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PAGE SIX j To Our Patrons and the General Public We wish to announce that the name of our firm has been changed from the A. W. Smith Furniture Co. to the GYLES ANDREWS FURNITURE CO. We wish to express our appreciation to our patrons for their business in the past and will thank them for a continuation of same in the future. ] I | GtLES-AIH FURNITURE CO. J. E. GYLES E. Y. ANDREWS I WrWWWWtWWfWWWW^WWWWWWWWWWWWWW I WWWW% | E can supply your every want in Loose I Leaf Goods from the smallest Memorandum to the largest Ledgers Let us show you. Hightower Book Store j _ ■ —■■■wiwuiwi wnm ni'P Preserving Made Easy If you want better preserves try the gas stove. Only on a gas stove can you get the slow, uni form heat so necessary. Gas is The Cheapest Fuel and the Best... ANNOUNCEMENT The ATHENS BUSINESS COLLEGE is to locate a school in Americus and will give the same instruction as taught in Athens. 1 he Government and Business World are calling for stenographers and bookkeep ers and need them more now than they have at any time. • Send a postal to T. K. MacCARY, care Cawood House for full information. * w —mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm c S c h L ef g e f™ 8, E. D. Sheffield, Cashier | Fi a °k Sheffield, V-Pres. Lee Hudson, Asst. This bank and 64 of its friends bought { THIRTY-SEVEN THOUSAND AND FIFTY DOLLARS worth of U. S. Liberty Loan Gold Bonds. Begin now to save your money. If our country issues • more Liberty Bonds be prepared to buy some of them. (We desire to render service. Yours very truly, 1 BANK of COMMERCE l Americus, Ga. 0 m iw'www* ~wwwwwww w wWw ■■ wmmwmm iwwi mm wvwm wwlm mm WANT ADS FOR BEST RESULTS (JAPAN PLEASED WITH SELECTION OE SPECIAL ENVOY; TOKIO, July 16. —General satisfac-l I tion expressed in Japan at the ap-' pointment of Viscount Kikujiro Ishii. formerly minister for foreign affairs, as special envoy to the United States in connection with the present war. The j appointment was made personally by Emperor Yoshohito, by virtue of a spec-' ial ordinance by which Viscount Ishii is designated as temporary ambassador extraordinary. The service of installa- ' tion was attended by Premier Count Terauchi, Prince Takatsukasa, grand chamberlain, and others. It was expected that the commission would leave for the United States on July 3 on the steamer Shingo Mara and . spend some three months in that coun try, visiting Washington and other cit-, ies. The delegates who accompany i Viscount Ishii were selected with spec ial reference to their fitness. They in clude Vice-Admiral Isamu Takeshita, who was formerly naval attache at Washington and who was detailed as captain of the Japanese cruiser Izuma when that warship participated in the festival at San Francisco some years ago; Major General Shoichi Sugano,' who has been attached to the general staff since 1915 and who has been mil tary attache at London; Matsuzo Nagai of the foreign office, who has been em bassy secretary at Washington, and consul general at New York and San Francisco; Commander Shiokyc Ando; Major Seiji Tanikawa and Tadanao Imai of the consular service. The selection of Viscount Ishii as chief envoy is welcomed by the press even of the opposition, because he was foreign minister of the cabinet of Mar quis Okuma, which was supported by the ccnstitutional or opposition party. The Terauchi ministry is praised, therefore, for its broad-mindedness in choosing a diplomat of rather anti-gov-, ernment leaning. The selection wasj r.ade, however, regardless of party con siderations and was based solely upon Viscount Ishii’s fitness and capacity in advancing a unified Japanese policy in the oresent world crisis. Marquis Okuma personally voiced his satisfaction and expressed the opinion that the commission would contribute nuch towards cementing the cordial re lations between Japan and the United States and assist in clearing away any misunderstanding entertained by the jJnited States about Japan’s policy to wards China. The primary object of the commis sion is one of courtesy in conveying the appreciation of the Japanese govern ment at the action of the United States in joining the ranks of the Entente allies, of which Japan is a member, but in a broad way the commission will discuss questions of co-operation be tween the United States and Japan in the future conduct of the war. Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy all having dispatches commissions to the United States, Japan weels that it is fitting for her to follow in their foot j steps. There is likely to be an exchange of j views on the Far Eastern questions I generally and even on th esituation in hussia, which is a source of consider- I able anxiety. It is not unlikely that 1 tire Chinese question which continues troublesome, will be considered and | that in a general way the commission ! will seize the opportunity to further a I project of co-operative understanding ! with reference to political affairs in the j Far East. Viscount Isliii, who speaks both Eng | lish and French easily, has had a long ! career as a diplomat He was secre ! tary at Paris and at Peking and was I among the ranks of the besieged dur j ii.g the Boxer troubles in China. After ! j having been recalled to the foreign of-I fice as chief of the section of tele graphs and then as director of the bu-! reau of commercial affairs, he was dis patched to San Francisco and Van- 1 couver in 1907 to investigate the anti-. Japanese movement there. In 190 She j was appointed vice minister for foreign l affairs, and in 1912 was designated as ambassador to France, which post he filled with eminent success until he was selected to be foreign imnister ini the Okuma cabinet. He was still in! Paris in the early period of the war and is thoroughly familiar with the Euro pean war situation. American Citizens. In practice there is no such thing as a "citizen of the United States.”, 1 Such “citizen" is about as mythical as ' the mermaid. In order to vote, for in- * ; Bt ance, one must bring his citizenship ( i down to the concrete and become a 1 ,i citlzen of New York, or of some one I of the other states. You cannot vote 1 - m New York unless you are a citizen ‘ of New fork; and the same is true ot ‘ i a!1 tl)e other nates. The “citizen of ■ I the 1 nited . ales' is a very vague < gentleman. THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDEFL GERM liING SHORT OF WEAPONS FOR SUBMARINES WASHINGTON, July 16.