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CHIRTY-MNTH YEAR.
ra SERVICE
ED HE ON METER
BASIS ENTIRELY
,'The abolishing of the flat-rate sys
tem in the operation of the city water
works department and the placing of
all patrons on a meter basis, was ac
complished at the regular meeting of
the City Council last night. An ordi
nance was passed under a suspension
of the rules which provided that after
Octobpr 1, 191", no flat-rates shall be
allowed. The average cost of install
ing a meter is sls, which is borne by
the patron.
Another ordinance passed at last
night’s meeting under suspension of
the rules prohibited the turning' in of
false alarms from any fire alarm box
ip the city. A reward of $5, is offered
for the arrest and conviction of any
offender against this ordinance.
A resolution of approval and sup
port for the Sumter Light Guards, the
new military organization here, was
passed without a dissenting vote, the
council seconding the action of the
Chamber of Commerce, which has
passed similar resolutions.
The annual report of J. B. Ansley,
superintendent of the city waterworks
and that of J. F. Monahan, chief of the
fire department, were received last
night. Mr. Ansley's statement show
ing that the net profit to the city from
the waterworks during the past fiscal
year is something over $5,000. The re
port of Chief Monahan shows that the
condition of the department at present
is far better than at any time in the
history of the municipality and the
degree of protection given the citizens
oi Americus is on a par with cities
much larger than this.
The attention of the aidermen was
called to the fact that many shade
trees throughout the city are either
dead or dying as the result, of insect in
festation. This matter was placed in
the hands of the street committee for
investigation and report as to remed
ial measures.
Dr. W. B. McWhorter, county health
commissioner, in a communication to
the council, stated that there are
several pools of stagnant w’ater lo
cated in sections of the city where
their presence is most undesirable, the
breeding of mosquitoes being facilitat
ed to an extreme degree.
Dr. McWhorter also pointed out that
there have been 25 cases of typhoid
fever in Americus during the past
three months, 22 of which were caused
by surface closets being in close prox
imity7 to wells. This condition was de
plored and a strict enforcement of the
surface closet ordinance was recom
mended. The council took official cog
nizance of the communicatoin and or
dered the sanitary inspector to take
the proper steps to relieve the condi
tions as outlined.
Aiderman Kalmon reported that the
Southeastern Underwriters’ association
had informed him by letter that as
soon as the auxiliary pump is installed
in the pumping station, as provided for
in the bill of requirements already
partly fulfilled by the city, the insur
ance authorities will send an inspector
tc Americus to re-rate property and
put the city on a first-class rate basis
with a deficiency of 10 per cent, as per
agreement with the insurance compa
nies, under which the new motor truck
and the fire alarm system w 7 ere in
stalled.
Mrs. Lilly Brown, owner of the prop
erty at the corner of Lamar and Lee
streets adjacent to the city w'ater
tower, filed a request with the council
that the roof of one of thesei buildings
be repaired by the city, since the
overflow from the tower had damaged
the roof until it is now in bad condi
tion. The matter was referred to the
water committee with authority to act.
Alderman Bell reported that the
work of lowering the gas and water
mains on Brown street would be com
menced this morning preparatory to
starting the actual concrete paving
operations within a few days, the nec
essary material having arrived.
The matter of increasing the storage
■•.ipacity at the waterworks and the
jn] royement of the artesian wells so
is to provide a sreater water supply,
ras held open until the next meeting.
} derman Mashburn, chairman of the
Kater committee, presented a report
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 11—A
resolution lugging the federal trade
commission to take over and operate
American newsprint mille and to re
duce prices, was adopted here today by
the National Editorial association.
CHARGED WITH GIVING
GOMFDRTJO GERMANY
LINCOLN, Neb., July 11.—The Ne
braska council of defense today issued
a statement charging “certain profes
sors in the University of Nebraska and
conspicuous representatives of the
Lutheran church’’ in the state with
disloyal activity and passivity that has
tended to give aid and comfort to Ger
many as an enemy.
FOOD BILL DM
iwmim
WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 11.—A
senate agreement to vote on President
Wilson’s food control bill on July 21,
five weeks after its submission to con
gress as an urgent war measure, has
been followed by issuance from the
white house of a detailed report by
Herbert Hoover declaring that both the
farmers and the public are threatened
with serious losses unless food control
authority is given quickly to the fed
eral government.
