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City of Americus.
Sumter County.
Webster County.
Railroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional Dustrict.
C. S. Court, Southern District of
;» Georgia.
Americus, Ga., August 14, 191"
There are some fellows up there in
Washington who have the art of find
ing things to tax down to a fine point.
Germany first admits and then denies
that the violation of Belgian neutrality
was a ‘strategic necessity,” but the
world has been sufficiently informed
as to the facts in the case to make any
further explanation by the Teutons
unnecessary.
Kernesky is said to be physically
weak, but judging from his operations
since assuming general charge of
things in the land where Nicholas
formelry ruled with absolute power,
the deficiency has not affected his ac
tivities to any great extent.
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Michaelis, the new German chan
cellor, rises to remark that there will
never be another war. His prophecy
may be fulfilled, but there is one
thing fairly certain; there will never
be another war in which Germany fig
ures as one of the belligerents.
And now comes the sensational
news that a professional burglar oc
cupied a seat in the Russian Duma
fr two years. If we wanted to be
real nasty about it, we might say
something about representative bodies
on this side of the Atlantic, but what's
the use of making invidious compar
isons?
The sudden and not entirely regret
table news of the death of Salazar, the
Mexican bandit chieftain, indicates that
one less element of strife exists in the
revolution-torn republic to the south
ol us Tidings of the passing of his
co-partner Villa would be conductive
to considerable rejoicing on this side
of the line
Quitman is having a little touch of
civic indigestion, complications having
arisen over the demand by the W. C. T.
L to close up certain business estab
lishments on Sunday. The business
men countered by stopping the sale of
every commodity on Sunday and even
the telephone exchange may be closed.
Another case in which the extremist
stirs up an undesirable “rookus.”
They are passing out some pretty
salty remarks concerning our old
friend Cole Blease, he of pardon fame,
and some of his critics are even going
far as to put him in the same cate
gory with Thomas Wilhelm Hardwick
We have never had any great and con
suming affection for the ex-governor o!
South Carolinia, but classing him with
Tom Billy is ‘‘cruel and unusual treat
meet.”
OUR PART IN THE FIGHT.
A few days ago a special committee
from the Georgia legislature made a
trip to Thomasville and Valdosta for
the purpose of making a personal in
vestigation of the operations being
carried on at the experiment stations
there by the experts who have charge
of the w r ork of making cotton culture
more efficient.
The State Board of Entomology, un
der authority of which the experiment
stations are conducted, has for many
I years continued its scientific investiga-
I tions along the lines indicated and
' when the legislative committee had
thoroughly inspected the two stations
£in South Georgia, there existed no
doubt in their minds of its members as 1
to the efficacy of the work accom-j
plished. The report made by the
committee indicates its entire satisfac-'
tion and pays a glowing tribute to the'
practical methods that have been util-'
ized in rendering such valuable ser-'
’ vice to cotton farmers in Georgia.
While the experiments at these sta
tions have resulted in enormous good
to the planters of this state, it is'
! nevertheless true that the results ac-'
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i complished at Thomasville and Vai
[ dosta have been made possible by ex-'
I periments in cotton propagation and
development in Sumter county. Prob
! ably on a comparative few persons
know that for the past 8 years experi
ments have been conducted by the
State Board of Entomology on the
farms of Senator M. B. Council in this.
county. There has been no active pu£>- j
licity campaign on the subject, but the .
tests have steadily progressed and f
many invaluable results have been
accomplished.
i ‘‘Lewis 63,” a variety of cotton that
is becoming popular throughout the.
boll weevil territory, was developed in
the experiment farms in Sumter coun-j
ty, while other excellent varieties have j
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’ also been propagated until they have
'reached their present stage of perfec-
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tion.
I Sumter county farmers may obtain,
valuable assistance in cotton culturej
’by giving a little more attention to
the experimentation work going on at'
our very door and with the weevil in
festation threatening more serious
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consequences each year, the benefits
accruing from such development work
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cannot be overestimated
THE WOMEN HELPING.
