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THE TIMES-RECORDER
WTABUSHED 1879.
TIMES-RECORDER COMPANY,
(Incorporated.)
Publisher.
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r March 3. 1879.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR:
City of Americus
Sumter County
Webster County
Mall road Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District.
U. 8. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, Ga-, February 17,1918.
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tPAMGFAPHICILLV SPEAKING |
After holding up war stuff, Con
gress is indignant it isn’t ready.
More money people nave left after
paying income tax, worse they kick!
Tiie red tapers complain that
orders for war supplies are put
through now without having all the
office boys sign it.
Some folks withdrew their objec
tion to Dr. Garfield's ten workless
"Mondays when they learned the movie
theatres could open.
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The German newspapers are allow
ed to comment freely on President
Wilson’s utterances provided they
haven't read them.
The German strikers are confident
ly and graciously assured by Kaiser
Bill that they won’t suffer any more
after they are dead.
If Lincoln and Washington wanted
their birthdays properly celebrated,
they should have arranged to be born
during the baseball season.
It comes quite convenient to peo-,
pie who are always two weeks late
in delivering goods, to have the
freight congestion to lay it to.
Many of the loudest clamorers for
speeding up our war work were the
loudest talkers a few years ago
against spending anything on the
army.
Some of our women friends deny
that they are not interested in war
subjects, as they spend much time
considering the military’ styles of hat
trimming.
The people who say we can’t win
thia war, will be the ones who would
complain the most about the stand
lag army that will be necessary if
we don’t win it.
Th* proposals of the “unspeakable”
Turks for a separate peace with Rus
sia provided too much for even the Bol
sheviki, which is putting Turkey in
a desperately bad class.
It would be fine for Father to join
the Cut a Cord of Wood Club, but
many housewives of Americus would
fee well satisfied if he would only split
«P enough kindling for next day’s
Ititchen fire.
Some Americus residents think they
are saving money when they spend
95.90 on a railroad trip to a certain dis
tant city and then
bargain 49 price which
TSfSy have to be returned later.
The people who will complain most
fettterly about the high cost of cloth
teig- next fall will be the same one
who failed to read in The Times-Re
corder the announcement of bargains
to be had at the home stores at this
between seasons period.
BOYS OF TODAY.
There are too many young hoys to
day who quit school before they grad
uate A great many of our boys who
show great promise in their books
leave school before their education is
■ finished, and their future is ruined.
Many of the great men of the nation
have had little schooling, but these
men are exceptions to the rule, and
again, they spent many nights at
study; their mind were, perhaps, more
fertile than that of the average boy,
and they studied at home harder, long
er and with a bteter insight into
what they studied than do many pupils
at school.
The boy who is permitted to leave
school too early is apt to drift with
the crowd and be content with small
achievement. The immediate dollar
he can earn looks big, and he sees
no use in poring over dry books. His
mind is not awakened and he never
gets a start.
If the teacher can persuade a
bright boy to stay’ in school and se-'
cure the parents’ consent to sacrifice
his wages, poverty is little obstacle
to his advance. When he shows in
itiative and ambition, business men
are pleased and interested, and glad
to help him on. The obstacles he has
surmounted really help him. They
give him confidence that he can meet
the greater difficulties of life as they
arise.
W A STING OUR RE SOURCE ES.
The statement is made by the New
York Board of Health that large num
bers of children are dying in that
city for the want of milk. The sup
ply of this precious article of diet
for children is admittedly scarce and
all authorities agree that, owing to
the war and to the ravages of tuber
culosis and other diseases among
dairy cattle, it will be impossible to
increase the actual milk supply to any
apppreciable extent in the near future.'
The solution, in their opinion, lies
ir the stopping of the wasteful meth
ods of butter making, which is de
scribed as an old-time process in
which all the food value of the milk
is lost except the fat.
One of the problems today is the
shortage of milk and the high prices
consequently prevailing, which place
it beyond the reach of many people
who need it for the consumption of
the little ones in the home. The
urgency of this point has been indicat
ed in the suggestions and advice is
si ed by the food administration,
tion. While enjoining the utmost
conservation consistent with good
health in other respects, Mr. Hoover
insisted that the milk supply for the
children was to be the last thing
touched, if touched at all.
Doubtless, there are reasons for a
lessening of the aggregate milk sup
ply of the nation that go back to
a phase of production that,cannot be
adjusted offhand. Without entering
into that phase or its remedy, how
ever, various students of the situation
are discussing how best to utilize the
milk supply now in sight.
In expatiating on the situation and
its remedy, as well as the character 1
of the difficulties that will be met,
one authority says the situation will
be overcome through an increased
consumption of oleomarmargarine.
Oleomargarine is now universally
admitted to be just nutritious as but
ter. It is cleaner and safer, because
it is protected by careful government
protection.
