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THE TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 1879.
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City of Americus. j
Sumter County.
Webster County. '
Esflroad Commission of Georgia For ,
Third congressional Dustrict
TJ. S. Court, Southern District of !
Georgia.
dint riciis, Ga.. August 12. 1917
Tve determination of the federal
authorities to consider agricultural ex-
claims on the basis of indi
viflual representations means that the
bare are to be raised much higher than
was first anticipated.
There is much talk of dealin?
larshly with draft resisters and in
dividuals who spread seditious doc-
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trsaes, but how about those misguided
llmalts who appeared at the White
Hotxse gates with banners addressing
■the President as "Kaiser Wilson.’’
The British labor party realizes
pretty thoroughly that a lasting peace
t an only be secured by a complete vic
tory over the Teuton militarists and
the memorandum submitted by the
labor it es’ special committee indicates
thai the working men of the English
nation are solidly with the govern
ment.
They arrested a “culhid person” in
■Macon the other day for appropriating
'.the cemetery gate, and on being ar
raigned before the bar of justice, the
dasJiy ctilprit defended himself by
declaring that the gate was useless,
since the folks on the inside of the
barrier had never exhibited any desire
.*» leave.
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The opponents of the Georgia Norm
al & Industrial College have failed to
show any good reason why that insti
tiition should not participate in the
■distribution of the federal fund pro
vided by the Smith-Lever bill and con
sequently the members of the lower
ftonse took the only fair view of the
matter and voted to divide the fund on
an equitable basis.
According to a decision of an At-
Imita judge, a newsboy may yell at
the top of his lungs while advertising
his wares, but the humble citizen who
is awakened at an unearthly hour on
Sunday morning by urchins exercising
their vocal chords in an endeavor to
dispose of divers publications, is
tempted to take the law into his own
hands and dispense justice more in
accord with his personal views.
The Atlanta Constitution expresses
the hope that Georgia may soon get
her share of the federal highway fund
and grieves over the ineffectual ef
iflurts made thus far to secure any
part es the money made available un
der the governemnt-aid law. It is
restsonably certain that Georgia will
get but little assistance froji the fed
eral government until highway con
stnicfion in this state is placed on a
xpure efficient basis of administration
A ( ALL FOR HELP.
On another page of this issue, the
Times-Reocrder publishes an appeal to
the white citizens of Sumter county
from the Americus Institute, an educa
tional institution which has for its
object the vocational training of negro
children.
Within a few weeks the school will
celebrate its 20th anniversary and a
special effort is being made to raise a
fun of SIO,OOO to be used in liquidating
j certain items of indebtedness and in
purchasing a farm which will be used
a- 1 one of the principal facilities in the
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.educational system.
| While most of the residents of this
' section are aware of the existence of
the Americus Institute, comparative-!
ly few realize the extent of its opera
tions and the practical value of the'
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work it has been doing for the bet-
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terment of conditions among ne
groes. For twenty years the school
jHias been affording to negro students
: advantages which fit them for better 1
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(service in their sphere of activity. No i
i attempt is made by the institution to i
(develop a spirit of antagonism or pre-
judice in the minds of its students, but i
(on the contrary, every effort is made to <
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i promote good feeling between the
1 races. ■;
During the 20 years since the es- ]
tablishment of the Americus Institute?:
the police records of the city of Amer
icus show that none of its students
have figured in disturbances where the
exercise of police authority was nec
essary. The underlying idea at the
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school is to raise the standard of liv- 1
ing among negroes, but at the same
time to avoid all friction with the
white population i‘
Students at the institution are
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I taught* sewing, cooking, housekeeping
in general, manual training and agri
culture, while the fundamentals of
‘ book learning” are inculcated as well.]
I The negroes graduated from the school
go out among their people and act as
a leavening influence, so that the ac- 1
tual results are to make the negro bet- 1
ter able to perform his share of the
[tasks of every day life.
The Americus Institute is not self
sustaining and were it not for dona
tions received from various educational
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funds, it would be impossible for it to I
continue, so that the effort to secure a I
birthday fund of SIO,OOO is of utmost I
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importance to the institution.
The school has many friends among
the white residents of this section and |
the appeal for financial assistance at’
this time will not fall on deaf ears.
WITH HARE AMI HOI’XDS.
We all hope that it may not last
a great length of time, but every
patriot is determined to back his
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government with his life, with his
last dollar if necessary, to bring
this war to a successful conclus
ion.