In other wars it may have been that
| the work of women was not great—al-
I I though Southern women who remem
' ; ber the days of the War Between the
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'(States know that in that conflict it
was great indeed—but in this world
war there seems no limit, in either
amount or variety, to the work direct-
Jlj connected with the war which wo
imen may do, and much of which they
'must do It is not expected that any
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(American women will follow the ex
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ample of their Russian sisters and
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.form a “Command of Death” to charge
s
and die on the battlefield, but there is
s
so much more in the war than charg
ing and dying that the hands of
thousands of women, elsewhere than
on the field of battle, may be busy for
? the cause of democracy.
t This is byway of preface to com-
J mending the formation of the Sa van-
J nah Unit of the Women’s Committee of
5 1 the Georgia Division of the Council of
; 1 National Defense. There is a vast
; (amount of work for the nation’s de
j tense which may well fall to the lot of
(American women to do, and which can
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f'be well done by them. Its range is
J very wide, going all the way from ac
. 'trial nursing of wounded soldiers to
.' the rolling of bandages in the peace and
3 'quiet of the American home, from the
tj planting of gardens to the collecting
i'of magazines and tobacco to make the
.' life of the soldier in France more
t'pleasant. Much work for the nation
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nas been done by Savannah women
since the beginning of American par- j
y tleipation in the war, and the daily
d,amount of it may be expected to in
crease until the day of victory dawns.
g| It may be that some men have the'
-.idea that American women who do any
t sort of war work or defense work or
i-1 relief work do it as if nothing was re-
of them but as if they were
h working as a favor to Uncle Sam. No
t 'savannah man should have any such
opinion of the motive which is behind
the war work Savannah women are
uoing or will do. These women do
3 not think they have the full right to
1 stand on the outside of things and pay
" no attention to the war and do nothing
’ to help bring victory to their nation;
’ not at all. They know there is much
which women can do and which
3 therefore they ought to do—which it is.
? their duty to do.
If an American woman can do work
■ which will release a man for more
- strenuous war work, if she can do
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something which otherwise would not
• be done to soothe a wounded soldier or
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1 make the fighting man's trench life 1
pleasanter, it is not alone her privilege
but her absolute duty to do it. Now,-
(there is a great number of women, noj
doubt, who are anxious to work for!
(the cause of the nation but who do not;
.know just how and when to take hold.,
pt is understood that one object of the 1
I formation of the Savannah Unit is to
.systematize the work women may
Iso as to get the very best results in
(both quantity and quality by bringing j
I together the women who are willing to 1
I work and the work that should
. done. When the story of America’s
.part in the great war is fully told the
i women of America will not be astiam
|Cd of their share in it.—Savannah
Morning News.
TO SUPPRESS PROFITING.
The announcement from Washington
'that the American public will be pre
'tected against profiteering and that the
(Allies will get their war supplies at
'the same prices as the United States is
'important, and it is to be hoped that it
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is true.
I Brice levels generally are far above j
the point of reasonable profits and they
J indicate that the spirit of grab is
‘more pronounced in the United States
'than the spirit of self-sacrifice, which
j is the spirit that must win victory for
,'us if we win at all.
It would profit us very little if every
mother’s son of us should get as rich
as Croesus if we lost the war, for the
J victors would tq,ke every cent of it
J away from us.
I When Washington announces that
(the “prices now charged for materials
.'necessary to the industrial life of the
.'nation are out of proportion to the
. cost of production,” it means that we
are deluding ourselves with the notion
that our wealth is piling up.
Such profits are more imaginary
than real. They are not the character
: of increasement. that sticks, but such
. profits do hamper industry, confound
labor and inflict upon us a train of
; prblems and difficulties that are well
; nigh baffling.
