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THE TIMES-RECORDER
M4TABLIBHED 1879.
CMB TIMES-RECORDER COMPANY,
(Incorporated.)
Publisher.
Published every afternoon, except
Saturday, every Sunday morning, and
M a Weekly (every Thursday).
Entered as second class matter at
-oatoffice at Americus, Ga., under act
t March S, 1879. _
FRANC MANGUM,
Editor and Manager.
L. H. KIMBROUGH,
Assistant Business Manager.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN FDR:
City of Americus
Sumter County
Webster County
Railroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District.
U. 8. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, Georgia, February 6, 1918,
PARAGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING |
Men may come, and men may go,
But a woman is going to finish her row.
How would you like to see the Kai
ser’s face on a ten-dollar bill?
Every time a woman lays a scheme
to catch a man she feels like cackling
like a hen.
We hope these ladies who sing with
“a great deal of feeling” don't feel as
bad as they sing.
Most men feel that it is all right to
forgive their enemies, but they want
to get even with them first.
Camouflage is all right, but, honest,
we do think the women ought to Hoov
•rize on paint and powder.
Incompatibility of temperament con
sists largely in the husband refusing
to get mad when his wife does.
They’re talking about appointing a
clothing administrator. To regulate
the length of skirts, we suppose.
Any time a man can owe money to>
a grocer these days you can put it
down that his credit is good anywhere.
They say that when a second lieu
tenant goes in to buy an engagement
ring he alawys buys at least half a
dozen.
You who are kicking on the price
»f eggs, suppose you lived in South
Africa, where ostrich eggs weigh
three .pounds.
A lot of second lieutenants don’t
want peace declared for a year yet
It will take them that long to pay for
all their uniforms.
A man brought us five dozen fresh
eggs and two pounds of country butter
today. We don’t know whether he
waa under bond or not.
Down in Savannah they're having a
fight on the price of ice. Evidently
Trying to fool themselves into believ-,
ing that summer has come!
In Germany the ladies are wearing
skirts made out of paper. We’d hate'
to be out on the street when a good
Aard shower fell unexpectedly.
You can always tell a married man.
He is the fellow who used to buy a
two-pound box of candy once a week, '
btet now buys a one-pound box once a
month.
Secretary Baker says that some of,
xhe men who have married since last'
I
April are slackers. Huh, he must
|
liave some confidential information
from their wives.
If those ladies who object to our
paragraphs w-ould only write a few,
themselves, they might be satisfied,
and they would certainly save us a lot
•f time and thought
SOME NEW LAW.
There used to be an old-fashioned
' idea that the school child was only
under the jurisdiction and control of
the school authorities as long as he or
> she was actually in, or on the way to
or from, school.
But the supreme court of Georgia
has completely upset thht theory.
A child now is subject to the orders
of the school authorities for nine
months of the year, day and night, and
Sunday, too.
Says tlie Moultrie Observer:
’’The Supreme court has held that
•* school may, without exceeding reas
onable authority, formulate rules for
school children that will control their
conduct when they are not at school,
such for instance, as forbidding their
attending picture shows during the
week except on Friday light. We'
would never have guessed that the
courts would have made such a ruling,]
but in these days we might as well be
prepared to expect anything in the'
way of abridgement of the rights of'
tho individual.”
Then this from the Augusta Chron
icle is interesting:
“Down in Swainsboro about a year
ago a considerable row was raised be
cause the superintendent and the board
of trustees of the High school of that
town adopted a rule forbidding any
.pupil attending a moving picture show
on any night except Friday or Satur-,
day. Th e penalty provided for expul- j
sion or suspension from the school in
case of violation.
Several of the patrons of the school.
sought an injunction to restrain the
school authorities from the enforce
ment of the rule, on the ground that it
was arbitrary, unreasonable and an
usurpation of power that deprived par
ents of parental control of their chil
dren out of school hours.
“The injunction was denied by the
superior court judge, and the case was
carried to the state supreme court,
which tribunal has just passed on the
question, confirming the decision of ;
the superior ocurt judge.
“In discussing the matter, the News
and Farmer, of Louisville, states that,
this is the first case of its kind that ]
has ever been adjudicated by the state’
supreme court, and unquestionably it
will be given a high place in the rul
ings of modern days, because of its
bearings it has not only on this speci
fic question, but others involving sim
ilar questions.
"Os course there will be still thous
! ands of parents who will continue to
labor under the impression that they
are administrators of their home af
fairs in cases of this kind, as. well as
most others, and just as there are dif
ferences about other matters of law,
there will be a difference of opinion
in this particular matter.”
