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niRTY-NINTH TEAR.
•PROPOSAL FOR PEACE
COMES FROM VATICAN
Pope Benedict Transmits Ten
tative Basis for Cessation
of Hostilities
STATUS ID ANTE IS
SUBSTANCE OF PLAN
Allies Look Askance On Prop
osition As Announced By
Papal Representatives
ROME, August 14.—Peace proposals
originating at the Vatican have been
delivered by Pope Benedict to all the
belligerents. The proposals, it is an
nounced, suggest the restoration of
Belgium, Servia and Rumania, and
the settlement by peaceful means of
the problems presented in Alsace-Lor
raine, Trente, Trieste and oPland.
It is announced that the Spanish am -
bassador at Rome said the proposal
had already been made to the Italian
government and that possibly the
Spanish ambassador at Washington
might convey it to the American gov
ernment. There is no disposition any
where to ascribe any but the loftiest
motives to the Pope in his acceptance
of proposals emanating from Vienna.
•but the first question to be raised in
quires as to what relations exist be
tween the Central Powers and the
Vatican.
Entente diplomatic representatives
at Washington have agreed not to
comment publicly upon the proposal
until the communication is first receiv
ed and considered at the Allied capi
tals.
The reduction of armaments, settle
ment of all international disputes by
binding arbitration, freedom of the
seas to all nation and elimination of
retaliatory measures in the after-the
war struggle for economic supremacy,
are said to be the foundation upon
which the Pope’s proposal is predi
cated.
State Department Informed.
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 14.
State department authorities acknow
ledged early today they had unofficial
word concerning Pepe Benedict’s peace
proposal to the belligerents. They
would say nothing further, however,
until the proposal is officially receiv
ed. It is believed, though, that what
ever consideration is given the pro
posal will be after consultation with
the Entente Allies.
The Apostolic delegation accredited j
to the United States disclaimed all ]
krowledge of the proposal, while with !
in Entente diplomatic circles the opin. '
ion was freely expressed that the'
movement originated in Germany, and I
was an attempt to split the allies in
a conflicting discussion of their war
aims.
London’s iVew of Proposal.
LONDON. August 14. —Summed up.
I’ope Benedict’s peace proposals pro
vide for a restoration of the statt s-quo
ante. leaving the question of readjust
ment of frontiers to undefined “subse
quent negotiations.”
SHOI I D PAY ALIMONY
* EYEN AT AGE OF SEVENTY
ATLANTA. Ga., Aug. 14.—Should a
man be excused from paying alimony
at the age of seventy on the ground
that he is too old to work?
No. says Judge John T. Pendleton
of Fulton superior court, who is up
wards of seventy himself and who be
lieves there is a lot of lively work
still left in a man at that age.
Accordingly when Thomas Lawrence,
who is seevnty and is resisting the
payment of alimony to his wife, plead
his age as an excuse, Judge Pendleton
cut him off.
"Oh, seventy is not very old,” ex
claimed the judge. “You can do a lot
of good work yet.”
THE NEWS WHILE IT IS NEWS—COMPREHENSIVE LOC \L AND TELEGKAPHIC SERVICE—THE HOME PAPER PAR EXCELLENCE
CHINE DECLARES
■ 01 TELtTONS
WASHINGTON, D. C„ August
Official notice of a Chinese declaration
of war on Germany and Austria was
received at the Chinese legation today
in a dispatch from Peking.
GEORGIA THOOPS
TO GO TO FRANCE
IN FIRST ARMT
»
WASHINGTON. D. C., August 14.
It is announced that plans for sending
the first national guard troops from
the United States to France were per
fected with the organization of a new
army division including men from
twenty-six states of the union and the;
District of Columbia. The selection
of troops to form the first unit of the
guardsmen assigned to expeditionary
service was so designed as to include
fighting units from all sections of
the country, Georgia troops, among
others being chosen among the first
to be sent abroad. Details of the or
ganizations to embark first are still
withheld, and it is, therefore, impos
sible to state whether infantry, cavalry
or artillery troops will be the first to
represent Georgia in France. South
Carolina and Florida are Southern
'states none of whose troops are in
eluded within the first quota of guards
men assigned to service at the front.