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No. gentle reader, that was not the
impassioned apostrophe of a Henry A. 1
Wise Wood, of William H. Taft, of a
Beck or a Gerard, a Root or Choate —
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but the official utterance —for the Con
gressional Record —of Hoke Smith,
senior Senator from Georgia, mailed
all over the state to his doubtful and
suspicious constituents; of the Sena-
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tor whose left hand blocked and ob
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structed the food bill and almost ev
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ery administrative policy to further
the war under the comparative mantle
of secrecy afforded by executive com-
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iritteee meetings, whilst his voice
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ithundered patriotism on the floor of
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J the Senate at unimportant times; of
the same Hoke Smith who prated of
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, I his having voted for the conscript
bill but who stated in private con-
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I versation he wanted his own son to
keep decisively clear of any such
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'foolishness, the same Hoke who now
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(says we’ll sacrifice every life if nec-
■ essary to bring the war to a conclus-
. ion.
11 It is doubtful if this generation of
; American politics has been afforded
J such an example of deliberate and
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. studied duplicity as afforded by this
. man from Georgia wearing the toga
. of a United States Senator who on the
I floor of the Senate and to his constit
juents mouths loyalty and administra
. tion policies while behind closed doors
i and in important committees, where
[ support actually counts, he has in al-
■1 lost every instance been found doing
things and fighting for things to
render impotent and indirectional the
efforts of his own country to partici
pate effectively in the war. He would
hold the loyal and faithful sentiment
■ at home in his state while he does the
work of Potsdam where it counts the
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most —under cover.
His latest shenanigan has been on
the food bill for which he voted with
the triumphant majority with great
unction while in committee meetings
where he sat he had employed every
trick and artifice to hold the measure
i,'. dispute, in wrangling and obstruc -
I tion and finally to bring it out so
mangled it could not have done any
possible good.
Among the men who rendered the
I most effective service against a com
petent and effective food control bill
.have been Reed of Missouri and
Smith of Georgia. The final vote —
( out in the open for all men to see—
saw the Missouri Senator sticking by |
his guns and flinching not from his!
reprehensible and indictable stand. It'
saw the Georgia Senator voting trium-1
phantly, with blandness and brazen
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unction with the steadfast and patri
otic majority which had actually!
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forced such committee sand-baggers'
as he to come out with an effective I
law, after their every artifice to ob
struct and delay had been frustrated.
Macon Telegraph.
Korniloff, now commander of Rus
sia’s armies, comes to supreme au
thority' in the field in the darkest hour
his land has known. The Russian
I army is spy-infested and mutinous, de
moralized by retreat and by the in
subordination due to an unaccustom
led sense of liberty. The nation, which
'should support the army, is torn by
I factions, disorganized politically, men
laced continually by the conspiracies
and the propaganda of the pro-Ger
mans and of those who mistake liberty
for license.
Everywhere the Russians are fall
ling back. They have surrendered the
jl’skull bridgehead which guarded
Riga, they have been beaten in the
Pripet morshes, have abandoned the
(Galician territory which Korniloff's
| troops had just won. They are aband
oning the Bukowina, have lost Czern
jowitz and Kimpalun.?, where the re
| public’s forces had long maintained a
Toothold in the Carpathians, and their
(retirement there spells disaster to the
t Roumanians, who, with futile valor,
had extended their lines by a recent
offensive designed to lessen pressure
cn their Russian allies.
The Allies can only hope that
Korniloff will prove a fitting agent in
the work of rehabilitating Russia's
armies. He is a Siberian Cossack, a
calvary commander ot marked ability
and he has the knack of making men
follow him. His record in the three
i years of the war has been a distingu
ished one, including, as it does. the
'leading of a number of dashing cav
-1 airy raids, an escape from the Aus
trian prison and the breaking of the
Austro-German line of Stanislas less
. than a month ago. Now comes his
1 reward, and his great test.
IJ Nicholas Nicolavitch and Brussiloft
■ ( were great generals, and Korinloff
. ( cen hardly be expected to show more
-of military genius than did they. If
■ he can win the loyalty of the men he
. commands, if he can make them fight
. for Russia, he will accomplish much
. and will justify his appointment in the
eyes of Russia’s friends.—-Clevelandi
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; Dealer.
GERMANY THREE YEARS AGO
ANO TODAY.
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Three years ago Germany was re
joicing in abounding prosperity. its ■
. commerce encircled the globe; its in
dustrial activity was the wonder and
admiration of all nations; its scien
tists ranked among the world’s fore
[ most leaders in achievements; its
.people were honored by the whole '
> world, even though some of their'
peculiarities caused many thoughtful [
men to regard with some degree of
fear the future of a country where the
teaching that “might makes right” hal
been sapping the moral strength oi
the nation. It was not realized, how
ever. that the microbe of this disease
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had so thoroughly penetrated the
! whole body of German life as to have
’ made it rotten to the core.
I Outwardly Germany was fair to look
upon, and until the fearful day when
i Kaiser Wilhelm and his followers un
loosed the spirit of Evil upon the
world, Germany ranked among the
greatest and most honored nations on
earth.
