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THE TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 187*.
fHI TIMES-RECORDER COMPANY,
(Incorporated.)
Publisher.
Published every arternoon, except
•aturday, every Sunday morning, and
M a Weekly (every Thursday).
Entered as second class matter at
,-ostoiHce at Americus, Ga., under act
f March 3, 1879.
FRANC MANGUM,
Editor and Manager.
! L. H. KIMBROUGH,
Assistant Business Manager.
Subscription Bates.
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gear (in advance).
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vance).
Uember of The Associated Press.
The Associated Press is exclusively
entitled to the use for republication of
all news credited to it or not otherwise
sreilited in this paper, and also the lo
feal news published herein.
OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR:
City of Americus
Sumter County
Webster County
skailroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District.
U. S. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, Ga. March 3, 1918.
PARAGRAPHICAL!! SPEAKING |
If you wish to rise with the sun,
do not sit up too late with the daugh
ter.
Chairman Hurley says there are
500,000 men working in the shipbuild
ing yards. A writer in Collier’s sa>*3
150,000. No doubt he has counted
them, one by one.
If they had sent women to the war
instead of men, it is possible that the
wearing of the uniform would have
helped some of these single ladies of
advanced years to get husbands.
Now that they are presenting nude
dances at the Metropolitan grand opera.
house in New’ York, we confidently j
expect the railroads to begin the op-
eration of excursion trains from all
points, in order to accommodate the
crowds.
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An Englishman claims that he and j
his w’ife and three children lived four
weeks on a salad made out of raw
turnips. But suppose he had tried to
live that long entirely on the .pale
rooster salad they serve at our social
functions!
Lord Northcliffe, publisher of sev
tral big dailies a s well as magazines,
says what the boys in uniform w-ant j
is the home paper, the local “which
tells who w r as at the church social,
who has been married and which team
w-on the game.”
When the women take over the!
county offices the cuspidors will go
out of the courthouses. With a wo
man judge on the bench the lawyers
will have to quit smoking. Aud w-ith
women eouncilmen we may expect
ordinances making it a misdemeanor
to wear a dirty shirt or come down
town unshaven. There is consider
able to this woman suffrage question
beyond what appears on the surface.
The Farmers’ Home Journal rises
t c . speak a good word for the hen and
her part in winning the war. “In all
this talk about food production the
humble hen should not be forgotten,
because in a rush job she is in a class
by herself. She can produce food ir.
the shape of eggs and meat, and car.
reproduce herself more quickly than
any other sort of live stock, and in do
ing it can use up more varieties of
waste-food products.”
An exchange tells the story of a
boy who was sent to market with a
sack full of rabbits, lingering around
town all day and coming back with
out selling them. When asked by his
mother why he had not sold the rob
bits, he said no one asked him what
was in the sack. How many of our
merchants are like this little boy?
They have plenty of goods for sale,
but fail to tell the people what is in
the sack. If you expect to sell good®
in this day and age, you must open
your sack and keep shouting the mer
its of your stock in trade.
WHY WE ARE CONFIDENT.
The Times-Recorder is not worried
1 over the outcome of the senatorial
primary, scheduled for the second
Wednesday in September.
I Even though there are a dozen can
didates, we do not believe that Geor
; gians will elect any man whose abso
; lute fidelity to his government is at
all questioned or questionable.
Loyal Georgians w-ould not vote for
a man of uncertain motives to rep
resent them as leader of the army of
Americans now in France. They would
not vote for a man of dubious pur
poses to act for them as president
during this stress of war. Nor would
they vote for a shifty aud unscrupu
lous demagogue to speak for them in
the halls of Congress.
They would not, nor will they!
To say that any petty politician of
cheap character i s likely under any
circumstances to win a nomination for
the United States Senate in this state
is an infamous insult to the intelli
gence. integrity and patriotism of the
people of Georgia.
It is tantamount to charging that
there are as many, or almost as many,
disloyal as loyal Georgians.
It is euuivalent to saying that the
; ignorant citizenry is almost as numer
ous as he intelligent—and in this day
and time ignorance is downright dis
loyalty!
