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DAILY
FORTIETH TEAK.
ALLIES DON’T
DESIRE PEACE
SATSJfIOTSKY
RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER IN
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW DE
CLARES THEIR AIM NOW IS TO
( RUSH GERMANY.
“ BY JOSEPH SHAPLEN,
United Press Correspondent.
(Copyrighted, 1918, by the United
Press) -
PETROGRAD, Jan. 28.—(Delayed).
—Foreign Minister Leon Trotsky today
replies to the war aim declarations
of President Wilson gnd Premier Lloyd
George through tlie United Press.
“Academically speaking, President
Wilson’s latest peace formula seeks
to emet ours,” declared'the foreign
minister, in an interview in his of
fice at Smolny Institute. “But if ap
plied, in realty, it practically would
result similarly to the German diplo
macy.
‘ The central empires also original
ly accepted our formula in their de
claration of December 25, whereafter
in applying it practically, it resolved
itself into an annexationist imperalis
tic demand under the cover of a demo
cratic peace formula.
“Or, in other words, President Wil
son accepts in principle, the right of'
self determination, but refuses to go
as far as the right of all subject na
tions :.„:c3 everywhere to self determi
nation, not excluding complete in
dependency if desired. t
“Manifestly, President Wilson ad
dressed himself primarily to Austria-
Hungary. He is willing to concede
autonomy to the nationalities within
| the dual monarchy, but not their in
dependence, thus hoping to divorce
the dual monarchy from the central
alliance.
“Mr. Wilson’s latest formula was
actuated primarily by the important
fact that America does not seek terri
torial aggrandizement, but'is strength
ening preparation for her own im
perialism.
“The problem of the American mid
dle class is to obtain the weakening of
both imperialistic sides in the Euro
pean conflict in order to make Ameri
can capitalism the heir of European
capitalism. That is why the praise
bestowed upon us by Mr. Wilson,
when only two weeks before the
American and entente press called us
‘German agents, has not called out
from our side the enthusiastic re
sponse expected.
“At any rate, we believe if Mr. Wil
son and Mr. Lloyd George really
sought a quick peace through their
latest formulas, they should have
shown it by consenting to join in gen
eral peace negotiations.
“Only by such participation could
they have knocked out of the hands of
the German government the main
weapon by which it maintains internal
discipline.
“The refusal of the entente to join
in negotiations, enabled the German
government to show ips workmen that
America, France and England desire
Germany, and therefore Germany must I
fight to the’end.
“On the other hand, the participa
tion of all the warring lands in the
negotiations would have created
su<& a peace sentiment among the
peoples that it would have made im
possible a renewal of the -war after
the long welcomed armistice and would
Lave forced a negotiated, (jemocratic
peace.
“Any attempt to renew the war af
ter negotiations would undoubtedly re
sult in the overthrow of all the gov
— ernments, That is why the netente
JU fought shy of their invitation to join
the general peace negotiations. They
hope still to crush the central em
pires and they do not desire to sacri
fice their own imperalistic ambitions.”
At this point I asked: “But isnt
President Wilson’s latest formula, de
spite the refusal to join in general
negotiations, a step forward?”
“Inasmuch as the other warring
countries refused to poin in general
peace negotiatons, their formulas have
ne real value and are mere scraps of
paper,” replied Trotsky. "They may
be reduced practically to the fact that
their attitude gives the. German im
perialist carte bUnc to satisfy their
appetites at Russia’s expense and then
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AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
| WALTER SPOERMANN
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WALTEFUSPOERHAISN
Walter Spoermann, arrested near
Norfolk as a German spy, was taken
to Baltimore, where he is being de
tained. It was charged he tried to
blow up a powder magazine at Camp
Harrison, Va. He is said to be a
lieutenant in the German navy.
LEWS APPOINTED
Glt ENTOMOLOGIST
DELL KNOWN SUMTER 'COUNTY
MAN SUCCEEDS LEE WORSHAM—
( APT. COBB’S VOTE OVER LONG
DISTANCE ELECTED HIM.
A. C. Lewis, assistant state ento
dologist, was Friday afternoon elect
ed acting entomologist by the board to
succeed E. Lee Worsham, whose
registration field ten days ago became
effective yesterday.
Mr. Lewis has been connected with
the department for thirteen years, ten
years as assistant entomologist, and is
highly efficient and capable.
