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THE TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 187».
yHW TIMES-RECORDER COMPANY,
(Incorporated.)
Publisher. ,
Published every arternoon, except
Saturday, every Sunday morning, and
M a Weekly (every Thursday).
Entered as second class matter at
'ostofflee at Americus, Ga., under act
t 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
Railroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District.
U. S. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, Georgia, January 28, 1918.
PARAGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING
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How do you like Garfielding?
The shortest skirts are never seen.
Sleepless nights will be next, we
suppose.
Let us hope that every day won’t
be Monday by and by.
No man is ever as good as his wife
thinks he is, nor as bad.
The days are growing longer, but
the skirts are not keeping step.
The ladies who reduce their waist
lines now will be strictly patriotic.
War bread doesn’t worry us. We’ve
always contended that cracklin’ bread
was better than fruit cake.
However, if a woman wasn’t carry
ing a knitting bag she’d be doing
something else equally as foolish.
If some of the women who wear
short skirts knew how this custom has
affected the general efficiency of the
men they would quit it.
The ladies might as well stop writ
ing us those anonymous letters.
We’re not giong to print any more of
them —not even the nice ones!
Now that Col. Roosevelt ig in Wash
ington, we may expect him at any
minute to convene himself in special
ssesion and pass a lot of new laws.
Somebody has asked us to say
whether or not a man who pays ali
mony is still married, but we decline.
This isn’t part of the food administra
tion’s job.
The LaGrange Reporter says that
Senator Hardwick “is making an au
tomatic jumping jack of himself.” If
you’ll add one word to three letters to
the jack part, we’ll agree with you.
It isn’t every man that has a wife
who can cook good, old-fashioned egg
bread. This class of cooks are going
to be in demand while combination
sales of wheat flour and corn meal
continue.
With every pound of flour that is
sold in Americus hereafter a pound
o'i meal must be purchased. Now ”-e
suppose that old gag “cornbread
scratches my throat” will be brought
t' the front, but it won’t get the growl
erg anything.
A good many people have reached
the conclusion that Dr. Garfield is
worth every penny of the dollar a
year that the government nays him.—
Americus Times-Recorder. He is that.
‘A man who is big eno ?h to make ’em
kick and scowl like Garfield has is no
small man We have more faith in the
dollar s* . yoar vlr” than. ny have in
all the politicians loose in Washing-!
ton.—Dalton Citizen.
THE ONLY KNOCKER.
Murphy Candler is reported to
have taken a trip to Washington
to see the President about Franc
Mangum and his W. J. Harris fool
ishness that recently failed to
create a ripple on Georgia’s polit
ical lagoon. It is contended by
some that Mangum was really not
responsible for that little fiasco
with which he was nominally
identified. If this is true, he is
not the proper person upon whom
public ridicule should be heaped,
as is being done. If he will ex
pose the fellow who slipped that
trick over on him he will be let
off this time provided he will
promise to guard against future
indiscretions.
Os all the newspapers in Georgia,
the Sparta Ishmaelite is the first and
only one to attempt to discredit The
Times-Recorder’s poll of the senatorial;
situation.
Even the newspapers which replied
favorably to Mr. Hardwick had to ad
mit that the poll was fair and square.
The fact that it was the signed,
deliberate opinions of responsible
newspaper men in every section of the
state, printed exactly as they wrote it,
made the poll invulnerable to political
attack.
The ringsters in Atlanta simply
couldn’t do anything with it. The
more they analyzed it, the more con
vincingly they learned, to their in
tense discofiture, that it overwhelm
ingly endorsed W. J. Harris as the
one and logical candidate to oppose
Senator Hardwick.
We don’t mind telling the Sparta
Ishmaelite that this poll was under
taken by The Times-Recorder on its
own initiative, at its own expense,
without the knowledge or consent of
Mr. Harris or any other candidate,
and without consultation with any
politician, professional or otherwise.
We simply proved that small-town
dailies could engage in political en
prises and journalistic ’ ventures as
well a s the Atlanta papers.
The effect of the publication of the
poll was to eliminate Murphy Candler
from public consideration as a possi
ble candidate, and to make other so
called candidates look utterly insig
nificant and ridiculous.
If there was any trick “slipped
over on” us it was done through the
concerted effort of 121 Georgia edi
tors. the Sparta Ishmaelite among
them, an<j we must concede that it was
pretty quick and effective work on
their parts, since practically all of
telegrams were answered on the day
they were sent.