Ther e is no excuse for any man not
knowing what the w r ar is about. It is
almost inconceivable, indeed, that any!
person able to read and write, or to *
talk and hear, should be in doubt why
the United States is fighting for its
l’berties, and for the lives and liber
ties of posterity, just as surely as
Washington and his faithful patriots
fought for ours!
There may be ignorant men in Geor
gia, there may be unpatriotic men, but
they are not so plentiful as to make
doubtful and anxious any campaign in
which loyal service, past, present and
! future, is the paramount issue. That
j is why The Times-Recorder is abso
| lutely confident that in the primary
next September a junior senator will
be elected who typifies the best
thought of this commonwealth. As
William J. Harris is just such a man,
j and has such a commanding lead in
I his candidacy that no other candidate
can possibly hope to overcome it, we
believe that he will be, logically and
easily, chosen to vindicate Georgia
in the Senate and to prove thereby
that this state demands of members
of Congress fidelity to political trust
along with umvavering and unstinted
si pport of their country both in peace
j ar.d in war.
TIIE WAR IN GEORGIA.
There has been a fresh outburst of
the War of the Sixties in the territory
| ranging from Millen to Savannah, and
all the w r orld has been given due and
public notice that when the editor of
the Millen News meets the managing
editor of the Savannah Press there will
be a hostile demonstration reminis
cent of the worst days of Seven Pines,
Gettysburg and Bull Run.
The Savannah Press was displeased
because the public schools of Millen
combined their celebration of Georgia
Day on February 12 with an observ
ance of the anniversary of the birth
of Lincoln, thereby precipitating a
lively controversy which has finally
led the Millen News editor to the fol
lowing bombastic discharge:
The editor of the Savannah
Press can romp on the politicians,
the superintendent of our public
schools and the men of Millen all
he wants to, bht whenever he
, takes a shot at the women of Mil
len he can just put it down that
there is one man in Millen that he
will have to lick the first time he
meets him. However, if he will
apologize for what he said about
the Daughters of the Confederacy
and the school celebrating Lin
coln’s birthday and Georgia Day
jointly, we will let him off this
time.
Not at all daunted by that storm of
shot and shell, the Savannah Press
rejoins with the suggestion that on
April 26 the schools of Millen com
bine their Memorial Day exercises
with a program paying tribute to
Gen. Grant.
Os course, the argument is all bas
ed on the idea that the Savannah
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
/Press has gratuitously offended the
good ladies of Millen, by impunging
their patriotism, their intelligence, and
their sense of propriety. But we are
sure no such affront w r as ever intend
ed. The Savannah Press, apparently
unable as yet to view Lincoln in his
true perspective as a really great
American, belonging to history and to
the ages, literally sees “Stars and
Bars” at the very thought of justice
being done to his memory on occas
ion when the birth of Georgia is be
ing celebrated.
Os course, the Confederacy is a ten
der and sacred memory with all
Southerners. We cannot forget that
its flag of Stars and Bars was once
the oriflamme of the South, to bte fol
lowed to death if need be, like the
helmet of Navarre—that even today it
represents our mothers’ tears and our
fathers’ blood, the honor of their home
and the glory of his manhood. The
real Southerner, young or old, regards
an insult to that Flag as a personal
indignity and a stain on its memory
as a reflection on liis own character.
But in this time when there is
neither north nor south, nor east nor
west, but one united land of the free
and home of the brave, fighting side
by side under a common banner which
means more to all of us than the most
sacred of sentiments, it were idle and
foolish, even among ourselves, to
fight over again the most terrible fra
tracidal srife this continent has ever
known.
With due regard for the feelings of
each, and with, we are sure, the power
to dispassionately consider and appre
ciate the merits of the entire conten
tion, we respectfully tender our ser
vices as an umpire to arrange an ar
mistice and ultimately a treaty, with
out rancor or regret, between the bel
licose editor of the Millen News and
the doughty director of the Savannah
Press.
Rep. Dies, of Texas, says he had
never heard of, nor seen, Rep. Fuller,
of Miss., until that gentleman wrote
a letter to the speaker the other day.
However, Mr. Dies has nothing on us,
and for that matter we can go him
even one better: We don’t care to
see Mr Fuller.
