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Americus, Georgia, March 7, 1918.
IPARftGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING |
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Whenever feathers are fashionable
>omen have no hesitancy about “show
ing the white feather.’’
Next to drinking in the love out of
a pretty woman’s eyes, let have a good
glass of cold buttermilk.
This is the season when the amateur
gardener and his neighbor’s chickens
run a daily marathon to the garden
patch.
Some of these early morning gard
eners are as proud of the blisters in
their hands as the soldier is of his
scars.
Now that poker winnings are sub
ject to the income tax, you’ll hear few
fellow’s bragging about how much
they’ve won.
Now’ and then we meet a man who
is still happy at thirty-five but most
of them marry long before they’re as
old as that.
This season’s crop of spring poets
isn’t quite so large as last year’s,
but the quality of their effort is
equally as bad.
Being an admirer of things beauti
ful we are constrained to say that the
tender string beanlet is the most
beautiful flower in all the W’orld.
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The millinery garages are showing
some fetching new bonnets nowadays
and the average wife is beginning to
be more civil to friend husband.
The average woman thinks first
of her feet and with twelve dollar
boots and a pair of silk stockings she
doesn’t complain if her skirt is a trifle
short.
With such weather as w r e are now
having no one need be surprised if
even some of the old bachelors here
about lightly turn to thoughts of
love.
Luke McLuke says “A. Turnipseed”
lives in Columbia, S. C., but that’s
nothing. A turnipseed buried here
some time ago furnished delicious
salad for our noon meal today.
W’hen the mint bed in the garden
sends its fragrance across the back
voranda in the cool of the evening it
requires a man of ardent convictions
to continue a consistent prohibitionist.
Only a little while now and we will
be enjoying the luscious strawberry,
but until then we’ll have to get along
on young turnip greens, red beets,
spring unions, tender snap beans, ad
good old-fashioed cornbread.
While they are engaged, he clutches
her arm and helps her to step over
a toothpick, to say nothing of curb
stones and mud holes, but after they
are married he will calmly lock on If
she attempts t o climb a brick wall.
A RAY OF HOPE YET.
It has been inconceivable that two
such men as and Trotsky could
absolutely deliver a nation so big as
Russia and a domain so vast unquali
fiedly into the hands of Germany.
Yet that is what these men have
sought to do. Os course, the treaty
with Germany was not entirely framed
nor sponsored by only two men, but
their control of the Russian gover
ment is such that they could have pre
vented it. The servile, supine policy
promulgated by Trotsky, an idea rep
resenting the extreme of socialism to
the degree that it is ultra-Utopian, was
calculated to make Russia the abject
slave of the Kaiser.
Small wonder that the bulk of the
Russian peoples, as densely ignorant
as they are, have refused to approve
this monstrous outrage. A holy war,
so-called, which would be nothing more
nor less than an uprising of and re
sistance by the people, w-ould hardly
stop the tide of the German advance,
but it w-ould at least present consider
able difficulties to the invaders and de
monstrate that Russia has no intention
of becoming a Prussian adjunct.
It is possible that out of the chaos
existing in Russia there may yet
evolve some rehabilitating force, the
development of which will restore Rus
sia to its once proud position of a
stalw-art among the mighty nations of
the world. The “bear that walks like
a man” has been led around by its
German master, ring-in-nose, and made
to perform at the crack of the lash.
Yet this same Bear has 1 such latent
strength that it can not always be
passive, nor forever submit to German
demjnation. In the natural course of
events, the people of Russia are
bound to arise, assert themselves and
throw off the German yoke.
It is not going too far to say tha r
Germany may some day be sorry that
it ever undermined the Russian gov
ernment and undertook to control that
coutry. There is such a thing as cov
eiing too much territory.
Notwithstanding it is still March,
the fragrance of the dogwood blossom
is abroad in the land, the honeysuckle
fills the woods with its perfume and
the peach trees are a bower of love
liness, we still assert this is the season
when trout bite best, pull hardest and
are least sought after by amateur
“fly-slingers.”
