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THE TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 1879.
THK TIMES-RECORDER COMPANY,
(Incorporated .j
Publisher.
Published every afternoon, except
laturday, every Sunday morning, and
M a Weekly (every Thursday).
Entered as second class matter at
oatofflee at Americus, Ga., under act
' March 3, 1879.
FRANC MANGUM,
Editor and Manager.
L. H. KIMBROUGH,
Assistant Business Manager.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR:
City of Americus
Sumter County
Webster County
<a!lroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District.
U. S. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, Georgia, January 25, 191*.
PARAGFAPHICALUf SPEAKING li
f |
Even a long-headed woman may he
short-skirted.
Vegetarians only sit back and grin
on these meatless days.
It there weren’t so many senseless
days, we’d feel better about it.
A round of drinks will generally <
■zake a man go round —and round. i
At. that, we would rather see a wo
man carry a knitting bag than a ;
swagger stick.
«. t
Washington ought to be pretty well
heated by the hot doings in the Sen- <
ate these days. 1
t
According to the ex-Czar of Rus- }
sia, he is still a prisoner. And he j
ought to know. i
(
“Woman is a world-power,” says
the Griffin News and Sun. She is also • j
a world-beater somtimes. ,
Most marital relations are pleasant, (
but no man wants his in-laws spending ,
half their time at his house.
The fuel administrators only admin-' ?
ister when they can, which doesn't
seem to be very often or much.
Along about now is the time when .
those bedroom slippers given you for
Christmas login to come to pieces. (
The chairman of the Republican par-'
ty has quit to enter war work. He
should be well nerved for the latter.
The fellow who usually looks like
he hasn’t got enough sense to get out
of the rain is geenrally a lailroad or
bank president who makes about $30,-
00(i a year.
We certainly wish there was some
thjng to talk about besides the war,
the weather, the short skirts, the high
price of eats, the scarcity of eggs, and
the neighbors.
The Senate is moving slowly toward
expelling Senator LaFollette. That is
one reason why the people of Geor
gia are going to pass on the case of
Senator Hardwick themselves.
Senator Chamberlain might also
add, when saying that “there is in
efficiency in every branch and every
department of the United States gov
ernment” that the most conspicuous
Instance is in his own senate, because
of its dilatory tactics in allowing
Follette to remain a member.
Acording to the Dalton g
friend, Emetf/'"-’-'' x ICture
HENFANDEZ in
“UP 0.4 DOWN"
Five Acts, and
“An In! rrupfcd Ho igymoun” g
Triangle Komedy ||
Matinee, 6 and lie.
Night, 11 and 17c.
CHANGED CONDITIONS.
Regulation of food prices. entailing
a natural reduction in profits, may
have the effect of diminishing the num
ber of grocery stores.
In recent years the grocery store
has sprouted like the proverbial bay
tree.
Without any reflection on the many
merchants of experience and ability,
with whom the selling of groceries
is really a trade, it is none the less j
true that there has developed in re-,’
cent years a spread of the grocery.
I
business more than circumstances
justified.
Scores of men all over the state and i
the South have opened up grocery
I stores, literally because they had noth
■ ing else to do, in the hope that by
[ catering to a little community trade
! they could realize at least a living on
a small investment Usually these
stores are carried by the wholesaler.!
thus requiring comparatively little
cash to begin business.
Discussing this very subject the
Griffin News and Sun says:
“There is scarcely a town in the en. ■
tire country that could not be
quately supplied by half the num-,
her of retail establishments it now
supports. The retailer, while his
business is a community necessity, is 1
not to be considered in any sense a
producer, and now when production
is the one paramount consideration
in the nation, the ranks should be
thinned as much as the welfare of the
public will admit. The main point
we wish to make is that the retailer
who is making a bare living in a town ■
already over crowded with similar
establishments could show hig patriot
ism in no better manner than by clos
ing out his business and joining the
ranks of the producers. The latter
need him and his fellows in business'
would welcome his desertion from
their ranks.’’
Because these little stores often
operated as a convenience, many
housewives, whose larger accounts
were placed with the stores downtown,l
have traded casually with them. They!
also get some floating business, and :
maintain a few accounts on a weekly'
oi monthly basis. Their expenses
were light, and small profits were
possible. But the high cost of gro-!
ceries, together with the regulation
in (price, which makes profiteering'
e> en on a small scale impossible, these'
little fellows are now being crowded|
against the wall. Many of them
could be broken on the rack, if the
wholesaler only took occasion to shut
down on them.
■War conditions will revolutionize
the-grocery business. The selling of j
foodstuffs will be put on a definite,'
established basis, and will remain
there even when the war is over. These
new conditions are not auspicious for
the small stores, and if’ it becomes
necessary ultimately for the govern
ment to eliminate the non-essential
businesses the small grocery stores
wil] be among the first to go.
Scnicbody wants to know why we
wrote an -mire column of paragraphs
about short skirts the other day. Why,
just tc show that we couid do it, of
course, and incidentally. »o fill the
space.
THE SHORTEST OF MONTHS.
There will be only nineteen business
days in February, making it the short
est of months.
With four Sundays, four heatlesa
Mondays (which are now virtually
holidays, even more so than Sundays),
and the birthdays of George Washing
ton and Abraham Lincoln, only nine
teen days will remain for the conduct
ot business in its ordinary and regu
lar channels.