I j Every family in this country that
■ must subsist upon moderate incomes
J has learned that price levels are so
.'high that instead of having “war pros-
• pirity” it is increasingly difficult to
■'procure adequate food, clothing and
• 'fuel.
I' Income increases do not keep pace
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• j with price increases, but taxes make
? increasing drafts upon the incomes.
| The Government in its war upon
f profiteering ought to know that it must
i a t resolutely and promptly, otherwise
t '
r with the waning of the summer the
'country must approach difficulties that
-.will greatly embarrass it later on
Especially will this prove true in
f the matter of food and fuel, for the
( great labor centers will have some
t serious winter problems to solve at
-(best, and this problem will be easy or
according as the passion for
i profiteering is kept in leash.
; j W’ith the food control law in opera-
- tion, the food question ought not to be
) difficult. It will depend upon the
1 measures of efficiency Mr. Hoover and
> his assistants show, but if the indus
; trial activities of the country are to be
> hampered by excessive prices of raw
■ materials and fuel, even food control
J will not safeguard the well being of
i labor.
| The government and the people must
I sense the vital fact that none of our
'national problems is simple, anl
those who see in the national crisis
■ only an era of profiteering must have
it hammered into their heads that war
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is not in reality an occasion for any
-'thing but an exhibition of the highest
> devotion and a spirit of sacrifice that
) holds the preservation of liberty as a
i cause above and beyond all other con
-1 riderations. —Houston (Tex.) Post.
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
ERMANY PLANNED TO ATTACK US
ERMANY PLANNED TO ATTACK US
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> It will be readily conceded that
* James W. Gerard, during the four
years he spent in Germany as ambas
sador of the United States, had vastly
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‘better opportunities to inform himself
as to what was going on and what
would be the future attitude of Germ
any toward this country than the av
erage man.
And he has written the story of
those four years in order, he says, to
arouse the American people to a
sense of the gravity of the situation.
; He wisely warns us that the might
of Germany is not yet broken, and that
(there is much for this country to do.
But perhaps the most impressive fea
ture of the introduction to his book is
| the statement that, in his opinion, “we
are not only justly in the war, but
'prudently in the war.”
It is a point which cannot be empha
sized too frequently. We are pledged
to the high purpose of ridding the
. world of a nation of baby-killers and
'pirates; we are committed to the pro
' position of making the world safe for
democracy. We owe it to England for
(the protection her fleet has given us
and to France for the aid she gave us
i-i winning our independence to sup
pert them in their hour of need.
utß we must not lose sight of the
fact that we are in this war to save
ourselves from the deadly, definite and
unwavering purpose of the Prussians
to fall upon us and destroy us.
So it is not without significance
when a man of Mr. Gerard’s character
says:
“If we had stayed out and the
war had been drawn or won by
I Germany, WE WOULD HAVE
BEEN ATTACKED —and while
Europe stood grinning by—not dir
ectly at first, but through an at
tack on some Central or South
American state to which it would
be at least as difficult for us to
send troops as for Germany. And
what if this powerful nation (Ger
many), vowed to war, were once
firmly established in South or
Central America? What of our
boasted isolation then?
’ What indeed!
' Every intelligent man knows more
’ or less clearly that Germany meditat.
: ed this attack upon us. The plans for
l an invasion of this country were
drawn up by the German general staff.
Time after time Germany made at
tempts to secure a foothold in this
1 hemisphere, in defiance of the Monroe
1 Doctrine. She tried it in Venezuela
L when Roosevelt was President. She
1 was in the very act of attempting it at
Haiti when the present w'ar broke out
■in Europe, and had it not been for
’ the turn of affairs abroad we would to
’.day be at war with Germany, single
'handed and alone
’ These things are well known, but
'.naturally Germany’s designs are much
better known to Mr. Gerard than to
any other American citizen. He tells
! j us that he is compelled “to hold for
fiture disclosure many things which
J now would perhaps increase bitter
: ness.”
