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THE TIMES-RECORDER
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Georgia.
Americus, Ga„ July 15, 1917
Like Ishmael of old. the I. W. W.
agitators find every man’s hand
against them, and rightly so; for their
hands are against every man whose
ideas do not correspond to their
own.
Friday the 13th passed without any
particularly malignant operations on
the part of our private and personal
jinx, but we had a tough time keep
ing ous superstitious in complete sub
jection.
The flight of General Chang to the
Dutch legation in Peking and the vic
tory of the republican troops over the
remaining supporters of the monarch
ists, may be taken as an indication that
the Chinese have had their fill of
thrones and crowns.
The interference of the Crown
Prince is reported to have brought
about the resignation of Von Beth
mann-Hollweg as chancellor of the
German empire. It is! evident that his
efforts in this instance were more suc
cessful than at Verdun.
Savannah did not get one of the di
visional encampments, although the
facilities offered were unexcelled. In
ternal political difficulties prevented
the united efforts of the leaders from
being exerted, a condition that has
never failed to work mischief.
Thomas Wilhelm Hardwick raises
his voice to announce that all who
question his patriotism are just com-j
mon, ordinary, every-day liars.'
Thomas by that pronouncement in
cluded quite a comprehensive survey
of the population of the good old
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state of Georgia. '
Brusiloff is proving a veritable Ne
mesis to the Teutons and is demon
strating an ability on a par with that
of the Grand Duke Nicholas. The re
juvenatioii of the Russian armies is
undoubtedly furnishing food for
thought to the German staff which
not long ago contemptuously referred
to the Muscovites as a “rabble of peas
ants.”
Now that the Senate has refused to
endorse the appointment of Judge W.
E. Thomas to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of the late W. W. Lamb
din, we can sit back in our chairs and
take another nap. Meanwhile the
bench remains unoccupied and Geor
gia’s senators are temporarily satis
fied with the result of their political
obstructionist operations.
TO MEET AN EMERGEM f.
It matters not how faithfully, how
energetically the agricultural and
manufacturing interests of the United
States perforin their functions in
this time of national crisis, nor how
great quantities of munitions, supplies
and war materials of all kinds are
provided, if the facilities for transpor
tation are insufficient to deliver them
at the proper destination.
, Tons of food products, ammunition
and supplies of all kinds are useless
except they can be turned over im
mediately at the points where they are
most needed. To do this immense
numbers of cars are necessary and
the railroads of the country are put
ting forth superhuman efforts to util
ize to the best advantage every unit of
their rolling stock.
The ordinary traffic must be handl
ed efficiently and in addition, enormous
movements of war materials and troops
must be taken care of without the loss
of a single hour’s time. How to solve
the problem in the face of a normal
shortage of rolling stock is the ques
tion that is vexing the railroad offic
ials in every corner of the land today.
Heroic methods are being put into
operation to cope with the situation
and included in the program which is
destined to bring about a solution of
the problem is an appeal by the rail
roads,. backed by the federal govern
ment, to shippers and buyers through
out the country.
Economy in the use of car space is
being preached from the housetops.
The practice of loading freight cars to
only a fractional part of their capac
ity is being denounced in no uncertain
terms and every effort is being made
to place the system of car loading on a
more efficient basis.
Wholesalers and manufacturers are
urged to substitute tri-weekly and
semi-weekly service for day service in
the dispatch of products to patrons,
this change necessitating an alteration
cf the system of buying practised by
many retailers and jobbers. Instead
o f buying enough for only one day’s
distribution, the retailers are being im
portuned to lay in a stock that will
make a semi-wjekly or tri-weekly ser.
vice possible.
The loading of bulk products to the
capacity of cars is an item in the ef
ficency program that will bring grat
ifying results in the way of releasing
cars for use in transporting troops and
materials for the government
The melon growers of South Georgia
are being urged to load their melons
five! tiers deep in cars, thus increasing
the load one fifth and making it pos
sible to use one fifth less cars for the
new movement of the entire crop. It is
pointed out. that no damage to the mel- 1
ons results from packing five tiers'
deep and the consignees in the north
ern and eastern markets are willing
to pay for the crop according to the
number of melons in each car, rather
than on the old basis of a stated price
“per carload."