A UNIQUE ARGUMENT.
One of the best arguments for pro
hibition is a letter written by a Vir
ginia lawyer to the New York World,
telling how prohibition affects the
practice of lawyers.
The letter reads:
I am an attorney at law, tw-enty
six years in practice at this place.
I write to ask you if you would be
kind enough to convey a message
to lawyers of other states in which
the amendment tot the constitu
tion of the United States in regard
to prohibition is being considered.
What I want them to know i s that
if the amendment prevails the vol
ume of law business will be great
ly decreased.
I do not have in mind the busi
ness of defending criminals, for
that does not amount to much un
der any circumstances. What I
have observed and experienced is
that when a state goes dry, civil
cases growing out of such things
as defective judgment or prema-
k
ture and impulsive acts grow’
scarcer. Lawyers are not required
in such great numbers to help
people in troubles arising from
failures, foreclosures, deceit,
fraud, mistake, marital relations,
mutual misunderstanding of con
tracts and undertakings, defalca
tions, defaulting trustees, neglect
I and the like. Os course cannot
give the exact amount of depre
ciation, but it is safe to say that
it is close to 50 per cent.
It does seem that the lawyer
ought to be indemnified when a
state goes dry.
Following this line of argument the
state that goes dry should also re
imburse the breweries and the dis
tilleries. pay the saloon keepers for
their fixtures and stock, pension the
bartenders and indemnify the makers
cf glasses and bottles.
The very fact that the practice of
lawyers decrease fifty per cent, by
reason of there ensuing less criminal
acts when a state turn s to prohibition
is an eloquent argument in favor of
abolishing the sale of liquor every,
where. Indeed, this lawyer’s letter
should make the finest of campaign
material wherever there is a fight in
progress for prohibition or for the rat
ification of the national constitutional
amendment, which the legislature of
Georgia will soon be called upon to
consider.
The average woman admires Hoover
chiefly because he hasn’t put any re
straint upon fashion, and she may yet
dress as she pleases, provided her
husband can pay the bills.
The Moultrie Observer calls for “pa
triotism of a quiet sort.” You're
right about it! There are some men
who think they can’t be patriotic un
less they tell everybody about t.
HEARST’S CROWNING INFAMY
The following editorial from the Ma
con News covers the subject matter so
thoroughly and so splendidly that The
Times-Recorder feels that it is doing
its readers a service to re-publish it:
If there were any abyss of infamy
and treason into which the unspeaka
ble Hearst had not already fallen, it j
might be a matter of surprise that he
has espoused the cause of the Bolshe
viki and hag committed his string of
gutter-sheets to the reign of chaos and
murder
Every intelligent man who has fol-
Icw’ed his rancid trail for yeast must
have known that, in fact, it led to
some such culmination as he has now
revealed but human nature wag al
most ineaj able of believing that he
would have the impulence to avow the
full measure of his own depravity.
Never before in the history of this
government has there been a more
and damnable thrust at the very
vitals of American institutions than
this spiritual heir of Anarcharsis
Cloots wrote thus over his own sig
nature in his newspapers of March
Ist:
“I think our whole cause is likely to
be injured by any delay in recogniz
ing and supporting Bolsheviki gov
ernment in Russia. s.
“What are the Bolsheviki?
“They are the representatives of the
most democratic government in Eu
rope.
“Why are we in this war?
“We are in it for democracy.
“Then, for heaven’s sake, why not
recognize a democratic government?
“Does this not seem to discredit our
professions of war for democracy?
“Let us recognize the truest democ
racy in Europe, the truest democracy
in the world today. Then we can fight
an inspiring fight for democracy wdth
some truth, some sincerity, and some
conviction.”
Could you believe, without the evi
dence of your ow’n eyes, that any man
out of Bedlam—or Prussia —could have
written this miserable, lying screed?
At th e very moment that American
soldiers are laying down their lives
in France shot to death by German
troops w’hom Bolsheviki treason had
released from the eastern front, this
strident dachshund of American poli
tics barks his approval of the defeat
ist policy which has brought about the
most stupendous calamity of modern
times.