Today, Germany is not merely hated,
it is regarded with the most supreme
contempt and loathing by every right
thinking man on earth.
Germany, the once rich and pro
gressive country, is today staggering
beneath of lead of indebtedness which
bids fair to wreck and ruin the Gov
ernment and the people of that land
and of Austria as well.
From a country of civilization, Ger
many has become a country of bar
barism.
From a land of prosperity, it has
become a land of almost endless
poverty, where woe and want and
gaiujt hunger are everywhere in evi
dence.
Millions of its ablest men are dead.
Every family throughout its borders
has suffered the agony of the three
years of its hell-born, unjustifiable
war.
The very flower of its life, the men
whose abilities would have carried
Germany to still greater world pre
eminence in commerce and industry,
have, with their bodies, fattened the
fields of Belgium and France and
;ether countries.
It was left to Germany to lead the
world in murder on the high seas, in
the outraging of women and in the
murder cf women and children with
its hell-born work of dropping de
structive bombs on unfortified cities
from the air.
It was left to Germany to write on
submarine a crime unspeakable in its
atrccity against the world.
It was left to eGrmany to write on
the pa'es of history the blackest stains
that ever marked the history of man
kind.
Hundreds of millions of people in
the allied countries, as in neutral
ci untries, will, for generations to
come, look upon the crimes commit
ted by German soldiers with a loath
ing which no human words can ex
press.
From its high estate of esteem an I
prosperity three years ago Germany
has fallen to the lowest depth of hu
man degredation. And for what? In
order that Kaiser Wilhelm and the mil
itary spirit of evil which surrounds
him might destroy democracy and on
i-s grate build a world domination of
autocracy.
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In all the experience of mankind
(there is nothing with which to com
' pare the record of Germany’s descent
[from civilization into barbarism, from
• prosperity into woe and want. from
' the abounding healthfulness of its
■ people into the awful toll of death and
' suffering and sadness which, like a
all of darkness, spreads over the
'lend; from its high place in the
world’s esteem to the loathing with
which it is now regarded by the
wcrld.
In. all the record of human history
there has been nothing to match the
• arful crimes committed in behalf of
Prussian militarism, and Germany,
like all others guilty of unprecedented
sin, shall yet learn that its sins shall
fir.d it out and it shall yet pay the
fearful penalty fff the unspeakable
crimes which have stained its course
beyond the combined crimes of all
other countries of all other ages.
On August 6, 1914, at the very be
ginning of this war, the Manufactur
ers Record said;
“Hi inanity may be staggered by
the horrors of Europe’s war, but civ
ilization will net be destroyed. Mil
lions of men and billions of treasure
may be lost in this devilish work;
thrones may totter and new maps of
Europe may be necessary before the
ei d is reached; but mankind will, on
the wreck of these ruins, build a bet
ter civilization —one in which the peo
ple, and not a few unscrupulous men
who feel that they have been Divinely
appointed, will rule.’’
Despite all of its power for evil
which Germany has been able to mus
ter, we have an abiding faith in the
overruling providence of Almighty
God that Germany shall be conquered
and made to pay, as far as it is pos
sible for human beings in this world
to atone for sin. for all the fearful
crimes and all the misery', all the
death and all the sorrows and all the
money loss of the last three years.
Civilization would indeed be a failure
if tl is should not prove to be the case.
Manufacturers’ Record.
That general war council to be
held in Germany may be for the pur
pose of canvassing the situation and
trying to discover whether any detail
has been overlooked to make the pro
gram of “frightfulne.-s" complete.
THE BEST TEST
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Years ago this Americus resident
told of good results from using Doan’s
Kidney Pills. Now' A. C. Alexander,
grocer, of 712 Spring St., confirms the
former statement—says there has
been no return of the trouble. Can
Americus people ask for more con
vincing testimony?
Mr. Alexander says: “My back
caused me much suffering and I was
hardly able to perform my duties on
account of the pains. The action of
my kidneys was very irregular and
too frequent, causing me to get up a
number of times at night. Doan's
Kidney Pills soon relieved me of the
pain in my back and the action of mv
kidneys became regular. The pains
left and I have never felt them since.”
(Statement given March 18, 1910).
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On June 16, 1914, Mr. Alexander
said; “Doan’s Kidney Pills made a
cure for me which has proven perma
nent and now my back and kidneys
ijon’t bother me a bit.”
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HOGS! HOGS!! HOGS!!!
Attention Farmers:—The Government Experts say “Food
will win the war:” It is the duty of our Georgia farmer
to raise all the hogs tor market he possibly can. Call or
write me when you have fat hogs for sale.
JAMES G. COWAN
P. O. Box 288, Americus, Ga.
Phone 374
SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 1917