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ffHIRTY-NINTH YEAR.
SPEAKERS lELL
HOW TO SOLVE
FOOD PBJBLEM
The vital importance of food con
servation was vividly portrayed to the
citizens of Americus and Sumter coun
ty at a meeting held this morning in
the courthouse, when several speakers
from the State College of Agriculture
Delivered interesting and instructive
z addresses on various phases of the
great problem now confronting the
American nation.
The meeting was one of a series of
gatherings being held throughout the
state, eight parties of speakers hav
ing been sent out by the State College
to tour every county in Georgia, car
rying a personal message to every
man, woman and child.
W. J, Boyett, agricultural agent for
Sumter county, was in charge of the
meeting, the first speaker being W. O.
Collins, who outlined a program of
operation which must be followed in
order to prevent serious consequences
in the way of food shortage..
The stabilization of production, elim
ination of speculation and the mainte
nance of satisfactory prices by not
‘ dumping” farm products on the mar
ket in huge quantities, were some of
the points emphasized by Mr. Collins.
He urged his hearers to use home
grown products wherever possible in
order to make the available supply of
necessities “go around” and pointed
out that Georgia two years ago import
ed $85,000,000 worth of foods which
might easily be raised within our bor
ders. Thorough organization of our
resources and the voluntary practice
of conservation to forestall compulsory
conservation, were his concluding ad
monition to the citizens of this section.
C. B. (801 l Weevil) Burley, the next
speaker, declared that the farmers of
Sumter county, along with those of the
other counties of south and southwest
Georgia, have won the fight this year
against the boll weevil. The energetic
campaign along the lines laid down
last fall and this spring by the de
partment experts has resulted in the
making of a food crop of cotton which
will bring good prices this fall. He
warned against planting more than 10
acres to the plow in cotton next year,
however, stating that the severe win
ter this year has prevented a heavy in
festation and that with a mild winter
to come, the weevil will eat up Geor
gia cotton if too much is planted to
the plow. i
Br. Burley urged Sumter county far
mens to plant tall gardens, to save
seed for planting next spring, to plow
under the cotton stalks not later than
the middle of October and to increase
the production of meat, milk, eggs and
general farm crops. He pleaded with
them to fight wasteful methods, de
claring that the annual loss by waste
of food products in this country an
nually is more than $700,000,000. ' Eat
the best and save the rest,” declared
Mr. Burley in closing.
.lames E. Downing, in charge of the
Pig Club work in Georgia, and proba
bly one of the best posted men in the
country son scientific, practical hog
raising, gave a short talk to the Sum
ter County Pig Club boys, in which
he urged that more attention be paid
to this important department of mod
ern agriculture. In the present food
crisis, he declared, the production of
meat is vital and although Georgia
last year increased by 10 per cent, the
number of hogs raised within her bor
ders, this figure should be greatly sur
passed this year and next. Georgia has
the best opportunity of any state in
the union to become the banner hog
raising commonwealth.
Miss Rowena bong, home economics
demonstrator for Sumter county, who
has been accompanying the party of
speakers through several counties on
this tour, made a special appeal to the
housewives. She advocated the main
tenance, of a better balance in the ra
tioning of their families. By the aid
of a chart. Miss Long pointed out the
basic elements which should form ev
ery meal and urged that the foods con
taining these necessary elements be
used so as to insure better physical
condition for the individual and at the
same time conserve the available sup
ply of food.
R. M. Gridley, of the State College of
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HOT SPELL BHfIKEN
MIER MINT DAYS
WASHINGTON, D. C„ August 3.
The weather bureau announced this
morning that the hot spell which over
spread the whole of the east and south
besides a considerable portion of the
. middle west early this week, had end-
* cd.
The forecast for tonight and Satur
i day indicates that in the east, southeast
; and Gulf states fair weather will pre-
■ vail, except in Florida, where showers
. are indicated.
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HD HINGED IN
MOBILE JAIL FOR
ORDEAL MURDER
I
MOBILE, Ala., August 3. —Fisher
. Brooks, a negro, was hanged in the
. Mobile county jaii here today for the
- murder of Mrs. Julia May Hess, a
young white women who resided at
*
Wagar, Ala., and was in Mobile on a
visit. The woman engaged Brooks, a
i taxi-cab driver, to convey her from a
| hotel to a point she desired to visit, but
1 instead of proceeding as instructed,
the taxi-driver carried his victim
i
some distance from the city on the
. Plateau road, where the murder was
■ Cimmitted. Robbery was the incentive,
Mrs. Hess having displayed her purse
containing a considerable sum of
. J money, before entering the negro’s cab.