Democratic senators secured the
agreement for a vote only after they
had consented to strip the bill of some
cf its most drastic features, includ
ing the stringent prohibition provis
ions and the cotton control plan. Se
far-reaching was the revision demand
ed, in fact, that all the conferences of
the democratic steering committee and
the agriculture committee, resulted in
the presentation of a substitute for the
entire measure. The provisions of the
substitute bill, it is expected, will be
agreeable to the president in the
main. It follows generally the lines
of the administration bill originally in
troduced with power to control other
industries besides food and fuel elim
inated. It would prohibit manufacture
of distilled liquors without any provis
ion for government purchase of exist
ing stocks, and would place in the
president’s hands the power and re
sponsibility to decide whether prohibi.
ticn shall bie extended to beer and
wine.
There was no comment on Mr. Hoo
ver’s report available at the white
house, but the fact of its publication
at this time was regarded as another
evidence of President Wilson’s disap
pointment over the failure of congress
to act. He repeatedly has sought to
impress upon leaders the importance
of quick enactment of the lefislation.
Any plan which can be acted on
otiickly, provided it embodies the ele
rretary principles of the administra
tion program. The control bill now
has been before the senate more than
two weeks and the food survey bill,
another administration measure has
been held up in conference since ear
ly in June.
which showed that the present storage
capacity is 415,000 gallons. The aver
age daily consumption is 659,831 gal
lons and the total amount pumped from
the four wells is 735.00 b gallons pert
day. The necessity for increased stor
age capacity and improvements on the
wells so as to secure a greater flow of
water was clearly brought out.
It is proposed to build additional
storage reservoirs wtih a capacity of
500,000 gallons, and to install new
valves in the wells which will give the
desired increase in flow. The cost of
these improvements is estimated at
$‘,798.13 all told.
A full investigation of conditions at
the pumping station will be made by
the water committee before the next
meeting, when a report will be made
and a final decision on the question
probably arrived at.
AMERICUS. GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. JULY 11, 1917
GERMANS DfIIVE
BRITISH BACK IN
STBONEIJTTSCK
NEW YORK, July 11. —(Compiled by
the Associated Press from European
cables during the day.)—Just as the
Russians tore a big gap in the Austro-
German line in the east by capturing
Halicz, the Germans started a menac
ing offensiv against the British in Bel
guim. They drove the British back
there a hundred yards on a fourteen
hundred yard front after levelling the
defenses by a twenty-four hour bom
bardment which destroyed the bridges
across the Yser, preventing the Brit
ish bringing up reinforcements. This
may be merely a local movement, but
indicates the possibility of a determin
ed offensive to break the British flank
and reach Dunkirk, 17 miles away.
Reports indicate the battle is still in
progress.
If the Russians maintain the pres
sure sustained during the last ten days,
the fall of Lemberg may be expected
at no distant date. The capture of
Halicz is only an incident in the drive,
but opens the way to the Galicia ncap
ital.
1,500 British Prisoners Bagged.
BERLIN, July 11. —More than fifteen
hundred British prisoners were taken
by the German marine corps in the
Belgian thrust, it is officially an
nounced.
Turk Fleet Attacked by British.
LONDON, July 11. —British airmen
attacked an enemy fleet off Constanti
nople today, dropping bombs on the
Turkish cruiser, formerly the German
warship Goben. Explosions and fires
resulted.
Russians Bag 10,000 Prisoners.
PETROGRAD, July 11.—During, the
fighting from Sunday to Tuesday in
the direction of Dolina, the Russians
took 10,000 prisoners, 80 guns and
reached Pcsiecz, on the Lesiuvka-Kos
mac line.
Nuisance Charged by Merchants.
ATLANTA, Ga., July 11.—Merchants
on Decatur street, Atlanta’s famous
darktown, rialto, can endure the smell
of cabbage and fish and garlic and on
ions and other edibles and merchandise
dispensed along the famous thorough
fare, but their nostrils are not quite
strong enough to withstand the attack
or three carloads of guane parked on a
railroad sidetrack nearby and giving
off its noxious odors by day and
night. Accordingly they have brought
cases in the recorder's court against
the yard-master and the terminal su
perintendent of the offending railroad,
charging them with causing a public
nuisance. The guano is made from
dried blood and the merchants assert
that it has an odor that w’ould make
a Malay pirate turn over in his grave
INJURIES TO TOED AYASH
PRONOUNCED NOT SERIOUS
W. A. Ayash has returned home from
Atlanta, where he was called by the
news of an accident to his brother,
Fred Ayash, recently in an automobile
wreck in that city. Mr. Ayash states
that the injuries which his brother sus
tained are not so serious as at first
reported, and that he hopes to be out
within a few days. ■
C. B. Haygood, of Alpharetta, who
was driving the car which ran into
Mr. Ayash's car, has assumed all re
sponsibility for the accident, and has
offered tq pay for the damages.
