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THE TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 1879.
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(Incorporated.)
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OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR:
City of Americus
Sumter County
Webster County
Eailroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District.
U. S. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, Georgia, January 29, 1918.
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| PARAGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING [
Temptations rarely come without
Invitation.
The snow covered north is yet to
experience the floods. •
A good many people are wondering
yhy Peary discovered the pole.
Wonder how big a hole in the ex
cess profits tax those workless days
wilF’make?
A good majiy men with money this
winter have found it at times of no
use to them.
Uncle Sam now understands that his ■
investments in Russia were of the wild
cat variety.
Wise men make blunders but they
serve as beacon lights to show them
what to avoid.
It must have been a mighty hot
spell on the other side of the equator '
to preserve tjie balance wiMi the cold
on this side.
At any rate w a show the breadth
of our sympathy when we pay more'
attention to the troublee of Austria
than to our own.
Some men display their patriotism J
by shouting because shouting is much ,
more conspicious and not half as in
convenient as as self-denial.
Senator Lodge says Roosvelt is “an
open book.” With plenty of illustra
tions and. all advertising space taken
In advance by the author!
When you are about to complain
of the coal stop and consider the fact
that Americus people know nothing
about zero except what they read.
“The fool and his money soon part
ed,” but there are many wise men
who never enjoy thie experience be
cause they have no money to lose.
Maybe that outbreak in Washington
was due to the fact that if congress- j
men should become ‘‘het up” they
would not need as much fuel to keep !
warm.
Like America, France is hunting
conspirators and traitors. But France
goes for the men higher up while we
give them notice to quit and then
bag the little fellows.
In his bargain offer for Christmas
the Kaiser proposed a return to- the
status quo-ante-bellum but we find that ■
his representatives, immediately af
ter, demanded Courland and a most
Important strip of Baltic territory
from Russia.
* The heads of the unions tell Secre
tary McAdoo that skilled mechanics
will continue to leave the railroad
shops so long as better wages are
offered elsewhere. Os course the labor
didn’t go with the tracks and the roll
ing stock but labor may be drafted.
CHINESE AGAINST HUNS.
China is now ready to take her part
in the international partnership
against German militarism, and "is
ready t 0 utilize her vast resources of
men and materials on behalf of the
Allies, according to His Excellency
Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo, China’s
Minister Plenipotentiary to the United
States, who addressed the New York
Chamber of Commerce at a recent
luncheon in honor of the Chinese Mili
tary Commission now touring thix
country.
The Chinese mission is mainly in
dustrial in nature, though its findings
will have direct and important bear
ing on China's participation in,the war,
and it is visiting various business .
centers throughout the country with
a view to gathering information on
modern methods of adaption in China.
Unlike most of the other missionte in
the procession that has been passing,
steadily through America since the
war began, the Chinese mission is not
interested in the flotation of loans;
it is devoting its time not only to the
study of munitions plants, but also
to American industrial methods. The
mission is headed by the lieutenant
general of the Chinese army, Mr. T.
T. Chiang, and includes Y. T. Ting,
T. F. Chin, L. C. Han, H. T. Cheng,
C K. Nein, and C. L. Chiang, several
of whom were educated in the United
States. One of the prinicpal objects
of the mission is to inspect the million
dollars’ worth of tools ordered from
an American firm in 1914 for use in
China.
After voicing the appreciation felt
by members of the commission for the
welcome they have received through
out the United States Dr. Koo went on
to say:
“We of China who have learned
through centuries of experience to
prize business honesty more than busi
ness prosperity cannot but admire the
commercial integrity of the American
business men, for we know and ap
preciate its value. And our own need
of rapid progress in the promotion of
China’s material welfare leads us to
emulate the high state of efficiency
in whoch all branches of your in
dustries have been found. If this
feeling of admiration and emulation
has raised one single indentical
thought in the minds of the Chinese
people it is the thought of promoting
more business relations between
Chin a and the United States.
“Equally distinct with the impres
pression Qf commercial integrity and
industrial efficiency of America is the
impression gained by the Chinese com
mission of the nation-wide co-opera
tion in the prosecution of war against
the Central Powers .... The
knowledge which they have gained
of the organization of gigantic war ma
chinery will enable China to speed up
her preparations for her active partici
pation of the war.