The division selected for foreign ser
vice will be known officially as the
Forty-Second division, and its person
net conforms to the plan for reducing
the number of men constituting a di
cision to twenty-twe thousand. Briga
dier General W. A. Mann will be in im
mediate command as the division, re |
porting in France to Gen. Pershing.;
who is commander in chief of all the
American expeditionary forces.
The Eighty-Fourth Infantry brigade
includes the 151 machine gun com
pany, termed of Companies B, C and F,
Second Georgia Infantry, an engineer
regiment, tot be known as the 117th
Engineers, the regiment including in
its organization the First Separate
South Carolina Battalion of engineers
BAR TOM MON’S
PAPER FROM MAILS
Postmaster D. F. Davenport today
received telegraphic information from
the postdflice department at Washing
tern, D. C., that “The Jtffersonian.”
published by Thomas E. Watson, at
Thomson, Ga., had been barred from
the United States mails.
Its entry as second class matter has
been withdrawn and the publication
will not be received at the postoffice at
Thomson, while any copies mailed by
private individuals will be held up and
denied the privilege of transportation
and delivery.
The action of the postoffice authori
ties is assumed to be due to the pro
nounced activity of Watson in fighting
the draft law and the abusiye arraign
ment of the federal government in
"The Jeffersonian.”
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AMERIEUSTIMES-RECORDER
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
□TART TODAY TO
PASS ON CLAIMS
FOR EXEMPTION;
The Sumter Exemption Board began'
this afternoon to consider exemption!
claims filed by the drafted men who!
have been passed by the examining
physicians. The first session of the
board to take up the matter of ex
emption claims is being held this as
ternoon.
T'nder the orders from Washington,
the claims must be taken up in the
order the men were drawn and in ■
some cases where affidavits have n<|t I
yet been filed in support of claims, it j
will be necessary for the board to de- j
lay action until all the proofs are at I
hand. The claimants are allowed ten I
days from the date of their physical ’
examination for the filing of ai|idavits
in support of exemption claims, and
as the examinations were held on
August 7, 8 and 9, the time limit will
not expire until August 17, 18 and 19.
The board will pass on such exemp
tion claims as are supported by affida
vits already filed, but strict observ
ance will be paid to the order in which;
the men were drafted in the selective
drawing.
R. L. Maynard this morning re
ceived telegraphic notice from Provost
Marshal General Crowder through
Adjt.-Gen. Van Holt Nash, that he has
been “drafted” to represent the gov
ernment in appeals from the decisions
of the local exemption board. The in
structions to Mr. Maynard are that he
stall look after the interests of the
government in such cases as may in
his discretion require further inquiry
and consideration by the district board.
Decisions on exemptions made by the
local board may be appealed either
by the government or the claimant,
and in such instances Mr. Maynard
will represent the federal government.
Six men were examined this min
ing by the examining physicians, five
of them having been previously exam
ined but found to be under weight, ac-1
cording to the first scale of weights!
furnished by the authorities. Later al
revised scale of weights was an
nounced and five men who had been
rejected on this ground were sum
moned to appear for a re-examination
this morning.
Os this five, only one was rejected
for physical disability, the other four
conforming to the regulations as re
vised under the new instructions. The
men accepted by the examining physic
ians after re-examination were Levie
M Johnson, Homer Jackson Prance,
Wi)lie Jackson and Willie Jones Bass.
On secend examination Joseph Curry
Pouncey failed to meet the revised
physical requirements and was reject
ed. J. E. Griffin, who was allowed an
e? tension of time to appear for phy
sical examination on account of ab
sence from the city, was examined
this morning and accepted.
CftNNDT GET SALT Oh
LIST OFJTRISHABLES
It will be impossible for the Food
Administration Board to place salt on
the list of perishable products which ,
will receive first consideration at the ]
hands of the railroads and steamship (
lines. This hag been made clear in a
letter received by Secretary P. A. Fen- (
imore of the Americus and Sumter ,
County Chamber of Commerce, from
Herbert Hoover, just appointed food (
administrator of the nation by Presi- ,
dent Wilson.