LIBERTY BONDS SOLD
SLIGHTLY BELOW PAR
NEW YORK, July 11—Liberty bonds
sold on the stock exchange at 99 9-50
today, amounting to 20 cents on SI,OOO.
This is the first time the securities
have been under par. Another issue
soon to be made is said to be the
cause.
SCHOOLS TESTED
8! WORUICRISIS
PORTLAND, Ore., July 11.—The
world crisis, as it affects the United
States, and the part this country is
playing in it, is a test of the public
school, according to Mrs. Mary C. C.
Bradford, superintendent of public in
struction of Colorado, as expressed in
an address before the elementary sec
tion of the National Education asso
ciation; here yesterday.
Takings as her subject "The Pub
lic School and the Nation in 1917,"
Mrs. Bradford declared that if the
United States carries into effect its
avowed policy of "righteousness to all
humanity’’ and "sacrifice for all na
tions,” it will be "because the Ameri
can public school has, in some degree
at least, fulfilled the august task con
fined to it by the commands of demo
cratic government.’’
"If, after this great war to end
wars shall be over.” she continued,
"America functions as the supreme
idealistic force in the re-organization
of the world, it will be because the
public schools have given to the na
tion a higher vision tba nthe world
before has seen.
“This is the great task of the pub
lic school in 1917; this the mighty ef
fort that must be made by the school
people of today.
“Pointing out that non-Americans
had declared the public'school system
of this country, the ‘supremely dis
tinctive feature’ of the American de
velopment. Mrs. Bradford declared:
"A new vision must come to the
school world of America; a vision that
reveals it to itself as the moulder of
the soul-stuff of the nation in the like
ness of the ideal humanity.”
Comparing the public school to the
Casket of the Holy Grail, she added:
"Let us offer ourselves to the na
tion as one unit in the great army of
those who stand ready to give all at
the nation’s summons; let us fit our
selves for the high emprise of keep
ing safe the immortal draught without
which the national ideals must per
ish.”
AMERICAN MISSION TO
COME DIRECTLY HOME
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jul yll.—
The [Ruslsinn Ameriacn mission is
coming directly home, rather than stop
in Japan as had been suggested. The
presence of Eluhu Root, chairman of
the commission is needed in Washing
ton to give information gained in Rus
sia.
BOMB EXPLOSION!.
OGCUBIHHUO
CHICAGO. July 11.—Three bomb ex
plosions in widely separated places
on the south side resulted in one
death and one fatal injury, besides
damage to scores of building here to
day. The police charge two of the
explosions to black hand organizations
ai d the other to labor troubles.
Suit to Decide Tax Puzzle.
ATLANTA, Ga.. July IL—Who owns
the bed of the Tugaloo and Savannah
rivers, and the islands contained
therein? Are they the property of
the state of Georgia, or of the state of
South Carolina?
On the determination of this import
ant question depends the collection of
taxes on several valuable pieces of
property, including a large power plant
in the Tugaloo river, and the United
States will be asked to render a decis
ion to end the controversy.
The state of Georgia claims that the
bed of the river and the islands con
tained therein, ail the way from the
headwaters of the Tugaloo to the
mouth of the Savannah, belong to
Georgia; while it is claimed by other
parties subject to the dispute dtaxes
that the bed of the river and islands
belong to South Carolina.
A resolution has been introduced in
‘the legislature directing the governor
.to bring suit in the United States su-
Ipreme court to settle the question.
CLAIM BASIS DE
AGREEMENT HAS
BEEN SECURED
COPENHAGEN, July 11.-—German
afternoon newspapers assume an
agreement has been reached by all par
ties in the reichstag, excepting the ex
treme socialists and conservatives, on
a joint declaration of peace terms in
accordance with the chancellor’s dec
larations in 1914, but not on internal
reforms. The chancellor then said this
was not a war of conquest. National
liberals, however, later repudiated the
tpeace future and success of the move
ment is threatened. The Chancellor
is being sharply criticised.
Hollweg Not to Resign.