“We have already approximately
l(J0,000 Chinese in France principally,
and in Russia, Mesopotamia and South
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Africa doing the work of skilled me
chanics and masons, of carpenters and
bricklayers, of bridge builders and
trench diggers. Their readiness to
take up these kinds of important work
behind the firing line has made it pos
sible to release a large number of
British and French soldiers to do ac
tive duty on the battlefields, . . .
For China's purpose is to help win the
war.
“Although China has been the latest
member to join the great international
partnership, she realizes no lesfe fully
than all her associates in the war that
this is a conflict between true and
false principles; it is. a conflict to de
termine whether the principles of right
and justice and of humanity shall pre
vail, or whether we shall p. rmit the
false principles of brute force and of
insidious militarism to prevail. And
in realizing this China desres to con
trbute her full share of support to
the cause which is dear to us all and
is ready, if the necessary assistance
is ghen, to mobilize all of her military
resources, men, money and material
resources.
“Whatever differences there may be
on questions of domestic policy in
China, there is a striking unanimity
of opinion on the necessity of fight
ing this war out to victory. The peo-
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
WAR-TIME SHOES IN BRITAIN-
The secretary of the British war
office announces that the army coun
cil has issued a regulation known as
the war-time boots order, under which :
boot manufacturers must comply withj
the directions given from time to time
by the director of raw materials with!
a view to the production of war-time
boots and shoes. The boots must bej
made of classes of leathers, and to
specifications approved by the director
of raw materials, and the manufactur
er must stamp on the upper his regis
tered number and on the sole the
retail sale price, together with the
words “war time.”
It is further ordered that—
Priority must be given to the manu
facture of war-time boots over all
work other than government work.
The manufacturer must sell at the
wholesale price, approved by the di
rector of raw materials, but may al
low discounts of 5 per cent for cash
payment withing 30 days, or 6 per
Cent for cash payment in 7 days.
The manufacturer must keep account
of the cost of manufacture, available
for inspection by the director of raw
materials, to whom monthly returns
of the boots made and sold must be
rendered.
Boots rejected by factors, merchants,
or retail dealers must be retained by
the manufacturer until inspected by
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the director of raw materials, and re
leased for sale on terms approved by
him.
All disputes arising in connection
with the sale of the boots must be re
ferred to the director of raw materials
or persons nominated by htm, whose
decision shall be final.
It is an offense under the order—
To sell war-time boots at a retail
price other than that stamped on the
sole.
To maliciously alter or deface
the price, or the words “war-time”
borne on the sole of the boot.
To stamp the words “war-time” on
boots which do not comply with the
provisions of the order.
To use for any other purpose, with
out a permit from the director of raw
materials leather obtained for the
manufacture of war-time boots.
The prices of government war-time
boots have now been definitely fixed,
and it is understood that the retail sale
will begin during the present month
(January). The following examples
ct styles and prices per pair are giv
en: Men’s heavy shoes, $4.50; city
clerks’ shoes, $4.87 to 6.39; women's
stout shoes, $3.16 to $4.20; women’s
first-grade glace shoes, $3.83 to $596;
boys’ shoes, $2 upward; girls’ shoes?
$1.87 upward.
War-time boots wi’l be made in alf
sizes, and altogether there will be 39
different types. The heels of women’s'
shoes are not higher than 1 3-4 inches,■
but it is understood that war-time
shoes represent in all particulars the
manufacturers’ idea of what the public
desires.
Exhibitions of these boots have been
arranged by the war-time boot depart- ,
ment in 35 principle towns of the Unit
ed Kingdom for the purpose of en
| abling retailers to see them. The
i London exhibition, started Jan. 7thJ
will be open for three weeks.
The government department hopes
that there will not be an immediate
rush for these shoes, as it is no in
tended that people should buy them
as a war novelty.
The purchase of war-time boots and
shoes will not be compulsory, as one
third of the production o f the civilian
boots manufactured in England will
be in war-time boots, and the manu
facture of the other kinds will con
tinue. The object of the government
in making the war-tiine articles is to
supply good shoes at reasonable
prices.
pie of China are deeply conscious of
the profound sifnificance of this world
conflict, and with that conviction they
are determined to do their utmost to
secure a speedy ’'ictory. To the at
tainment of this goal the people of,
China will bend all their efforts, for '
they realize that the shortest road to
victory lies ip the utmost exertion on
the part of every associate in the war,
great and small, to do its best and to
do it quickly.”
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1918- '