The Chamber of Commerce has been (
endeavoring to have salt designated in
the perishable classification in order
that the freight movement of this veryll
essential commodity might be hasten- |
ed. The large quantity of salt used
by farmers of this section in preserv
ing their meat supply this fall \jas
represented to the federal authorities
and the' great increase in the amount
of meat to be cured this year was also ,
brought to the attention of Mr. Hoover. ]
It is suggested by the Food Admin
istration that sufficient storage ca
pacity be secured to permit of a large
quantity of salt being placed on hand {
for the use of farmers in this section. (
but no other remedy for the situation j
it given.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 14, 1917
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TO CONGRESS
FOR ANOTHER LOAN
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 14.
Congress is soon to be asked to author
ize the extending, of another loan
amounting in the aggregate to between
; three and four billion dollars, to the
(Entente Allies. Secretary McAdoo, of
|,the treasury department, and Majority
i Leader Kitchin agreed on this today,
i as well as on the desirability of rais
. ing in excess of two billions by taxa-
I tion, in preference to a bond issue.
In accordance with this agreement,
it is considered probable that congress
will be asked to again revise the war
tax bill in such manner as to provide
the revenue desired.
FEW CHANGE 3 ON
ANY BATTLE FRONT
NEW YORK, August 14. —Compiled
by the Associated Press from European
cables during the day.)—Few changes
on any of the European battle fronts
are reported in today’s dispatches.
In France and Belgium there have
been sharp engagements, but nothing
reported indicates fighting on a large
scale.
Paris reports the German lines near
b helms were penetrated by French re
connoitering parties and that German
raiders were driven back in the Cham
pagne.
HIGHWAY OFFICIALS ID
MAE INSPECTION TOUR
I
It is announced that within -a short
time a tour of inspection of the Dixie
Highway will be made by M. M. Al
lison, of Chattanooga, Tenn., president
cf the Dixie Highway association, and
Directors W. T. Anderson, of Macon,
and Clark Howell, of Atlanta.
The tour is expected to include the
Sumter county link of the highway
and. in fact, the entire Western Divis-l
ion. although no definite date has been
fixed for the inspection.
President Allison and Directors An
derson and Howell are anxious to in
vestigate actual road conditions along
the Dixie Highway route and will make
a detailed report to the parent asso
ciation on the completion of the trip.
RED CROSS WILL FREE
CAMP SITE OF MALARIA
Washington, d. c., August 14.
I
The Red Cross war council today an-|
ncunced it had appropriated SIO,OOOI
of its funds to be used to free the
site and surroundings of the Colum
b’a, S C., cantonment of malaria and
malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
Announcement of the big appropria
tion is n line with the council’s pro
■ laimed policy of making cantonments
and their surroundings as free from
disease as possible.
MT NEW GENERALS
APPOINTED 81 WILSON
WASHINGTON, D. C„ August 14
The nominations of more than two
hundred major generals and brigadier
generals were sent to the senate by
President Wilson today. The batch of
nominations all all general officers of
the National Guard, Walter A. Harris,
oi Macon, Georgia, beifig among those
named to be brigadier general.
PLAN FOR WHEAT
CONTROL AGREED
UPON GT HOARD
WASHINGTON, D. C„ August 14.
I Plans for controlling the distribution
of wheat and for regulating the manu -
facture and sale of flour have been
completed by the food administration.
Creation of a wheat cotrol board
will be announced as soon as President
Wilson has approved its personnel.
This board, comprising officials of the
food administration and leading men
from the grain and milling industries,
will be made responsible for putting
into effect measures announced last
night by the food administration. Reg
ulations governing the control of wheat
from the time it leaves the producer
until it reaches the baker will go in
to effect Sept. 1. To eliminate specu
lation all elevators and mills of more
than 100 barrels daily capacity will be
required to take out a government li
cense. The hope of the food adminis
tration is that the industries will co
operate with the government and that
many of the drastic powers given to
the president in the food control bill
will not have to be’invoked.
In fixing a price to be paid produc
ers for wheat the food administration,
it was said, will seek the give the far
mer a fair price, and at the same time 1
name a figure which will permit the ■
public to receive bread at a price 1
much below that now prevailing. Li- ;
c< nses will be granted to flour mills 1
only on condition that they charge a 1
fair and reasonable price for their 1
product. 1
As soon as the wheat and flour in- I
dustries have been put under regula- 1
tion, the food administration plans to
extend its control to bakeries, hoping 1
to reduce the price now paid for bread.