BERNE, Switzerland, July 11.—Ac
cording To Berlin newspapers, the
German chancellor, Dr. von Bethmann-
Hollweg, said to members of the reich
stag: “I repeat that the formula of
peace without annexations is unaccept
able to us. We cannot declare our
terms of peace. We must fight and
conquer.”
The chancellor made a strong attack
on Mathias Erzberger. leader of the
Catholic center, who assailed the pan-
Germgns in his address before the main
committee last week and advocated
peace without annexations or indemni
ties. Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg said
Herr Erzberger’s attitude was unpa
triotic.
According to the summary of the
chancellor's speech before the main
committee, published in the Lokal An
zeiger of Berlin, he said:
"We must continue the war with our
whole energies. Ido not deny that we
have great difficulties to overcome, but
so have our enemies. We shall see
whether their difficulties or ours are
greater.
“1 am sure we can win if we hold
out.
“Nothing was further from my inten
tion than to cling to my post, but now
it is a question of protecting the Fa
therland from injury, and for this rea
son I consider it necessary to retain
my post.”
Chancellor Pleads For Patience.
BERLIN, July 11.—Chancellor von
Bethmann-Hollweg at a meeting of the
main reichstag committee today declin.
j ed to disclose the result of the crown
I council meeting. He asked the house
j to continue to have patience.
German Staff Heart of Militarism.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 11
I Officials here believe that even should
I the German chancellor, foreign secre
tary and finance secretary resign, it
I would be only a surface movement. The
■ crust of militarism, they believe, can
not be affected until the general staff
is reached.
ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT
FOR LEE STREET CHURCH
/ The Lee Street Methodist church,
while but recently built, is fast secur
| ing all the equipment usually ac
| quired by churches after years of work
and waiting./
The members of the Epworth league
and the Philathea class of that church
I have recently raised sufficient funds to
I equip a room for their work in thej
I basement of the church building, which
! is a great addition and a material help
I in the work which these two organiza-
I Hons do.
The baptismal font, recently given to
the church by C. J. Clark, has been in
stalled, and a handsome copper basin
to fit inside the font hast been donated [
by W. L. Howell, of the Howell
Sheet Metal Works.
GERMAN NEWSPAPERS
ITTACh ( ARDINAL MEH( IER
AMSTERDAM, July 11.—Cardinal
Mercier is again being violently attack,
ed in the German newspapers, because,
it is alleged, he recently wrote a pas
toral letter stating that “criminally ;
violated' right must be the I
guilty severely punished, and the re-1
newal of such crimes made impos-I
sible."
EARNINGS OF SOUTHERN
ROADS SHOW INCREASE
WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 11.—
Earnings of Southern railroads in
creased more than $500,000 during May
1917, as compared with the same month
last year, according to reports to the
interstate commerce commission.
COMPLAINT LODGED
AGAINST_PUBLISHERS
WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 11.—
Formal complaint against the Curtis
Publishing Company was issued by the
federal trade commission today, the
complaint charging unfair business
practices and the stifling of competi
tion by refusing to sell the Saturday
Evening Post to dealers selling com
petitors’ publications.
littlejoTnTn
HME LIST
The name of Judge Z. A. Littlejohn
of the Southwestern circuit of the Su
perior court appears on the list of
names submitted by Senator Thomas
W. Hardwick to Attorney General
Gregory as being, acceptable to both
Georgia senators for appointment to
the federal judgeship of the south
Georgia district made vacant by the
death of the late Judge W. W. Lamb
din.
Judge Littlejohn’s name is handed
in along with 13 others whom Senator
Hardwick declares would receive the
support of the Georgia delegation in
the event the administration should
nominate one of them as the successor
of Judge Lambdin.
In speaking of the matter today,
Judge Littlejohn stated that he would
make no further move, all necessary
data, recommendations, etc., having
teen filed some time since with the at
torney general at Washington, D. C.
At the time of the appointment of
Judge Lambdin, a strong effort was
made’to secure the place for Judge
Littlejohn, his jfrjiends placing his
name before the president and urging
his selection for the place. After
Judge Lambdin’s death the movement
was renewed, although Judge Little
john made no active canvass of the sit
uation himself. A mass of detailed
data is now in the hands of the attor
ney general relative to the fitness of
Judge Littlejohn for the federal judge
ship, and no more substantial or com
prehensive array of recommendations
could be gathered.
The developments in the situation
will be watched with interest, as the
residents of this section of the state
remain firm in their support of Judge
Littlejohn.