Under this decision, the parent sur
renders much of his authority over
his own child when he sends that child
to a public school. The teacher, or
superintendent, or trustee, may be off
at a picnic, or a lodge meeting, or a
dance, or may be home asleep, and
may not know anything about the par
ticular needs or capacity of the indi
vidual child, but his rule over it goes
on just the same. The parent, who, of
course, has the child’s best interests
' at heart, must yield to the whim of
tlie school officials.
This is strange, but the supreme
court says it is the law. And the su
’ preme court gets paid for saying what
the law Is.
Has the Race Won.
,| The Valdosta Times says: "Some
of the slick Georgia politicians are
trying to get Hon. Andrew Cobb into
the senatorial race, the object being
to divide the opposition to Hardwick.
1 The trick ought not to work. Mr.
J William J. Harris appears to be the
logical man to put against Hardwick,
, and Harris now has the race won.”
Will Win Ont.
1 The recent statement sent out from
Washington regarding his candidacy
for the Senate by Hon. William J.
Harris should put a quietus on those
who have been industriously circulat
ing reports that he did not propose
,to stay in tlie race. Mr. Harris will
j unquestionably bo in the race to the
end, and will win out —Rome Tribune-'
Herald.
IHE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
ARE YOU PATRIOTIC!
The Tifton Gazette says:
Doubtless the fact that a small
proportion of the farmers of the
country had all the corn they
could use and therefore should
not be required to buy more in or
der to obtain flour did not occur
to the president or his advisors;
else perhaps an exception would
have been made in their case.
Perhaps this will be done when
attention of the proper authorities
is called to the matter.
Until this is done, the farmer,
with an ample supply of corn, will
reduce his consumption of flour.
With the genu ne Georgia Cracker
this will be no hardship, for h»
likes corn bread.
It is really a remarkable fact that
the largest flour eaters, comparatively,
are negroes.
The editor of The Tlmes-Recorder,
happening to be food administrator for
this county, has very recently had
considerable contact with the poorer
class of negroes, the farm hands, and
was amazed to learn directly from
them that they esteemed corn bread
chiefly as a feed for their dogs.
“Why don’t you eat corn bread?”
they have been asked.
“Boss, my chillun eats that, and
my dawgs. I wants white bread.”
The order, put into effect yester-:
day by the president, at the instance j
of the food administration, requiring
restaurants, hotels, and dining cars
to serve not more than two ounces
of white bread to each patron at a
meal and not more than four ounces
of all breadstuffs combined at a
single meal, is the very next thing to
a card ration system, and is the most
drastic food regulation yet enacted.
It simply indicates the stringency of
the times ,in the matter of food.
Another interesting feature that has
developed is that negroes are very
small rice eaters, and really do not
care for grits. They nave cultivated,
largely in recent years, a taste and a
preference for white flour, and now
they insist on having it. When this
class is taught the necessity of re
ducing their flour consumption, and
are made to reduce it, then there will
be a genuine saving in flour.
For that matter, we all might as
well make up our minds io eat less
flour, and to eat more corn products,
and more rice, and more grits. There
is going to be a shortage of flour, even
more so than there is now; there are
going to be more rigid restrictions;
governing the sale and the use- of
flour, and the public should be pre
pared therefor.
The truth is, we folks had better
satisfy ourselves that our country is
at war. Just because we cannot hear
the guns a-booming and because we
do not see the soldiers marching off,
with flags flying and drums beating,
a’Ul because the conflict is not on.our
own soil, we should not get the idea
that the war doesn’t amount to much.
There is a war, the greatest in the
history of the world, the most vital
to the future of this nation that the
United States has ever engaged in,
and it is going to be won by a dozen
different factors. Heretofore wars
have been won by bullets and men.
This time it takes the energy, the pri
vations, the contributions in many
ways, of every man and woman in ev
ery walk of life. It takes food and
money as well as men and munitions,
and in the matter of food those of us
at home can help by eating less of
that which the soldiers and our asso
ciates at war must have and need the
most.
There’s just as much patriotism at
the meal table as there is in any other
wary.
Are you patriotic?
It doesn’t make us mad for a lady
to call up and complain that her paper
hasn’t come. We’re glad to know that
she appreciates it that much. And we
hope she’ll call again—whenever her
paper doesn’t come.
