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PAGE TWO 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. Subscription Rates. Daily and Sunday, Five Dollara a Year (in advance). Weekly, One Dollar a year (in ad vance). Member of The Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively antitied to the use for republication of all news credited to It or not otherwise aredited In this paper, and alao the lo a&l news published herein. 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 1 """" ■ 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. 1 Don’t Throw Awav i Your old Automobile Tires and Tubes. Bring them to us for repairs. I Our Steam Vulcanizing I Plant is at your service. Every job we turn out is completed by an expert ! workman. Time will demonstrate the wisdom of bringing your vulcanizing to us. G. A. & W. G. TURPIN amerudT fish & Oyster Market WHOLESALE and RETAIL John Nita & Co., Proprietors. Fresh Spanish Mackerel, Freeh A'ater and Salt Water Trout, Red Snap pers, Red Bass, Sheep-head and all 1 kinds of Bottom Fish. Shrimps, Crabs and Oysters and Fish Rolls. QUICK DELIVERY TELEPHONE 778 216 West Forsyth Stree* | R. E. 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