Every member of the board was
present at the meeting except Captain
John A. Cobb, of Americus, who was
ill at his home. However, he voted
by long distance telephone.
Mr. Lewis has been doing special
work in Sumter county for several
years.
MERCHANTS ARE
UNCERTAIN AS TO
CLOSING MONDAY
Americus merchants are undecided
what to do about closing on Monday.
Some of them will stay open; others
say they will close.
Dr. Hardman, the state administra
tor, having ruled one way, and Wash
ington having ruled another, the
storekeepers do not know what to do.
They believe they can stay open, if
they do not use any fuel, and some
propose to do that.
It is believed, however, that as a
general proposition the stores will be
closed. The banks will not open.
AMERICANS TAKEN
PRISONERS GIVEN'
CRUEL TREATMENT
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, Feb. 2. —American officers
at the' front have come into possession
of documents said to have been taken
from Germans opposite our positions,
and which deal with the treatment
to be accorded prisoners.
The- documents say that all prison
ers, including commissioned and non
commissioned officers, after being cap
tured. are to be kept in cages for four
days without food and compelled to
stand all the time. At the end of the
four-day period only small quantities
of food are to be given.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 3, 1918 '
SCHDDI MEET ID
TAKE PUCE HERE
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FIXES
DATE FOR NEXT HJGH SCHOOL
GATHERING—WILL BE HELD
APRIL 19 AND 20.
At a meeting of the executive com
mittee of the Third District High
School Association, which was held
in the office of the district president
at the Americus High school Friday
afternoon, it was decided to have the
annual high school meet on Friday
and Saturday, April 19 and 20.
The officers of the association at
tending the meeting were: C. M.
Hale, Americus; J. C. Dukes, superin
tendent of Dawson and Terrell coun
ty schools; J. C. Nicholson, superin
tendent of Cordele schools; and A. C.
♦
Weir, superintendent of Cuthbert
schools. Supt. J. E. Ricketson, Fitz
gerald, was the only committeeman
that could not attend.
The 1918 meet will be held at Daw*
son; and despite many adverse condi
tions prevailing, indications now are
that all of the seventeen ac
credited high schools of the district
will participate in the various events,
Iterary and athetic. A movement is
on foot among the officers of the asso;
elation to encourage the smaller
schools to take a general part, espe
cially in the matter of school exhibits.
The triangular debates, held under
the auspices of the association will
occur on the third Friday night in
marph. In these debates six school
will participate: Americus, Dawson,
Vienna, Ashburn, Cordele and Fitz
gerald.
NEW wiIGE
LIST ANNOUNCED
SEVERAL CHANGES HAVE BEEN
MADE—MEAL GOES UP FORTY
( ENTS A BUSHEL—PRICE TAKEN
OFF EGGS.
The Sumter County Food Adminis
tration announces a number of changes
in the price list published in today's
paper.
Most of these jevislons are raises in
pree, made necessary by the higher
market prices.
Meal, for instance, is increased from
two dollars to $2.40 a bushel.
The price of eggs is taken off alto
gether, although the food administra
tion recommends that no one pay
more than forty-five cents a dozen.
The prices for canned lard and
white meats are raised a little.
Prices on fish, oysters and shrimp
are announced today. These are the
same prices that have prevailed re
cently.
The grocers have been instructed to
strictly enforce the ruling which re
quires the purchase of an equal
amount of other cereal products with
every pound of flour.
MBS. J. C. MH DIED
HERE [BOSTDIII!
The death of Mrs. Martha Cornelia
Carter, the wife of Mr. J. Calvin Car
ter, occurred yesterday morning at
10-3 o o’clock at her home five miles
from Americus, after an illness of ten
days. She was 57 years of age, and
was born and reared in this county.
Mrs Carter was a devoted member
of Salem Methodist church and active
in the missoinary work of the church.
The surviving relatives, besides Mr.
Carter, are three daughters, Mrs. B. C.
Ray, of Arlington, and Misses Brownie
and Lallie Carter; seven sons, J. Wal
lace, W. F„ W. G,, of San Antonio; J.
C., of Marion, Ind.; Otis, Oscar and
Nathaniel, and a brother, E. B. Wal
lace, of Leslie.
The funeral will take place from
the residence Monday afternoon at
2:30 o'clock. Rev. J. A. Thomas, of Col
umbus, and Rev. J. W. Patterson of
ficiating.
The pallbearers will be Gordon
Heys, Charles Hogg, R. D. McNeil, J.