Thus Is the calendar being shorten
ed. the changes being even more radi
cal than those inaugurated by Julius
Caesar.
? • ’ . *cn living in the
| SATURDA be
GAIL KANE in
I I “Southern Pride”
b | and Ben Wilson in
Chapter 2 of
“Mystery Ship”
Matinee, 6 and lie.
Nig lit, 11 and 17c.
fHE AMERICUS TlMt-S-RECORDER.
AN ASININE SENATOR.
No one has ever imagined that the
various departmeats of the United
States government, whether those en
gaged exclusively in the management
of the war or those conducting the
other affairs of state, were operating
on a basis of 100 per cent efficiency.
Governmental management is no
toriously charcterized by mingles and
blunders, by waste, by extravagance,
• by stupidity sometimes, and by errors
! of omission and commission.'
I
( President Wilson himself has made
I
mistakes, not having the faculty of
infallibility. Every bureau head has
■ made them, clerks have made them —
and all will continue to make them.
Just so they do not make the same
mistake twice, all will fare well.
So easy it is to find fault, to lo
cate mistakes, to point out instances
of bad judgment to criticize. Senator
; Chamberlain is not doing any more
than any other member of Congress
| could do, with the same facts accessi
ble to him.
But the most deplorable feature is
i that in so doing Senator Chamber
i lain is also discrediting our chosen
■ leader. He is “showing up” the presi
j dent, the one man to whom all the
world looks as the real leader in this
’ war of Democracy versus Autocracy.
M ilson is trusted across the Atlantic,
.ty all save the Germans. To belittle
him is to belittle the nation, and to
I
, hinder the nation at war.
i Moreover, what do you think the
, German papers did when they received
, the cabled statement that Senator
j Chamberlain, the chairman of the Sen
ate Military Committee, had announc
ed that our military system “had
broken down,” and that we were ut
, terly incompetent to do an adequate
I part in the struggle. It we were edit-
. ing a German newspaper, we would
. spread a seven-column headline over
I the item, and perhaps continue the
heading on the second page.
Senator Chamberlain's conduct ap
i pears to us in the aggregate, to be
j genuinely asinine.
I If womens’ tongues were as short
as their skirts there'd be less scandal.
THE WEEVIL IN WINTER.
If the boll weevil has survived the
I terrible weather of the last six weeks,
there is probably nothing left on earth,
j or under earth, nor in the elements
, above, that will kill him.
Not since the boll weevil began his
disastrous march across Georgia has
this state experienced such privations
from the weather. The cold has been
i more severe and prolonged that the
South is accustomed to. It has meant
acute suffering, even death, to humans.
Last year it was believed that the
i cold did much toward checking the
“’spread and the multiplication of the
| weevil. That being true, how much
I, more effective has been the work of
’ the weather this year.
If it is possible for the weevil to
go through the wniter unharmed and
• I still able to put in a good summer’s
’ devilment, there is no use to seek to
•, retard his onward march of triumph,
t The weevil that emerges from the con
s flict with days of freezing and ice and
wind and snow is too tough to suc
cumb to anything else. Not even a
blast from a great German gun would
scare him, much less inflict death
5 and damnation.
If it develops that the weather has
reduced the number of weevils and
J slain them in their hibernating places,
< at least one way of ridding the earth
, of them will have been discovered.
. Henceforth, in the good old summer
- time, instead of expending effort with
t poisonous powders and fluids, just
. let the farmers employ a portable re
frigerating plant and squirt icy gusts
. on the yests, even as they partake of
. the tender young cotton bolls.
i Freeze ’em out—-fight along that
line, even if it takes ah summer!
We are still waiting for Albany to
us on securing the avia
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to from RO to 75 poundsjeach: one wagt
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Every job we turn out is
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Time will demonstrate
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your vulcanizing to us.
G. A. & W. G.
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AMERICUS
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3 1-2 miles of Ameri
cus, 300 acres cleared,
no stumps, 5 room
house, running water,
sacrifice price
S2O AN ACRE
850 ACRES
3 miles of R. R. town.
Land lies well, 600
acres cleared, 5 tenant
houses, rent 10 bales
cotton. Price
sl4 AN ACRE.
, 5 ROOM HOUSE
Jackson Ave., corner
lot, nice location
$2,000
6"ROOM HOUSE
large lot, desirable loca
tion, $4,5Q0 —cheap at
$6,000.
7 ROOM HOUSE
good barns, cribs, 7
acres, on one of the
best streets, just the
place for an industrious
man to make a good
living on.
$13.50 Per Acre
970 acres, 400 cleared, run
ning water, 10 miles R.
R., estimated 400,000 feet
extra choice L. L. pine saw
timber and 300,000 feet of
2nd growth. Saw and shin
gle mill already installed
on this tract. Land, tim
ber and equipment only
$13.50 per acre, one-fourth
cash.
6-room house, Lee street,
large lot, $3,000.
6-room house, large lot,
135x198, Elm ave., $2,000.
Whydelaymaking your
real estate investments?
Indications are you will
pay more later on. Call in
and let’s if we can’t
trade on sou.ething.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1918.