In an effort to conceal the crime,
Brooks, assisted by Albert Sanders, an
i other negro, placed weights about the
tocy and cast the corpse into Plateau
* creek, an arm of Mobile Bay, where
: it was found several days later. For
a time the murder remained a mystery,
but finally some one told the police of
s having seen Mrs. Hess enter the Brooks
negro’s cab. He was thereupon ar
rested and a search of his home dis
-1 closed bloody wearing apparel and
, other incriminating evidence. Indigna
tion ran high following Brooks’ ar
rest, and it was necessary to call out
militia troops to protect him from
lynching.
After his trial and conviction,
Brooks sent for his attorney and the
jail authorities and confessed partici
pation in the crime, naming Albert
Sanders, already held under arrest, as
his accomplice. He 'ratified at the
trial of Sanders and a ocnviction re
sulted. Brooks’ attorney refused to
file an appeal on behalf of his client.
PREPARE TO GIVE
GUARDSMEN SENOOFF
NEW YORK. August 3—New York
will probably say farewell next Thurs
day to the state’s national guardsmen
who have been ordered to Spartanburg,
S. C., for intensive training before go-
J lug to France. The plans for giving
the departing soldiers a rousing send
off. include a grand parade of the en
tire force, in which thirty thousand
men, representing every arm of the
military service, will march over one
1 of the longest parade routes ever ar
ranged in this city. Plans for the mon
ster parade are already practically
complete, and many dignitaries from
1 all parts of New York will be here for
1 the occasion.
Agriculture, made a short address on
the value of livestock raising to the
' modern farmer. He stressed the im
portance of keeping the livestock de-
■ partment of the farm up to a high
' standard of excellence.
The party of speakers goes to Buena
! Vista tomorrow for another mass meet-
I ing and will spend next week in the
' counties along the western border of
■ the state, concluding a tour which has
taken them through practically all of
II middle Georgia. |
AMERICUS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 3, 1917
GERMANS TRYING
TO DEFLECT DIG
ENTENTE DRIVE
NEW YORK. August 3 —(Compiled by
the Associated Press from European
cables during the day.)—The Flanders
front, where the great Entente of
fensive continues to be hampered by
.prevailing bad weather conditions, re
mains the center of military interest to
day, but on other sectors of the west
ern line there is also notable activity.
The suggestion of attempts to deflect
the course of the main Entente effort
is revealed in the British statement,
which records the fact that the Ger
mans bit into the British line last
night on the Arras front The Teutons
made their gain at Infantry hill, an
I important eminence east of Monchy
and LePreaux, but part of the ground
was regained this morning. The Ger
mains also attacked violently on the
Aisne front, but were repulsed with
heavy losses.
Bukowina, the Austrian crown prov
ince near the junction of the Ruman
ian and Russian lines on the south
eastern front, is again virtually over
run by Teutonic forces, after having
been in Russian possession some time.
The Teuton advance there was mate
rially aided by the recent disastrous
break in the Russian lines in Galicia,
just north of the province. Czernowitz,
capital and chief city of the province is
reported to have been wrested from the
Russans, while Petrograd announces
that Kinolung in southern Bukowina
has been evacuated. Cxernowitz has
been the scene of much fighting, having
changed hands no less than ten times
during the war.
Russians Cling to Finland.
PETROGRAD, August 3.—The Rus
sian provisional government has for
mally refused to recognize the Finnish
diet as a duly constituted independent
government, and will submit its own
laws governong Russo-Finnish rela
tions.
State of Siege in Greece.
LONDON, August 3.—A state of siege
has been declared throughout the
whole Greek department of Attica, in
cluding Athens and Piraeus, according
to an Athens dispatch, forwarded by
the Exchange Telegraph correspond
ent at the Greek capital.
Piraeus is the port of Athens, and
before the abdication of former King
Constantine, was occupied by Entente
forces.
Naval Gunners Perished.
LONDON, August 3.—Eight naval
gunners and sixteen members of the
crew perished when the American
steamship Montano was torpedoed re
cently.