—There is . I reason to believe that the German torpedo supply is weakening, says a statement issued at the Navy League headquarters. The increasing frequency with which press despatches report mer-1 chant ships as successfully dodging German torpedoes, says the state ment, suggests to the technically trained mind that the German torpedo is detoriorating- in speed and hence in accuracy of fire at long range. At the outset, the statement con tinues, the eGrmans were extremely careful to conserve their torpedoes. Merchant ships were sunk by gunfire ! wherever possible. But the armin? of merchant ships and the constant improvement in the Allies’ system of defense against submarine attack has driven the subrnarines under water and they are now forced to use tor pedoes in almost every attack. The increase in the number of sub marines has further added to the strain upon the German stock of tor pedoes. • An analysis of reports on subma rine attacks now indicates that this precedented expenditure of torpedoes is beginning to tell upon the effec tiveness of the U-boat warfare. The Germans are pressing their subma rine campaign with all possible vigor and the number of attacks on merchant ships appears to be increas ing. Also the zone of submarine operations is constantly widening. Yet this increased fury with which the U-boat warfare is being waged has failed to increase the merchant ships sunk. The Germans apparent ly are being forced to constantly greater efforts to maintain their average of sinkings and even so are slipping back slightly. The explanation of this offered by certain naval experts is that the Germans are being presed for time in the construction of torpedoes that they can no longer maintain theix ! speed and their accuracy of fire. It is estimated that the German torpedo has lost nearly ten knots in speed from the standard torpedo used at the outset of the war. It takes normally six months to ' construct a torpedo and costs many thousand dollars. There is also a ' chance of Germany running short in ! some material essential in their manufacture. Whether this has oc curred is not known but the con clusion has been reached that the in dividual German torpedoUs losing in efficiency. The U-boat warfare as now being waged, it is said, was undoubtedly not thpught out and prepared for by j Germany before the war. Therefore the stock of torpedoes was not suf ficient for the purpose. The deficien -1 cy has been made up by increasing the output of torpedoes. But with I the tremendous land operations she has essayed, Germany could not have devoted a maximum of labor or ma terials to the making of torpedoes. Had she done this it is not doubt ed she could have kept up the sup ply. But sacrifices in the torpedo supply were made to satisfy the folly of the Crown Prince of Verdun. Xaval experts ar rightly con tinuing to stress the vital importance of attempting to destroy the power of the submarine by some new de velopment in naval strategy. No de gree of deterioration in the effective ness of German torpedo attack would lessen these efforts at effective war fare against the submarines. Yet the interest of naval experts has been attracted by this recent record of performance of the German torpedoes. Tliey are wondering wjhether Ger many can stiandf much longer the strain of this staggering expenditure of torpedoes. COTTON MARKET I — h July 16, 1917. Good middling 26 l-4c Fully middling 26c Middling 25 3-4 c COTTON FITCHES JIAKKET. The New York cotton futures mar-! ket was quoted at the ' open and loon. Open Noon. [ January 25.35 25.35' luly ...r. 27.30 27.10' Ictober 25.60 25.26 Jecember 25.41 25.21 Monday's Closing. lanuary 25.18 darch 25.34 Inly 26.90 October 25.19 Ue: ember 25.10 That Dont Get Tired v many cotton mixed fabrics are being Hk puHnto men’s clothes. Such clothes lose ......, i.. Copyright Hart Schaffner & Man Use T.-R. Want Ads for Best Results The Average Woman Knows a good thing when she sees it, but all of the average women do not see an opportunity like this. The woman who does not see this advertise ment can figure her loss in real dollars and cents IN OUR READY-TO-WEAR DEPARTMENT We Ha\ r e Some Real Economy Offerings for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday GRFAT $1.50 Sport Stripes, now . . . $1.39 DOLLARS $2.50 Sport Spots, now .... $1.98 DO VALUES $4.00 Sport Spots, now .... $2.98 DUTY $5.00 Sport Tussahs, now . . . $3.39 AC *N $7.50 Sport Novelties .... $4.49 " SK{RTS ALL NEW old m A A ONE LOT OF WHITE SKIRTS TK I * THAT ON TO-DAY’S MARKET * T are WORTH DOUBLE.' THE MIDDY SUITS CONSISTING OF A SKIRT THE SKIRT MIDDY IS AND SEPARATE MIDDY $2.50 Values, now $1.69 WORTH $3.00 values, now $1.98 WORTH THE PRICE s3 ' sova ' UeS,nOW A L L N E w' '' ' $2 ' 39 ™E PRICE A FEW THEY WERE T NOW = S IO.„ T L S 3OI IQ [ New white m Jt New white wash Silk M A* M M g yf wash Silks Petticoats f M/WM /% MJ&JPM for Skirts receiv’d g 9* 36 in> ’ ? d * $3- 5 ° t° $1.25 % z 1.50 i DEPENDABLE MERCHANDISE MONDAY, JTLT IS, 1917