There is no present plan to put cereals '
other than wheat under immediate con- 1
trol, although sugar soon may be un- 1
der government supervision. 1
The price of the 1917 crop of wheat ’
to the farmer will be fixed by a com- 1
mittee of which President Garfield, of '
Williams college, will be chairman ’
The names of the other members havt»
not been made public. Congress in |'
passing the food bills, set a price of 1
$? on the 1917 wheat crop. 1
The announced purpose of the food 1
administration is to correct abuses in
fcod administration with as little dis- 1
location to business as possible.
break muHFOR i
NEW H BRIDGE ;
It
Construction work began today on
i the new Flint river bridge to bej (
erected at Murray’s Ferry jointly by (
I Dooly and Sumter counties. The
■ 1
I Southern Bridge Company, which had
I I 1
I the contract for the structure, has its,,
I I
I engineers and workmen on the job'
land no time will be lost in preparing (
I the concrete abutments which will sup- .
port the huge main span across the (
I channel of the stream. I (
I All the material necessary for the!
| construction of the concrete work has 1 ,
I I
I arrived and is on the ground, so that 1 ]
no delay will be caused from this i
source.
The steel for the main span properl
is expected to arrive by the time thei (
concrete work is completed and with-j
in 60 days the bridge should be ready I
for use, although the approach from ! (
the Sumter county side will have to be I
I c
constructed before traffic can pass over j
the bridge.
The bridge, exclusive of the ap-l
I roaches on both sides of the river,
will cost about $12,000, while the addi-
s
tional expense of constructing the ap
; reaches will increase the total cost
considerably. Both Dooly and Sumter
(■cunties are sharing the expense of
the new bridge, which will facilitate'
s
traffic passing east and west along
this route. !.
i'
It is planned to have the new bridge I
readv for traffic by January 1, 1918. i
p
The Georgia Travelers’ Protective
r
association has officially endorsed the
project through the efforts of Max
, v
Panner, of Columbus, and S. J. Sladt.l
£
chairman of the good roads committee
r
of the state organization.
AMERICAN LABOR WILL
HARS/EST CANADIAN CROP
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 14.
American labor is to be supplied this
year for the first time in history, to
assist in harvesting Canadian crops,
under terms of an agreement reached
between the Canadian deputy commis
sioners of the interior now in this
country and United States officials. Im
migration regulations established by
both the United States and Canada are
t‘. be mutually waived during the con.
tinuance of the harvest season, and
thousands of Americans are expected
to ?o into the Canadian fields and as
sist in harvest work.
TABLE mIILL
WHORE
FROM DEFEAT
ATLANTA, Ga., August 14. —After
having perfected the bill to revise the
general tax act late yesterday after
noon, advocates of the bill had the
measure tabled in order to save it
from defeat with which it was threat
ened by senators opposing -it on the
ground that it sought to place the bur
den of increasing the revenue of the
state upon the small business concern
and at the same time ignored real
capital. The opposing senators were
particularly antagonistic toward the
bill because a provision to reach ne
gotiable papers for taxation was cut
from the bill.
The difference between the bill and
the act of 1909, which it seeks to re
vise, consists largely in the inclusion
in the bill of a large number of items
contained in the tax ordinances of
the city of Atlanta, most of these items
being on small business concerns not
included in the tax act of 1099, and
many of which businesses were not in
existence at the time of the passagg of
the 1909 act.
The amendment in the house, which
was designed to create the machinery
whereby the state could readily reach
negotiable paper, was killed in the
house.
The senate at the afternoon session
yesterday killed a part of the bill
which would have required banking
concerns to submit their property for
taxation at the same valuation as
shown in the published statements of
condition made in response to the call
o p the bank examiner. It was this
so-called exemption of big business and
the taxing of small concerns which
appeared to have created the opposi
tion to the bill in the senate.