Szernowitz Occupied by Austrians.
VIENNA. August 3. —(Via Amster
dam) —Austro-Hungarian troops enter
ed Czernowitz, capital of the Austrian
crownland Bukowina, early today. The
city had been in possession of the Rus
sians nearly a year.
DRAFTED MEN MW
START DRILLING NOW
NEW YORK, August 3. —Captain Ar
thur Crosby, of the Military Training
Camp Association, today announced
that all drafted men will be given op
portunity to begin drilling immediately
so they may become non-commissioned
officers, if found fit.
LOCAL ATTORNEY HIS
BROTHER WITH PERSHING
James T. Nisbet, brother of E. A Nis
bet of this city, is with the American
expeditionary force now in France un
der command of Gen. Pershing, accord
ing to information just received in
Americus,
He has for some years been a mem
ber of one of the regiments which now
forms a part of Pershing’s command
DRAFT RESISTANTS
WILL FIGHT FOSSE
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., August 3.
—A band of thirty alleged draft re
sistants, who are believed to have shot
Deputy J. W. Crose, near Wewoka
late yesterday, and fired or dynamited
the ’Frisco railroad trestle over the
South Canadian river last night, are
eported to have established themselves
in the brush south as Sasakwa today.
The desperadoes are said to be prepar
ing to resist attack and arrest by a
strong posse of officers and citizens
gathered from three towns.
FIHILfflilN
FOOD BILL SOON
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 3.
Final action on the Wilson adminis
tration food control bills was forecast
in the house early today when the con
ference reports on both the food sur
vey and food control measures were
presented.
Approval of the conference report on
the part of the house seemed assur
ed today, but the senate was not in
session.
Flßsf 131/ BILE
EOEE TO LESLIE
I The first bale of the 1917 cotton crop
/of Sumter county was ginned today at
Leslie, having been brought in by C.
W. Westbrook, a well known planter
residing near DeSoto, f
The bale will be offered at public
auction late this afternoon, the gin
ning not having been completed as the
Times-Recorder goes to press.
Last year the first bale in Sumter
county was brought to the Commercial
Warehouse in this city on August Ist.
20,800 MEN WILL BE IN
SECOND OFFICERS’ CAMP
WASHINGTON. D. C., August 3.
An increase of thirty per cent, in the
number of candidates to be admitted to
the second officers’ training qamps,
opening Au?ust 27th. has been ordered
by the war department.
Sixteen thousand candidates were to
have been admitted to these camps, ac
cording to the original plans of the de
partment. but today's order increases
the number to be enrolled to 20.800.
The young men who enter these train
ing camps, or so many of them as at
tain required proficiency, will be given
commissions in the national army,
some of them serving with the first
and others with the second increment.
The existing training camps all close
on August 15th, and while a few of the
candidates for commissions will be
permitted to enroll in the second camps
a majority will either be given com
missions or offered non-commissioned
places in the new army. Those who
because of physicial imperfections
proved unsuitable after sufficient train
ing were dismissed from the first
camps and sent back into civil life be
fore the expiration of their terms of
enlistment.
NO SERVICES AT I ITHOLIC
rill'lN’ll HERE NEXT SUNDAY
It is announced for the information
o' all concerned that there will be no
services Sunday at the Catholic church
here. The usual order of services at
this edifice includes a celebration or
the Holy Mass each first and third
Sunday of the month, but the celebra
tion on this first Sunday is to be
omitted.
and is receiving final training for ac
tual service on the western battle
front.
In a letter to relatives here, he de
clares that he "would not trade places
with any man in the world, and is anx.
ions to get into the trenches facing the
soldiers of the kaiser.
EXAMINATION TD
BEGIN TUESDAY
IT GDUR[ HOUSE
Five hundred men in Americus and
Sumter county have received notices
from the Sumter County Exemption
Board summoning them to appear for
physical examination to determine their
liability for military service under the
draft law.
The notices were mailed yesterday
afternoon and beginning on Tuesday
morning of next week, the physical ex
aminations will begin.
The five hundred men have been di
vided into three contingents, which
will report at the courthouse in this
city on separate days, the first 167 ap.
pearing at 8 o’clock on Tuesday, the
next 167 at 8 o’clock on Wednesday,
and the last 166 at 8 o’clock Thursday
morning. This division of the men was
decided upon in order that the work of
the examining physicians may be com
pleted with the greatest possible effi
ciency.