A. Pinkston, W. J. Josey and L. G.
Council. .Interment will be at Oak
“LIVEST LITTLE DAILY IN GEORGIA."
HEATLESS MDNDAI
ID BE ABANDONED
GARFIELD AND M’ADOO PRACTIC
ALLY DECIDE THAT TOMORROW
WILL WITNESS LAST OBSERV
ANCE OF ORDER.
WASHINGTON, February 2.
Abandonment of the heatless Monday
program after its enforcement next
Monday was predicted last night at
the close of a prolonged confenpnee
between Fuel Administrator Garfield
and Director General McAdoo.
A final decision was not reached,
and another confercnece will be held
Tuesday, but there wa severy indica
tionthat both officials, as well as
i-reident Wilson, who has been consult
ed, feel that the purpose sought can
be accomplished from now on by con
tinuance of preferential coal trans
portation and distribution and by
railroad embargoes now in force.
. At the conclusion of the conference
last night the following statement was
issued by Dr. Garfield and Mr. Mc-
Adoo:
“We have under consideration the
question of suspending after Monday
next the Monday closing ord
We have Rot reached a final con-
I elusion about it. We shall have an
other conference on Tuesday next,
when the results of the Monday clos
ings and of the railroad embargoes
up to that time can be fully consider
ed, and shall be able to make an an
nouncement next week as to whether
or not h suspension of the Monday
closing order may be made.”
■ PERMITS ID
BUT FLOUR ISSUED
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(INLY THOSE ACTIVELY ENGAGER
IN FARM WORK AND HAVING
SUPPLY OF MEAL AND CORN ARE
ALLOWED THEM.
Nearly 300 permits were given to
farmers and farm laborers yesterday
for the purchase of flour without the
purchase of other cereal products.
Whenever anyone in this class made
d certificate that he had plenty of
meal, corn of other grain products on
hand, he was allowed to buy a month’s
supply of flour. No such permits were
issued to persons not engaged exclus
ixely in farm work.
The food administrator’s office was
crowded all day with persons seeking
permits, as no grocer would sell un
til he was specifically authorized. Ah
other purchasers of flour are made to
buj pound for pound, an equal amount
of grits, meal, buckwheat flour, or
rice.
A remarkable fact was that the ma
jority of the negroes swore they did
not eat com bread.
It is believed that the food admin
istration is going to rescind this priv
ilege and arrange it so that the only
way a farmer can obtain flour without
buying an equal amount of other grain
products, will be by exchanging corn
for flour.
NIRS. GEORGE W. TVSON
15 HERO Jb EMILE
Mrs. George W. Tyson, of Ellaville,
a. woman highly esteemed in her com
munity, and well known in Americus,
died at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. W. H. Collins, at Ellaville yes
terday- afternoon. She was the widow
of the late George W. Tyson, and was
the sister of Mrs. W. W. Childers, of
Ellaville, and Col. Zack Childers, of
Americus. She is survived by her
daughters, Mrs. W. H. Collins and Mrs.
C. H. Wall, of Ellaville; Mrs. C. H.
Bowen; Mrs. W. J. Slappey, of La-
Crosse; Mrs R. A. Woodson, of White
Oak, Ala., and Mrs. Sam Norman, of
Moultrie, and by three sons, C. L. Ty
son, of Ellaville, and W. H. and J. N.
Tyson, of oDerun. The funeral will
take place today from the Baptist
church.
Grove cemetery.
Mrs. Carter was a most estimable
woman whose death is a source of
great sorrow throughout the county.
I). CIMtHGN FORBES
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Copyright, Underdood & Underwood.
The new president of the Navy
i League is W. Cameron Forbes, former
governor general of the Philippines,
who was selected president of the
league to succeed Colonel Robert M.
Thompson.
550.000 IS PAID
FDRSUMTERFARM
LAURENS COUNTY PLANTER NE
GOTIATES BIG TRANSACTION
HERE—BUYS BOND PLACE SEV
EN MILES OUT.
One of the largest real estate deals
in Sumter county in a long time was
closed yesterday by Messrs. P. B.
Williford, A. C. Crockett and E. J.