Why should not the creameries in
or contiguous to the large centers of
population conserve the milk supply
by using a small amount to churn
a large amount of food oi into
ing and palatable table food dn( j bot
tling a large amount ' the mUk for
the children?
True, the re are certain restrictions
piaced about the sale of oleomargarine
by the federal government, but it is
virtually impossible to meet a man
who. when presented with the propo
sition of making every special in
dustry subordinate to the general
good in the face of war necessities,
does not give immediate assent to the
general principle. It is when the
principle is applied to a particular In
dustry in which he uiay be interested
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
that the protest comes. |
So when the butter and milk prob-'
lem comes to be considered in its
final analysis, it is reasonable to as
sume that the restrictions which now’
surround the manufacture of such
wholesome food as oleomargarine will
be removed. Unless these restric
tions are removed, millions of gallons
of skim milk will continue to be wast
ed, millions of pounds of food oils
will go into industrial uses, and the
prices of milk and butter will go high
er and higher while the death rate
among the children of the nation will
continue to grow until it becomes ap
palling.
THE WASTERS.
The wheat plant, has many enemies.
Not only man, but also a great
variety of other organisms have learn
ed that it is good to eat. Plant para
sites are numerous and rm the in
crease. Several are distributed at
planting time on the seed. Rusts,
smuts, molds mildew’s, scabs, bacteria
and a half-dozen other plant parasites
take, each one, their annual toll, and
the aggregate is enormous. Chinch
bugs, aphides, Hessian fly, grass hop
pers, weevils, wire worms and other
insects destroy as much omer; perhaps,
more than much more. Then there
are the grain-eating birds and the
field rodents, not a small item, while
houses and barns, hog sheds and cat
tle ranches, mills and graneries, often
sw’arm with rats and mice, enormous
ly prolific and more destructive than
an army, except perhaps a German
army. Man gets w’hat is left, and the
mass of mankind never give a mo
ment’s thought to the fact that often
they get less than half the crop, and
even under the most favorable con
ditons never a full crop, or to the
further fact that civilized man lives
so nearly from hand to mouth and
now depends so much on international
comity for the rapid transfer of food
as needed from land to land, that by
a general failure of foodstuffs for but
a single reason, or by a local failure
coupled with the systematic destruc
tion of merchant shipping, as in the
present w-ar, w’hole nations may be
reduced suddenly to the verge of
starvation.
The waste due to rats and mice
alone would feed an army. More
over, if w’e could dispose of these ro
dents, which are dangerous as well
as destructive, and it is quite possible
to do so by rebuilding our storehouses
and by the systematic use of traps
and of poison, we could then eliminate
most of our millions of cats and dogs,
and thereby save enough to feed an
other army, to mitigate the poverty
in our midst, or to feed all those
European peoples whom pan-German
greed has reduced to the verge of
starvation.
Looking toward the ftuure, it seems
likely that following this war there
will be a w’orld-shortage of wheat for
many years. European fields, agricul
tural implements, stock, farm build
ings and farm laborers have been de
stroyed in such enormous numbers
ar.d over such a large area that to
bring agricluture, w’heat culture in
cluded, back to its old thrift, especial
ly in Belgium, France, Germany, Aus
tria, Rumania, the Balkans and West
ern Russia, will be the task of years.
Moreover, the use of high explosives
having enormously increased in this
war, we must not lose sight of the
fact that the fixed nitrogen so es
sential to the growth of the wheat
plant will be harder than ever to ob
tain, since every shot a gun con
verts justjjQ much of expensive agri
cultfital substance into inert and
poisonous gases. Truly man is the
worst destroyer, and kings and com
mercial men who begin wars are the
greatest criminals on the race of the
earth. In view of this prospective
world-shortage of wheat for at least a
decade and probably a much longer
period, and also because our own pop
ulation will probably increase from
100,000,000 to one hundred end forty
million by the beginning of the second
half of the century, we must plan to
grow in the United States nearly or
quite double our present annual wheat
crop, or, in other words, more than
120.000,000 bushels annually.
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LOST and FOUND
LOST—Bunch of keys on keyring.
Return to The Timcs-Recorder office.
WAN TED—Miscellaneous
WANTED —To rent typewriter for
several weeks. Phone 516. 13tf
SEND YOUR CHILDREN to the
Windsor Barber Shop for their work.
Satisfaction guaranteed; continue to
shave and get your hair cut and all
tonsoriai work at the iWndsor Barber
Shop. 8-ts
AUTOMOBILE LIVERY—Ring Amer
icus Taxi Cab Company. Phone 825;
residence Phone 646. L. L. Compton.
: 3-ts
IF YOU HAVE any trouble with your
roof, either store or residence, Phone
Shiver, 117. 23-ts
MONEY TO LEND at 6% interest on
desirable residences in Americus, Ga.