Drs. R. E. Cato, H. A. Smith and D.
B. Mayes will conduct the examina
tions, using the two petit rooms ad
joining the courtroom on the second
floor of the courthouse and the grand
jury room.
It is expected that the examination
cf each man will consume about 10
minutes, although it is possible that a
better average can be maintained. With
three physicians working, it should be
possible to complete the examination
of the entire 500 men within the allot
ted three days.
If a drafted man is found physically
fit for service, he must file his inten
tion of claiming examination without
delay, for seven days are allowed for
the filing of these notices after the first
summons is mailed by the exemption
board. Ten days are then allowed for
the filing of affidavits in support of ex
emption claims.
The rejection of a man on the physi
cal examination makes it unnecessary
for him to file an exemption claim.
While it is expected that Sumter
county’s quota of 187 men will be se
cured from the 500 summoned t for ex
amination, in case this does not result,
an additional number will be summon
|ed to appear for examination in order
to complete the full quota.
GERMAN FACTORIES TO HAVE
BRANCHES IN SCANDINAVIA
COPENHAGEN, Aug. 3.—Germany
lis believed to be making preparations
I for the establishment in Denmark and
j Sweden, of a large number of branches
jof well known German factories and
industrial firms, says the Svenska Dag-
Ibladet. The plans if carried out would
|be very detrimental to neutral trade
j since the countries of the Allies would
bo naturally suspicious of all neutral
firms which might be serving German
interests The paper suggests a com
bination of industry and finance to
offset this German influence.
FUNERAL OF I. W. W.
LEADER ON SUNDAY
BUTTE, Montana, August 3. —The
funeral of Frank Little, prominent In
dustrial Workers of the World leader,
who was lynched here Wednesday, has
been arranged for Sunday. The occas
ion, it is stated, will be made the scene
of a great demonstration, if the civil
and military authorities will permit
striking miners to march in the fun
eral pageant.
LOCAL BOARDS TO
LODKJtf SUSPECTS
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 3.
Local exemption boards, it is an
nounced, are to be charged with de
ciding whether draft registrants re
ported to be slackers come under this
head, and if so found, the boards will
act. accordingly.
FUNERAL OF YDUNS
SAILOR TOMORROW
The funeral of young Benjamin L.
Methvin, which was to have taken
place this afternoon, will be held in
stead at eleven o’clock tomorrow, Sat
urday morning, at Pleasant Grove
church, in the 28th District. This
change is due to the failure of the body
to arrive when it was expected.
The young man died on Wednesday
morning at the Naval Training School
at Portsmouth, Va„ after a short ill
ness. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
James A. Methvin and enlisted in the
United States Navy about three months
ago.
ULTINIATUNTwAS
IN BERLIN HOURS
BEFOHEDISPATGH
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 3.
German authorities had possession of
Austria's ultimatum to Serbia fourteen
hours before the document was deliv
ered at Belgrade in 1914, according to
positive information which has reach
ed officials here, and is made public
today for the first time. It is stated in
connection with the disclosure that
Foreign Secretary Zimmerman, when
pressed closely as to Germajiy’s know- ;
ledge of the action of her ally which
startfd the war. admitted prior know
ledge of the ultimatum, a fact which
he publicly denied at the time the doc
ument was delivered.
Tastes Zeitiing Offers Evidence.
AMSTERDAM, August 3. The
Deutsche Tages Zeitung challenges the
German government, in its issue of to
day, to prosecute Deputy Cohen, so- ;
cialist, for his alleged revelation of the .
action Os the crown council (bunde
trath) held just befort the war be
gun. The newspaper, in support of its
challenge to the Germans, offers to
give the fullest evidence that this rev
elatoin led to publication of the Lon
don Times story saying that German .
authorities knew of the existence of
the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia be
fore its was despatched to Belgrade.
HOUSE INILIIOLD
DOUBLE SESSION
ATLANTA, Ga., August 3 —The Geor-I
gia house of representatives has begun
to really transact business. After its
four or five efforts and failures to get
the machine in running order, and stop
its wobbling about over the road, the
rules committee yesterday finally put] 1
one ever ami there will be an after-'
noon session today. The morning ses. 1
sion got under way again at 9 o’clock
and at 3 a second session of the day 1
will be entered upon. For a week ’
the committee has been trying to do *
that very thing. It did it with re- ’
ports, recommendations and by mo- !