Just how far Germany has gone in
! |her infamous designs upon us we will
- not know until after the war, but we
have it upon the word of the American
1 ambassador to Berlin that we “would
: have been attacked.”
: What more should we wish to know ?
I In tlje face of which fact there must
* i be no tolerance of the slacker and the
pacifist.—Macon News.
Let’s hope that the Dixie Highway
* officials will not make their tour of
II inspection of the Western Division un
(til the Sumter county link has been
; put into better shape than at present.
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(Considerable sulphurous conversation
I will be avoided if the county cominis-
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. sioners are given time to get the road
tit: fair condition. ,
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The Old Standard Grove’s Tasteles*
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a
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AMERICUS CAMP, 202, WOODMEN
OF THE WORLD.
Meets every Wednesday night in
Fraternal Hall, Lamar street All vis
iting Sovereigns invited to meet with
us. STEPHEN PACE. C. C.-
NAT LeMASTER, Clerk.
F. and A. M.
fl AMERICUS LODGH
F. & A. M., meets ev
ery second and
fourth Friday night
* v. at 7 o’clock.
FRANK J. PAYNE, W. M.
J. RESCOE PARKER, Sec’y.
* M. B. COUNCIL
LODGE F. and A. M.
meet ® every First and
Third Friday nights.
J Visiting brothers are
invited to attend.
DR. J. R. STATHAM, W. M.
NAT LeMASTER. Secretary.
WASHINGTON CAMP, NO. 14,
P. O. S. OF A.
Meets every first and third Monday
nights in P. O. S. of A. Hall, No. 21»
Lamar St. All members in good stand
ing invited to attend. Beneficiary certi
ficates from $250.00 to $2,000.00 issued
to members of this camp.
S. A. JENNINGS, Pres’t
O. D. REESE, Recd’g. Sec’y.
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Trains Arrive.
From Chicago, via
Columbus * 12:15 a m
From Columbus *12:30 p m
From Columbus 1 7:15 p m
From Atlanta and Macon. .* 5:29 a m
From Macon * 2:11 p m
From Macon * 7:85 p m
From Albany * 6:49 a D>
From Montgomery and
Albany *.2.11 p m
From Montgomery and
Albany *10:89 p m
From Jacksonville, via
Albany * 8:49 a m
Trains Depart
For Chicago, via Columbus * 8:40 a m
For Columbus ! 7:00 a m
For Columbus * 8:00 p m
For Macon and Atlanta ...* 6:40.a m
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For Montgomery and
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For Montgomery and
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For Jacksonville, via
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•Daily ! Except Sunday.
adv GEO. ANDERSON, Agent.
Seaboard Air Line
Ibe Progressive Railway ol the SonW
Leave Americus for Cordele. Ro
chelle, Abbeville, Helena, Lyons, Col
lins, Savannah, Columbia, Richmond,
Portsmouth and points East and South
12:31 p m.
2:30 a m
Leave Americus for Cordele, Abbe
ville, Helena and intermediate points
5:11 p. m.
Leave Americus for Richland, At
lanta, Birmingham, Hurtsboro, Mont
gomery and points West and Northwest
3:08 p. in.
Leave Americus for Richland. Col
umbus, Dawson, Albany and interme
diate points
19:00 a m
Seaboard Buffet Parlor Sleeping Car
on Trains 13 and 14 arriving Americus
from Savannah 11:25 p. m., and leav
ing Americue for Savannah 2:30 a. m.
Sleeping car leaving for Savannah at
2:30 a. m.. will be open for passengers
at 11:40 p. m.
For further information apply to H.
P, Everett, Local Agent, Americus.
Ga.; C. W. Small, Diy. Paas. Agmt,
Savannah. Ga.; C- R An, G. p. a.,
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HOGS! HOGS!! HOGS!!!
Attention Farmers:—The Government Experts say “Food 1
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'
TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1917