Ishmael, after whom the Sparta pa
per was named, was said to have been
“raised in the wilderness,” with few
opportunities for acquiring knowl
edge, and we must conclude that the
Ishmaelite was, too, if it continues to
profess such stupidity, shallowness,
and shortsightedness as it displays in
its remark as quoted above.
COAL PRODUCTION ON INCREASE.
While everything possible is being
done in this country to conserve the
nation’s fuel supply and facilitate the
delivery of coal at deep sea terminals
it is refreshing to note what other
nations are doing to augment the
world’s coal supply.
An increase of 7,000,000 tons in the
amount of coal mined in France this
‘year, compared with the output for
1916, a surplus that promises a speed
ing up of munition manufacturing and
emergency shipments to Italy, is set
forth in official bulletin received by
the Philadelphia Bourse from the
Faris Chamber of Commerce.
Most of the increase took place in
the southern regions within a short
rail haul of Italy. At the same time
the Pas de Calais fields, a part of
which are in German hands and the
remainder within range of enemy
guns, showed a considerable gain. By
the increase of mining production any
immediate call by the Allies on the
output of American mines is believed
tc- be postponed for the present.
In commenting on the year’s gain
in coal mipinj* the bulletin says:
spite of the difficulties caused
by the occupation by German troops'
fit ArlVllLlvlv/v/S ♦ 1
of several important centers, the pro-!
duction of French coal is continually
progressing. The monthly output rose ,
in a* year from 1,771,769 tons to
2,410,039 tons, or 36 per cent. . •
“Each of the coal fields has taken
its part in the common effort. The
Pas de Calais mines, some of which '
are in the hands of the enemy, have'
increased their output zy 50,000 tons.
a month since May 1. The Loire coal j
fields yielded about 400,000 tons more
than the previous year, in the Gard j
fields the increase exceeds 33 per,
cent. Tlie secondary fields of the
Tarn, Scone et loire, are also help-j
ing with the increase in the general'
output, which enables us to conclude.l
judging by figures for the last four i
. I
months, that the total yield for 1917:
will be over 28,000,000 tons, whereas
in 1916 it realized hardly more than
20,000,000 tons.”
CONGRATULATIONS.
From the Albany Herald.
The Americus Timesßccorder says:
“We 'are still waiting for Albany to
congratulate us on securing the avia
tion camp.”
Well, Albany does. We cannot im
agine that there is anybody in Albany
who would dream of hesitating for a
moment to sincerely congratulate
Americus on any piece of good fortune
or stroke of enterprise. We are sure!
that if Albany folks had dreamed
Americus was specially waiting for
their formal congratulations the mat
ter would have been attended to
promptly. We hasten to assur'; our
neighbor that Albany’s offense has
been altogether unintentional. If the
announcement that the aviation camp
was going to Americus had been
marked P. S. C. (Please Send Con
gratulations) proper action would
have been promptly taken. We do
not recall that Americus ever con
gratulated Albany on anything—not
even on being a neighbor to as de
lightful a city as the capital of Sum
ter.
Albany does congratulate Americus
on everything good that happens to
our thriving neighbor. We say that
seriously, earnestly, honestly. We
hope the paragraph which we quote 1
from our always appreciated contem
porary does not mean what one dis
posed to be captious might suspect,
viz., that Albany’s failure in con
gratulations was an intentional over
sight induced by envy. It was not.
Albany has never had occasion to be.
envious of her neighbor. We wish
her all good luck, even to the extent'
of hoping that some day she will be 1
as good a town as Albany That’s the *
very best wish we have in our wish
ery.
[ A COLUMN OF CLIPPINGS
Isn’t It Sweet Enough!
Thirty thousand pounds of sugar,
ishipped to Americus, will be dis-!
tributed among the people. It is to'
be hoped that the Times-Recorder
editor will be able to get enough to
further sweeten his disposition.—Co
. lumbus Enquirer-Sun.
Possibly So!
With an aviation camp Americus
may develop into something o f a high
flier after all.—Columbus Enquirer-
Sun.
Kentucky having voted for prohi
bition, the New York World says that
state must now find a new breakfast
food. Do you mean to say that
Kentuckians eat likker?—Americus
Times-Recorder. We dont pretend to
say what Kentuckians eat for break
fast, but we know what the old darkey
is alleged to have told the New Eng
lander who was visiting a Kentucky
home. The old darkey called the guest
and asked him what he would have
for breakfast, and the guest asked'
what he had. The servant told him
that there was only one kind of break
fast in Kentucky and that a mint juilp,
a steak and a dog, and when the vis
itor asked what the dog was for, the
darkey said it was to eat the steak.
Now you can figure it out to suit your
self.—Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
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MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1918.