The railroads of South Georgia de
clare 3,000 cars will be needed to
move the melon crop this year and a
saving oij 20 per cent of these cars by
more efficient loading means 1,200 cars
released for service elsewhere.
Saving freight cars at this time is
not only important from the stand
point of efficiency, but also as a patri
otic measure, for every car released
from ordinary commercial transporta
hion means an added carload of mater
ial to be used in the struggle against
German militarism.
HEBE’S A PRETTY HOWDY-DO
Now comes Representative Brown, of
Clark county, and introduces a emas
lure in the Goergla'legislature provid
i ing for the disposal of twenty thous-;
land gallons of wine bequeathed to the
of Georgia by the late Jud
son L. Hand. The wine was made
fiom grapes that grew on Mr. Hand’s
land. The proposal is that, inasmuch
'as Georgia is “bone-dry,” the wine be
j sold outside the state. The wine is es
jtimated to be worth $40,000, and the
proposal is that this money be made a
'trust fund, the interest on which would
jbe used to pay the expenses of worthy
young men attending the university.
This is a pretty howdy-do. The state,
after making extraordinary efforts to
prohibit the manufacture and sale of ‘
all kinds of liquors, would go into the !
(business cf selling liquor itself. And
why? For the purpose of saving forty
thousand dollars. Money, that’s the
reason.
| But if it be wrong, to license a cit- (
izen of this state to sell wine it will be,
just as wrong to engage some one out.
'side of the state to do it. If the sale
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of liquor in Georgia is wrong, and the (
I state, through its legislature, has
dared that it is, is it not also wrong
lor it to be sold anywhere?
i If the question of morality is in
volved in matter of prohibition, if the,
state of Georgia has enacted prohibi-1
tion laws in order to save the people'
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cf this state, is this state now going to
'sell liquor to others? Is Georgia go- .
ing to place this “damnable stuff to the
I lips oij her neighbor?”
' The bequest of this $40,000 worth of
vine cost the university nothing.
Therefore the university loses nothing,
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by not getting the value of it. If it
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would be a good thing for the state to |
sell this wine for the benefit of deserv-'
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ii g young men why would it not be a
' good thing for the state to engage in |
the sale of wine on a large scale
the benefit of deserving young men? i
If the university cannot afford to (
lose the wine thus bequeathed it, how
can the state expect Georgians who *
happened to have wine on hand when
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the “bone dry” law went into effect)
I lose theirs? Those who had paid their,
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j money for wine were expected to pour j
it into the street sewers. The state
'university should do the same thing.
What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for
the gander.
In this matter, as in every other, the j
'grand old principle of “equal rights to;
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all and special privileges to none”,
should be applied.
If the university is going to be al-j
lowed to sell its wine, why not open '
the gap and let others who may have
wine dispose of their holdings?
Let’s be fair and just.
We can’t afford to be otherwise.—
Columbus Ledger.
HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES.
For ages we have been marveling
about how folks we happen to know 1
get along so well. The great question'
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I of how the other half of the world lives'
has been ond constantly recurring and 1
the answer has aliways been indefin-'
able and unsatisfactory.
For the past few years the educa
tional forces of the country have been
directed toward the rehabilitation of
i
, the rural schools and we have heard
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much about teaching the youth of the
, country the practical and applied rud-'
. intents of education that they so much l
need. Unquestionably a great amount
of good has been injected into rural ed
ucation, but now comes other phases
which are of equal significance to the
country at large.
The vitalization of city schools is
the new' thought directed toward edu
cation and in a most exhaustive and in
teresting recital of the facts the Amer
ican Review of Reviews a full
description of how' the city school cur
riculum has been revolutionized so as
to embrace gardening, and cookery al
ong with music and art. Special class
es have been provided and the intens
ive method of cultivating limited areas
in the? city has been promoted in such
a manner as to secure marvelous re
sults.
Generally speaking education anyway
is evolving into a new idea and the
brain and body of the student is now
receiving constant attention in a co
operative way. In addition to this the
students are being fitted most desir
ably the w'ork they propose to fol
low and especially when it is observed
that they} are adapted to such work.