And as if in supreme contempt of
American intelligence, this shameless
charlatan appeals to the lowest pas
sions of the lowest element by brand-,
ing the most despotic of class wars as
the struggle of the “truest democracy
|i the world today!”
What does this “truest democracy
in the w-orld today” think of the
democracy of the United States and o'
the president of this republic We
have it in the very w’ords of the Bol
sheviki organ Pravada of January ll
“ Mr. Wilson is the head of a most
rapacious imperialism and the great
est hypocrite history has ever known.”
Men of Georgia with red blood in
your veins, what do you tihnk of
this William Randolph Hearst who on
March 1, in his string of foul news
papers. asks you to endorse such lan
guage as that? Do you believe that
Woodrow Wilson is “the greatest hy
pocrite history has ever known,” on
do you feel that his burdens, alreadv
heavy, are being multiplied by this
Hearst effort to conjure up a class
war in the United States?
Do you live under a “rapacious im
perialism,” or under a sane democracy
which thus far has tolerated even the
treasonable propaganda of Hearst?
The Bolsheviki idea of democracy
has found expression by destroying all
aisciipdine in the army, and thus per
mitting the Germans to annex Russian
territory greater in extent than the
whole of Prussia.
In the light of Hearst’s instructions
to his editors, printed in his newspa
pers of March 1, and elaborated to
the extent of a page editorial, can
there be any doubt that the “conspir
acy” has arrived?
What will the patriotic men of Geor
gia do about it? Will they wait un
til Hearst has fanned the legions of
unrest to the point of “armed resist
ance” to this “rapacious imperialism”
which our forefathers christened the
United States? Will they wait until
the sinister forces against which thie
president has issued a w’arning have
still further paralyzed his w’ar-making
power and Bolshevikized the American
republic?
With Hoover’s loosening up on the
order forbidding the slaying of pullets
we may soon expect the usual crop
of spring revivals, “with dinner on the
ground” to blossom forth.
♦ HOW ABOUT IT. ♦
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Are you playing the game of life the
way you think it should he
played?
Are you ready to face the world right
now, eyes forward and un
afraid?
Are you going straight for the goal
you seek? Are you going hear
up and true?
You ought to know, for some little
tads, somewhere have their eyes
on you.
Some little tads have their eyes on
you; they are w’atching the way
you go.
They ar e hoping they may grow up
like you. Do you, when the
lights are low
And the day is going and all the west
is red with the setting sun—
Do you in summing the day’s fight up
approve of the things you’ve
done?
When you are tempted to do some
thing you know in your soul
is wrong,
Something you’d hate for the world
to know, are you in that mo
ment strong
I hope you are, for you ought to be;
I hope you are straight and
true;
Because you know, there are loving
hearts, brimful of their faith
in you.
And the little tads in the days to
come, when they have been
tempted sore
Will give a thought to the man they
knew back in the days of
yors.
Will say: “He wouldn’t have done
this thing!” And will go straight
and true,
Fast the hurtful thing with their eye
steadfast, and a strength that’s
the strength of you!
Aye, they will fight with the strength
of you, when something would lead
them wrong,
It you are strong in your fight today
you will help them to be
strong
Through ah of the years they are go
,ing to live. Our boys who are
off to the war
Are in the battle for men like
you. Are you worth the fight,
ing for?
Are you the man that you ought to
be. Are you brave and strong
and true?
Oh, some of the boys who are grow
ing up have got their eyes
on you!
And they are hoping to be like you,
as straight. as true, as
strong;
You will have to answer some
where. if some of the boys
go wrong.
—Judd Mortimer Lewis, in The
Houston Post.
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of brass work from tarnishing, and
also to avoid frequent polishing, the
brass should be lacquered with gum
shellac dissolved in rWohol. The lac
quer should be applied with a small i
paint brush. Ten cents worth of it
will lacquer a bedstead.
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