The status of the bill now is that it
lies upon the table subject to being
called up immediately upon the wish I
of the senate. The appropriations bill, 1
which the senate took up this morning
will not have precedence over the tax
bill, if the senate sees fit to call it
from the table. Leaders in the tLht
of yesterday afternoon to kill the bill,
however, stated that any effort to take
the bill from the table’ will meet with
opposition.
The temper of the senate is that the
burden is not upon them, even if the
bill is cut, but that it is and will be
upon the house. The statement has !
been made that seventeen members of
the senate are standing for the $4,000,-
000 common school appropriation, 1
while others have declared, since the |
house has put on that figure and pass-'
ed the buck to the senate, they are 1
disposed to change it to $5,000,000 and 1
pass the bill back to see the house
” I
wrestle with it as they see fit.
Nothing of this sort is going to
mean that both houses will have to
stick cn the job seme time after Wed
nesday and get down to hard-pan busi
ness. The report is abroad, on good
authority, that Governor Dorsey has
made up his mind about the extra ses-|
sion, if anything like either of the
above possibilities occurs and that he
is prepared to issue that call the min
ute the present appropriations bill is
passed. That this notice will be shot
right into both branches before a sine
die adjournment, and that the notice'
will order the assembly to come back
on the job Thursday morning Is said
now to be a positive fact.
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, ■INGTOFORM
AUTONIOBILECLUB
IN THISCOUNTY
W. G. Keen, representing the Geor
gia State Automobile association, ar
rived in this city today for the purpose
of co-operating with the motorists and
good roads advocates of Americus and
Sumter county, with a view of forming
an automobile club, which will have
its headquarters in Americus.
One of the first objects of the club
will be to affiliate with the Georgia
State Automobile association .which
is composed of the individual cax
owners, and others who are interest
ed in the movement for better high
ways, in carrying out the program for
which it was organized, particularly
supporting the state highway depart
ment.
Other planks in the platform of the
state association are as follows:
Prevention of the passage of legisla
tion which is not to the best interest
<U the motorists.
The elimination of reckless driving
and protection to all users of the'
highways.
The posting of a uniform system of
road signs throughout the state upon
all bad grade crossings, dangerous
curves and cross-roads, whereby the
numerous accidents which are occur
ring annually from lack of warning
may be averted.
In order that a greater amount of
co-operation may be secured and a
larger amount of interest manifested
by the general public in the expendi
ture of all money to be spent under
the federal aid road act, jointly with
the various cdlinties in the state, and
to secure our reads constructed under
the supervision of a competent engi
neer and staff, legislation has been in
troduced by the association to secure
state aid for the construction of our
main market highways, also a joint
county bond issue whereby any num
ber of counties may co-operate in
constructing any particular highway.
State supervision and the enforce
ment of the general traffic laws.
The state association when com
pleted, will have thorough representa
tion in each and every county of the
state, and will be a controlling facjjfr
looking to the efficiency of gerfe>i’l
road construction throughout GeoW,
gia.
The local clubs will be affiliated
with the Georgia State Automobile as
sociation and the American Automo
bile association.
This is the day of the automobile
club, and like the proverbial mush
room, motoring organizations have
sprung into being throughout the
; United States. No first class state,
. county, city, town or hamlet is com
plete without one.
Motorists are learning that if they
j want fair and reasonable legislation,
better roads, and good sign-postins
( systems, they must “get together" and
’ provide them, and an automobile club
now to be efficient is a business insti
tution, and these business institutions
are becoming more in the majority and
I less in the minority. The purely so
cial automobile club for owners is be
ing supplanted by the "service” or
ganization, particularly in the local
ities where large clubs abound and
provide the recreation and social sea
, tures desired, leaving the automobile
I club to e,o about its business of "doing
things.”
With, perhaps, not a single excep
. tion there is no motoring organization
in America today which is so support
!ed by the motor car owners in its
I community as its power for good de
mands. It is motor club dues which
stick tightest to the bottom of the
pocket of the average automobilist—
not because he is consciously a “piker”
but because he does not stop to think
that the club in his city or state needs
his individual support.
A working example of this is found
in the Automobile Club ofSouthern
California. This organization stands
ns one of the foremost “service” clubs
In America today, while it also has the
distinction of being the pioneer of its
type of organizations.
The consideration of a branch office
uid a touring bure.-’-u in this locality
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