The matter of keeping the country
men in the country is regarded im
portant, but it is equally as necessary
that the city student be acquainted
with the rudiments and fundamental
principles of wealth production from
the soil as It is that the student of
the country should be acquainted with
affairs that most eminently concern'
him, for, after all. it may become im
perative that the city contribute to the l
population of the rural districts just'
as it has been necessary for the coun
try to give up many of its best men to
the cities. —Augusta Chronicle
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
THE NEW RUSSIA.
Gen. Scott, the chief of the American
general staff, grows optimistic in his
report from the fighting forces of Rus
sia; there is no doubt that he reports
correctly what he sees, but we cannot
be sure that the view accepted where
1 Brussiloff commands is one that is
'typical of Russia as a whole. Gen
i
Scott says the Russian soldier is obed
'ient to discipline, understands the sit-
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'nation and is fighting finely; would
j this view be sustained upon an exam
ination of the whole front?
Gen. Brussiloff is propably the abl
est fighting man of the entente arm
' ies. Upon the declaration bf war he
'asked for removal to the Galician
'front; he saw that a movement upon
'Germany from the north would be dis-
Iticult because of the Mazurian lakes;
an invasion from the center would be
(delayed by the fortresses placed along
'the route with admirable judgment; he
'has remained during the whole war
! where we find him today and lias made
'himself a continuing danger to both
'Vienna and Berlin.
To save Paris Russia stacked pre
maturely, having an insufficient stock
lof munitions and without waiting for
'the mobilization of her full strength,
i Because Brussiloff had made his re
'ftuest for service on the southern end
'of the line he and Ruzski advanced in
't> Galicia. Samsonoff and Rennen
kampf on the northern end invaded
' East Prussia and the central attack
'from Warsaw was made by Grand
Duke Nicholas and Alexeieff. The
northern attack came to grief around
the Mazurian lakes; the central attack
| dissipated its strength against the
'fortresses of Konigsberg, Dantzig,
Posen and Glogau and Przemysl and
| Cracow; the result is an old story, but
'the moral is new. On the south Brus
sels and Ruzski struck hard and won
out; into the Carpathians they plunged
and their calvary was spurring over
the plains of Hungary when the re
treat of their comrades exposed their
flanks; they brought back their armies
unbroken and unbeaten.
The southern route gives the Rus
sian way through the country of the
Czechs and Slovake and ftuthenians,
their relatives and friends; the success
. was repeated last year and again this
; year. When the proclamations of the
i republican regime left the armies with
out leadership Brussiloff only forbade
| the agitators) entrance to his camps;
his armies only have preserved their
discipline intact. During the weeks of
doubt he allowed no correspondents
among his men; he kept his men isolat
ed from the disorders in Petrograd.
IHe went with the other generals to
demand the changes which resulted in
i the leadership of Kerensky and he al-
I lowed no fraternization with the Ger
mans.
| It is not surprising that the armies
of Brussiloff and the generals about
( him are ready to strike hard; they
j have always been ready to advance ex
cept when they lacked ammunition.
, But for this reason we may be sur
j prised if we assume with Gen. Scott
.that other Russian armies possess the
same spirit; they suffered from the
i demoralization which never touched
the men of Brussiloff and Ruzski.
I These have the same leaders they have
known from the beginning of the war;
the leaders who are not only fighters
but financiers and statesmen enough to
keep them supplied with fighting ma
. serial. We may suppose that the
I French won the battle of the Marne
because the invading armies had been
drawn upon for the divisions that stop
ped the Russian advance; the Germans
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retreated in France that they might
drive black the Russians. Perhaps the
Germans did not pass at Verdun be
cause they found it necessary to stop
Brussiloff’s second advance into Gal
licia; the Germans may be weak in
I France today because of the apprere
(hension felt of Brussiloff’s third at
, tack. At, all events Brussiloff alone
seems to have the secret of forcing
jiis enemy to fight in the open—a Brit
(ish critic has said he is Europe’s
! Stonewall Jackson.—Florida Times-
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