GAMBLING IN GRAIN.
A newspaper subscriber writes the
following letter of inquiry:
Who is supposed to be the pro
per agency to fix the prices of
necessary foodstuffs—Mr. Hoover
or the Chicago Board of Trade?
Kindly note the fireworks in corn
and oats on that board for the
past two weeks, and at a time
when the public is requested to
use the products of both these ce
reals in place of wheat and also
when the receipts of both are run
ning more than heavy.
Every person in the country
with real blood is anxious and
willing to co-operate with Mr.
Hoover. But there are many who
cannot see why these grains
should be allowed to be speculat
ed in, when wheat is not, as long
as they are to be used as substi
tutes for wheat.
It really is a mystery why the na
tional food administration has per
i mitted the substitute wheat cereals to
be exploited by the speculators.
If they are to take the place of
wheat, then they should be subjected
to the same protection as wheat, and
speculation in them should be prohib
ited.
Within a week after meal was nam
ed a s a wheat substitute, and as one
of the cereals compelled to be pur
chased when buying flour, it advanced
in price nearly fifty cents a bushel
Rice has also gone up, and potatoes
are advancing.
The American people, though per
haps reluctantly for a time, are will
ing to do without their biscuits, but
if they make this gastronomic sacri
fice the government should manifest
its appreciation by protecting them on
the substitutes. There should be im
mediate effective action along the line
of prohibiting what the writer of the
foregoing query calls “fireworks in
oats and corn.”
Dr. Garfield Is urging folks to buy
their next v ...ter’s coal this spring,
and this is one time when we believe
in taking his advice
; REV. ROBERT
I L. BIVINS IS
HEARD FROM
FORMER PASTOR OF THE
CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH
STATES HIS POSITION.
Americus, Ga. —“I have been
using Jones’ Balsam of Ben
zoin for quite a long time, in
fact, almost as soon as you be
gan to manufacture it my fam
ily commenced using it. Ordi
narily I wouldn’t care to give
a letter of recommendation on
a preparation of this kind, but
I have found this Balsam to be
extremely good as a family lin
iment. For such things as cuts,
bruises, burns, swellings, aches
and pains, sores, etc., etc., I
find it does what you say for it.
I feel no hesitancy in recom
mending Jones’ Balsam of Ben*
j zoin to my friends, acquaint
ances and the public general
ly.”
This Balsam should be in ev
ery home. A trial convinces.
For sale by all druggists and
dealers.
F. G. OLVER
LOCKSMITH.
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Bonds.
Office, Forsyth St. Phone 2SO
PLENTY OF MONEY TO LEND
i*n both City and Farm Property at
6% Interest. No Waiting.
DAN CHAPPELL,
Altorney-at .Law.
C .P. DAYIS
Dental Surgeon.
Orthodontia, Pyorrhea.
Residence Phone 316. Office Phone 318
Allison Building.
JM. B. COUNCIL
LODGE F. and A. M.
meets every First and
> r Third Friday nights.
Visiting brothers are
invited to attend.
DR. J. R. STATHAM, W. M.
NAT LeMASTER, Secretary.
AMERICLS CAMP, 202, WOODMEN
OF THE WORLD.
Meets every Wednesday night in
tting Sovereigns invited to meet with
Fraternal Hall, Lamar street. All vis
ors welcome. C. J. WILLIAMS, C. C.
NAT LeMASTER, Clerk.
F. and A. M.
& AMERICUS LODGE
F. & A. M., meets
*- W&V& g* every second and
fourth Friday night
a t 7 o’clock.
E. E. SCHNEIDER, W. M.
3. 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
(Jading 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.
Seaboard dir Line
rbe Progressive Railway ol the Soot!)
Leave Americus for Abbeville, Hel
ena, Collins, Savannah, Columbia,
Richmond, Portsmouth and points
East and South
12:S1 p m
1:20 a m
Leave Americus for Helena and in
termediate points
S:l» p m
Leave Amecrius for Columbus,
Montgomery and points West and
Northwest
3:08 p m
H. P. EVERETT, Agent, Amerl'ug. Gft.
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