AMERICUS FIREMAN GOES
TO ALBANY DEPARTMENT
I
Hill Paschal, who for the past 7;
years has been a member of the Amer-1
' icus Fire Department has tendered his
resignation and will report for duty
a< the Albany Fire Department on July
20, having accepted an a. pointment as
mechanic on the fire fighting force of
the Dougherty county capital.
Mr. Paschal's thorough knowledge of
the mechanism Os modern automobile
tire apparatus and his Ion•> experience
in fire fighting make him particularly
valuable to the Albany Fire Depart
ment, which has been considerably
ht.vipered by the loss of men who were
cempetent to fill the mechanician’s
port. His resignation is deeply regret
ted by the local who realize
his value in the Americus Fire Depart-
I ment.
The election of a successor has been
[placed in the hands of the fire com
' mittee of the City Council and no an
> nouncement has yet been made.
pitv
V EDITION I
JUDGESHIP A/IAY
HE SETTLED Iff
LATESTEFFORT
WASHINGTON, D. C„ July IX—
The differences and difficulties result
ing the appointment of a federal judge
iu the southern district: of Georgia took
a new and unexpected turn yesterday
when Senator Thos. W. Hardwick sub
mitted to the attorney general the
names of seventeen prominent south
Georgia lawyers, the appointment ot
any one of whom he declared would
te acceptable to himself and to Sena
tor Hoke Smith.
In submitting his list. Senator Hard
wick makes it clear that he has not
abandoned his personal choice of Hon.
John T. West, of Thomson, and
his second choices are Messrs. Pottle
and Felder.
Included in Senator Hardwick's list
are two jurists of the Georgia supreme
court, two members of the state court,
of appeals, three superior court judgse,
two city court judges, one ex-superior
court judge and six distinguished at
torneys engaged in the, active practice
of law.
Upon his return here yesterday from
Georgia, Senator Hardwick indicated
that he “might” have something to say
“within a day or two” about the south
Georgia judgeship.
Hardwick's Letter.
Yesterday he prepared the foregoing
list, which he transmitted to Attor
ney General Gregory by special mes
senger in the following letter:
“The Attorney General of the United
States, Department of Justice,
Washington, D. C.
“My Dear Mr. Attorney General:
Shortly after the death of Judge Lamb
din, I submitted for the consideratum
cf the department of justice the name
of Honorable John T. West for ap
pointment as United States judge i«r
the southern district of Georgia. My
colleague, Hon. Hoke Smith, joined in
recommending his appointment.
“As the appointment has not been
made, and without withdrawing uty
continued support of Mr. West, whose
appointment I .earnestly desire and.
urge, 1 am submitting for your con
sideration the following additional
names either of whom, would make an
excellent judge and would be accept
able to the bar and to the people of
the southern district of Georgia, as.
well as to the senators from Georgia.
“Hon. Jospeh E. Pottle, of Baldwin
county; Hon. Thos. S. Felder, of Bibb
■ county, Ga.; Presiding Justice Beverly
ID. Evans, of the supreme court ot
I Georgia; Associate Justice Samuel At
kinson, of the supreme court of Geor
[gia; Associate Justice Roscoe E Luke,
|of the court of appeals of Georgia;
I Hon. Wm. W. Osborne, of Chatham
'county, Georgia; Judge Robert X
i Hardeman, of the Middle circuit at
Georgia; Judge Henry C. Hammond, of
the Augusta circuit of Georgia; Judge
Z. A. Littlejohn, of the southwestern
[circuit of Georgia; Judge Davis Free-
Iman, of the city court of Savannahs
[ Judge E. C. Collins, judge of the city
[court of Reidsville, Georgia; Hon.
'John W. Bennett, of Ware county..
Georgia; Hon. D. G. Fogarty, of Rich
mond county,' Georgia; Hon. W. A_
Covin, ton, of Colquitt county. Geor
gia; Hon. F. M. Oliver, of Chatham
county, Georgia, former Judge J. W.
Bennett, of Glynn county, Georgia.
“I have submitted this list to my
colleague, Senator Hoke Smith. «he
will approve of the appointment of
any of the gentlemen I have herein
suggested. Very respectfully
"THOS. W. HARDWICK.*’
i Senator Hardwick gave copies of fits
i letter to the press following its dis
patch to the department of justice.
There was a merry little twinkle
his eye as he handed over the copies,
and remarked smilingly, that “maybe
the attorney general can find a suita
ble judge in that list.”
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