An unknown correspondent sends
us this: “Here’s one of t ehLassies
O' Lee Street: Mrs. Luke Mathewsla
says when she was growing up the
girls didn't lift anything except their
eyebrows when they crossed a muddy
place in the road.”
J. LEWIS ELLIS
Attorney at Law
Planter's Bank Building
Amei icus, Co.
PLENTY OF MONEY TO LEND
On both City and Farm Property at
G% Interest. No Waiting.
DAN CHAPPELL,
Attorney-at -Law.
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING.
Interior Decorating.
Get My Estimates.
JOE FITZGERALD.
109 E. Lamar St.
V J*. DA 718
Dental Surgeon.
Orthodontia, Pyorrhea.
Residence Phone 316. Office Phone 318
Allison Building.
MISS BESSIE WINDSOR,
Incarnate.
Bonds.
Office Forsyth St. Phone 281
• M. B. COUNCIL
LODGE F. and A. M.
tajgßHfc jg meets every First and
Third Friday nights.
* ' Visiting brothers are
invited to attend.
DR. J. R. STATHAM. W. M.
NAT LeMASTER, Secretary.
AMERICUS CAMP, 202, WOODMEN
OF THE WORLD.
Meets every Wednesday night in
iting Sovereigns invited to meet with
Fraternal Hall, Lamar street. AH vis
ors welcome. C J. WILLIAMS, C. C.
NAT LeMASTER, Clerk.
F. and A. M.
H AMERICUS LODGE
F. & A. M., meets
’i dP every second and
fourth Friday night
J at 7 o'clock.
E. E. SCHNEIDER. W. M.
S. L. HAMMOND, Secy.
WASHINGTON CAMP, No. 14,
P. 0. S. of A.
Meets every first and third Monday
nights in P. O. S. of A. Hall, No. 213
Lamar street. All members in good
standing invited to attend. Beneficiary
certificates .from $250.00 to $2,000.00
issued to members of this camp.
T. E. CASTLEBERRY, President.
O. D. REESEfi Recd'g. Secy. .
C. cf Ga.Ry
"The Right Way”
Trains Arrive,
From Chicago, via
Columbus *12:05 a m
From Columbus ...111:45 a m
From Columbus 7:15 p m
From Columbus 1110:00 a in
From Atlanta and Macon..* 5:19 a in
From Macon *2:11 p m
From Macon ♦ 7 :80 p m
From Albany * 0:37 a m
From Montgomery and
Albany * 2:11 p m
From Montgomery and
Albany *10:45 p m
From Jacksonville, via
Albany” •• * 8:40 a m
Trains Depart.
For Chicago, v’a Columbus * 3:10 a in
For Columbus ! 7:00 a m
For Columbus • 8:00 p m
For Macon and Atlanta ...* 6:87 a m
For Macon and Atlanta....* 2:11 p in
For Macon and Atlanta *10:45 p m
For Montgomery and
Albany * 5:19 a in
For Montgomery and
Albany * 2:11 p in
For Albany • 7:80 p m
Fo" Jacksonville, via
Albany *12:05 a m
•Daily. ! Except Sunday. !! Sunday
only.
udv GEO. ANDERSON, Arent
Seaboard Air Line
Fbe Progressive Railway ot the Scutl)
Leave Americus fur Cordele. Ro
chelie, Abbeville, Helena, Lyons, Col
lin*, Savannah, Columbia, Richmond,
Portsmouth and points East and South
12:81 p m.
1:20 a. m.
Leave Americus for Cordele, Abbe
rille, Helena and intermediate points
5:15 p. m.
Leave Americus for Richland, Co
ambus, Atlanta, Birmingham, Hurts
boro, Montgomery and points West
and Northwest
8:08 >. m.
Seaboard Buffet Parlor Sleeping Car
?n Trains 13 and 14 arriving Americas
from Savannah 10:40 », m., and leav
ing Americus for Savannah 1:20 a. m.
Sleeping car lea Ing for Savannah at
1:20 a. m., Will ue open for passeng
»rs at 10:40 p. m.
For further information apply to H.
p. ~verett, Local Agent, Americus,
la.; C. W. Small. Div. Pass. Agent,
Sa”*nnnh, Ga.; C. P. Ryan, G. P. A-,
Norfolk, Va.
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C. M. COUNCIL Vlce-Pres. and Cashier JOE 0. Bryan, Asst. Cashier
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Automobile Repair Work
When you have any troubles with your car phone 41.
Mauck will give you prompt service and
Guarantee Satisfaction
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY S, 1918.