rosemont Gardens
Day PhonesJßß and 231 Night 661 and 13c
;j
Commercial City Bank
AMERICUS, GA.
General Banking Business
i
INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS
WE wish to announce to our patrons and the public
generally that Mr. Nathan F. Murray, well known
to the Drug trade of Americus, is now connected with
us in our prescription department.
We exped to take every precaution in the compound
ing department of our store and will have a man on du
ty at all times to attend to your wants in this line.
Remember we have afresh and complete line of
goods, in fad every thingjhandled by a fird class drug
store.
Delicious drinks can be found at all times at our
fountain.
Your next order for anything in our line will receive
careful and prompt attention.
Prather-Ansley Co.
PHONE 79
• Insuring your property through
this agency is obtaining the larged re
turn procurable in real protection and
real Insurance service.
Let us serve you.
Herbert Hawkins
To do good work you mud red well, for no one
can hope for efficiency when their body is not in good
running order, then sleep well by requesting us to make
you one of our light fluffy mattresses.
Pope Mattress Company
PHONE 120 - - . Cotton Ave.
MONDAY, JUNE 18. 1»17.