Witt, when they sold to Mr. Jeptha
Tringle, of Dublin, Laurens county,
the old C. B. Bond place, seven miles
south of Americus on the Dixie high
way, the farm containing 1,025 acres
for the sum of $50,000. Mr. Tringle is
new in possession and is one of the
best and widest known farmers in
Southeast Georgia and will be wel
comed to our community. The planta
tion sold to Mr. Tringle is perhaps
better known as the Raymond Orchard
place, one of the prettiest and most
valuable anywhere.
oil Industry 1
TAKEN OVER BY
FEDERAL ORDER
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 2.
The government today took fipal steps
toward taking over the fuel oil indus
try, and by* presidential proclamation
issued at noon, the entire' industry
was placed under direction of the fuel
administration. All dealers, therefore,
must procure licenses immediately.
Klei Taken by Bolsheviki.
PETROGRAD. Feb. 2.—The capture I
cf Kiev by Bolsheviki troops virtually
without resistance, insures the author
ity of the Bolsheviki in the Ukraine.
TEACHING GERMAN
SAVANNAH PUBLIC
SCHOOLS TO CEASE
SAVANNAH, Ga., Feb. I.—That the
teaching of German in the public
schools will be abolished in the near
future is the opinion of Major R. J.
Guinn, of Atlanta, president of the
Atlanta board of education. He is in
the city in the interest of the war sav
ings campaign. It is not that we do
not get much that is best in literature
and art, according to Major Guinn,
from German, but the schools must
discourage anything that will be reflex
action tending to straighten the com
mercial relationship of the two Coun
tries. He advocates the study of
French for German.
QTi
EDITION
STRIKERS ARE
ORDERED BACK
' TO THEIR WORK
GERMANY DECLARES THAT ALL
STRIKERS NOT IN THEIR PLACES
WILL BE TREATED WITH MILL
TA RY DISCIPLINE.
.
LONDON, Feb. 2. —Serious rioting oc
curred Thursday in Spandau, where
impirtant whr industries are located.
An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Amsterdam reports that soldiers were
attacked by the mob and that police
men were dragged from their horses
and beaten.
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Martial Law at Berlin.
LONDON, Feb. 2.—Seven 1| rlin
factories have been placed under inar
tal law and the strkers ordered to re
sume work by Monday mornng, at
the latest, or be punished according
to military discipline, according to a
Central News dispatch “from Amster
dam.
Socialist Leader Arrested.
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 2.—Berlin even
ing newspapers just received here say
Wilhelm Dittmann, socialist leader in
the reichstag, wa s arrested when he
attempted to address a crowd in a
suburb of Berlin. Dittmann’s name
was linked last October with those of
Deputies Haase and Vogtherr, also so
cialists, in connection with the mutiny
in the Germany fleet A national dem
onstration is being organized to pro
test against his arrest, it is an
nounced.
“Isolated ami Insgnificant Excesses.”
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 2.—“lsolated
and insignigeant excesses” in Berlin
yesterday are reported in a semi-offi
cial statement received here today.
Work is said to have been resumed by
striekrs at Hamburg and Dansiz.
Anglo-Ameircan Plot Charged.
LONDON, Feb. 2.—Berlin dispatches
alleging existence of an Anglo-Amer
ican plot to foment revolutions in the
four Central Powers territory, are pub*
lished n Cologne papers, accordng to
an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Amsterdam. It is said that in Wash
ington on New Year’s Day two hun
dred and fifty million marks were sub
scribed for this purpose.
FOOD BOARTWILL
OPEN IIP OFFICES
DUTIES HAVE BECOME SO NUM
EROUS THAT QUARTERS WILL
BE ESTABLISHED OVER THE
TIMES-RECORDER OFFICE.
Beginning tomorrow, the Sumter
County Food Administration will have
quarters over The Times-Rtcorder, on
t.ie second floor.
The duties of the food administra
tion have become so numerous and
exacting that a special office is re
quired for the food administrator.
PORT OF SAVANNAH
BE USED BY BOARD
SAVANNAH, Ga., Feb. 2.—Savannah
end other southern ports have won
their fight before the authorities in
Washington to be used as ports of
export for sending foodstuffs, muni
tions and other necessities to Europe.
Special correspondence from Washng
ton says that millions of tons of food
stuffs and supplies consigned to Eu
rope have been diverted from New
York and Hoboken to Southern
greater part of these shipments, was
diverted by jvay of Savannah. It fur
ther states that Chairman Hurley, of
the shipping board, has decided to use
the port of Savannah to its fullest ca
pacity. W. V, Davis, president of
the board of trade here, has gone to
Washington on business connected
with the future of the port.
NUMBER 29.