Itions, but every time the house turned 1
the committee down flat. Yesterday 1
before the principal objectors had ap
peared upon, the scene Vr e-Chairman
Jones asked unanimous consent that 1
the sessions be fixed for both morning 1
and afternoon. There was no noise or p
parade or fan-fare over the request and '
not a voice sounded against it.
This action is taken to have broken
the ice; the rules committee has :
caught a toe-hold and it is now gener- 1
ally taken for granted that, except Sat-,
urday, the pro: ram to the end of the''
session will be two sittings a day and
the rules committee will be back on its
sometimes job of the past, running
things. No provision yet has been I
made that the committee shall havtl
complete charge of the afternoon cal • (
endars, but that proposition is expect
ed today and the sentiment is that the
authority will be granted and selected l
legislation will be run through daily
in the afternoons. Nobody now dis-
riTv
V edition!
WILL IM LARGE
STOCKS OF MANY
STAPLEPRODUCTIr
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 3_—
Reduction from 15 to 10 per cent- is
the proposed tax on undivided surplus
of corporations, joint stock companies
and associations and imposition-, of ne«
floor” taxes upon large accumulated
stocks of sugar, coffee, tea and eocau
have been decided on by the sensate
finance committee in revising the war
tax bill. It is planned to complete the
bill Saturday and begin senate debate
next week.
The levy on undistributed sarpiue
virtually is a sur-tax on corporate in
comes which now pay only a flat tax,.,
although individual incomes are sur
taxed. Reduction of the rate to ID
per cent, followed the committee’s re
cent decision to treble the normal cor
poration tax, raising $162,000,000 more
revenue from that source.
Cuts Down Revenue.
From the proposed 15 per cent rate
it was estimated that $25,000,000 in
revenues would result. The 10 per
cent, tax will raise much less as in
addition to the 5 per cent, reduction,
the committee decided to exempt from
the 10 per cent, surplus that is "‘ac
tually invested and employed in busi
ness or retained for employment in the
reasonable requirements of the bwsH
ness.”
The new floor tax on sugar, coffee,,
tea and cocoa is at the same rate a®
are prescribed in the bill for consump
tion taxes on these products. The pro
vision was added to subject to tax at ion
large stocks of these commodities im
ported in anticipation of the proposed,
consumption taxes. Some dealers are
said to have a year’s supply on hand
which would be reached only by a floor
tax. The rates are:
Limited Amounts Exempt.
Sugar, l-2c a pound; coffee, 2 cents;
tea, 5 cents, and cocoa, 2c to 5c Litnfteci'
amounts in the hands of small dealers
are to be exempt
Important administrative provisions
affecting income and profit taxes ap
proved today by the committee au
thorize the treasury department to
permit or require monthly installmens
payment of such taxes, between March
and June 25 of each year, when they
are payable. Many corporations have
requested the monthly installment pay
ment privilege because of the necessity
to borrow large sums frequently far
bulk payment required under existing,
law.
Another new clause authorizes pay
ment of income and war excess profits
taxes by uncertified checks or by the
new treasury short-term certificates of
indebtedness.
Refuse to Exempt Farmers.
A motion by Senator Gore to exempt
i farmers from the new war excess prof
its tax on individuals in trade or busi
ness was rejected by the commtitee.
A new clause added to the war profits
sections provides a new standard for
calculating tax exemptions of those
claiming that their pre-war profits
were sub-normal Under the plan, fl
the. secretary of the treasury sliould
find exemption claims are justified,
those claiming exemption would be en
titled to that allowed to new corpora
tions not in existence before the ear.,
whose income and profits would be
based upon that of companies or indi
viduals engaged in the same general
line of trade or business.
putes the fact that unless this a«-
thority is given the committee and ex
ercised by it there will be at the con
clusion more a record of what the
session has not done than what it teas..
With the operation of the old custom'
and the guidance of legislation by the
committee, there is yet a possibility
that some salvation for big legislation
can be worked out in the remaining,
days and something of a reasonable re
cord for the session will be obtained
in the end.
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