IT. O. Jones. 18-ts
IF YOUR GRATE does not throw out
the heat. Phone Shiver, 117 23-ts
’ FARM AND CITY LOANS 5 1-2 per
I cent, interest. Terms easy; quick ser
vice. W. W. Dykes. 9-25-ts
FOR PAINT, Roofing Cement, Roof
Paint, Creosote for preserving your
Shingles, Phone Shiver, 117. 23tf
I WANT TO DO YOUR fine watch,
clock and jewelry repairing. Expert
service and reasonable charges. R. S.
Broadhurst, Jeweler. 110 Lamar St.,
directly In front of postoffice. 6-lt
WANTED—A good buggy and har
ness. Must be cheap. Address Lock
Box 86. 8-ts
RUGS —Carpets, cleaned approach
ing new. Phone 443. J. N. Carter.
15-ts
FOR SALE
FOR SALE—One 1917 Model Chevl
rolet car, run 2,000 miles, at a reason
able price. Address G. C. Deariso,
route, 2 .Leslie. Ga. 6t d —ltw
FORSALE —Tamworth wilts, on
Ellaville road. Apply to J. T. Hurley,
Ellaville road, Americus, Ga. 17-2 t
FOR SALE —Few Fulghum oats left.
Phone 647. 13-7 t
FOR SALE Ford truck fifteen
model; new casings all around in A-l
shape. B. H. Allen, 111 So. Lee street.
Phone 556.
FOR SALE —Two Peacock Jersey
cows with young calves. C. E. Doster.
10-6 t
FOR SALE—E. M. F. CUT-DOWN
IN GOOD CONDITION. NEWLY
PAINTED. WILL SELL FOR $225.
APPLY TO FRANK CHAPPELL,
CHAPPELL MACHINERY CO. as
FOR SALE—Black Minorca cocker
els; very fine birds; also eggs, $1.50
sitting. Address 942 Oglethorpe Ave.
13-7 t
FOR SALE— Cutdown E.- M. F. auto
iu good condition. Bargain price. See
Frank Chappell at Chappell Machin?
ery Co.
FOR SALE —Yuba Tractor used only
short time. Good machine for farm
work. Would sell at reasonable
price. At present located near Ameri
cus. Address, Box 14, Macon, Ga.
For SALE —A light, five-passenger
used car, in fine repair. A real bar
gain. Cali for H. D. Ross, at Mauck’s
Garage, Americus, Ga. 15-2 t
BRICK, LIME, Cement Plaster snd
Sand. Phone ll?. Shiver. 28-ts
FOR SALE—Red Cedar Shingles,
the forty-year sort; any quantity;
car lots a specialty. Phone 117.
Shiver. 29 ts.
FOR RENI
R. A. SHY’S TAXI SERVICE; nice
cars; careful drivers. City calls, 25c;
after 12 o'clock at night, 50c; funerals
and weddings, $5.00 a car. Day Phone
161; Night, 328 and 267. 26-lm
WHERE DO YOU get the best shave
At the Windsor Barber Shop. 23
L fi. COUNCIL, Pres’t. INC. 1891 T. E. BOLTON, Asst. Cashier
C. M. COUNCIL, Vice-Pres. and Cashier JOE M. Bryan, Asst. Cashier
Planters Bank of Americus
CAPITAL SURPLUS & PROFITS $240,000.00
Resources Over One and a quarter Million Dollars
We want to help you in
crease y° ur Agricultural or
commercral efficiency.
SB George Washington says:
“Thrift, when it begins to
take ro °t, ’ s a pl an t
W ra Pid growth.”
As a first step in thrift, why not open an account
with us, either commercial or savings? Our quarter
of a century of experience is at your disposal.
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MONEY 515.
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; luUllLl LU/UILU interest and borrowers have priv«
i ilege of paying part or all of principal at any interest
period, stopping inlerest on amounts paid. We always
] have best rates and easiest terms and give quickest ser-
! vice. Save money by seeing us.
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G. R. ELLIS or G. C. WEBB
Williams-Niles Co.
Hardware
A complete line of Automo
bile Tires, Tubes, Blow-Out
Patches, Cement, Rose Air
Pumps, Signal Horns, Radia
tor Neverleak, Carbon Re
mover, Wrenches for Ford
Cars, Etc.
Cooking Stoves, Ranges,
Wood and Coal Heaters
Phone 706
Americus Undertaking Company
Funeral Directors and Embalmers
Nat LeMaster, Manager
Day Phones 88 ana 231 Night 661 and 13.
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General Banking Business
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CLAUDE MAUK & CO.
Have opened up at Stanley’s old place, on Jefferson
Street, rear of Chero-Cola Co., and want to do your
Automobile Repair Work
When you have any troubles with your car phone 41.
Mauck will give you prompt service and
Guarantee Satisfaction
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1918.