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Americus, Georgia, March 8, 1918.
PARAGBAPHICALLV SPEAKING ||
Whenever a woman is in doubt she
powders her nose.
The man behind the hoe at this sea
son is certainly no muck-raker.
Like the boll weevil, the Bolsheviki
is now marching eastward rapidly.
The highest ambition of some men
is to become teh engineer on a taxi
cab.
If there is anything elyse for Lenine
and Trotsky to sign away, it isn’t in
Russia.
Spring is here because the flying
ants are here, ana vice versa, as it
were.
Sonic folks live on the idea that they
should live just as high as they can
get credit.
This “back to the soil” movement is
alright, but it sure does put blisters
cn one’s hands.
With porkless days having been
abolished, we can hear the pigs squeal
ing their delight.
Whenever a man pays alimony
cheerfully, don’t seek an introduction
to hig former wife.
Many a man who admires his wife’s
new hat dreads the day when the mil
linery bill com es in.
If Lenine and Trotzky do resign, it
may be said of them that they finally
did one creditable thing.
The man who has money enough to
own a fine automobile usually has too
much sense to buy one.
Don’t be afraid to confess that you
do not understand the Russian situa
tion. Nobody else does.
The only thing some people raise for
the war is a yell whenever their pock
etbooks ar appetites ar hit.
No. Geraldine, high heels do not
make a woman's skirt shorter. They
measure them from the waist down.
Whenever a paragrapher is short on
material he generally writes bout
women’s skirts which are also short
on material.
The new Republican leaders seem to
think that the war will be easily and
quickly won if there is haromny in the
Republican party.
A certain state having elected a
business man to the senate, it is ex
plained that even the people some
times make mistakes.
So long as the tender snap beanlet
continues to come, the fragrant tur
nip salad is ready for the harvest and
the fmous Georgia hen does her duty
daily, we guess we can worry along
with those wheatless days prescribed
Ly Hoover.
PREACH AND PRACTICE.
It is a pity that there were so few
to hear the stirring addres of Ser
geant Verne Marshall at the Carnegie
library last night.
This young man, after a year and a
half in the ambulance work in France,
chiefly engaged at Verdun, in the
thickest of the bitterest battle of the j
war, has returned to his country to
enlist with the Ameircan troops. At
present he has been detailed t,o speak
in behalf of the various patriotic pro
jects, > 'iCh as thrift stamps, Liberty ;
bonds and food conservation. He is
devoting his fine talent and energy to
the cause entirely to his own expense,
and is arousing the people to a keener
sense of appreciation of their duty
here at home.
Sergeant Marshall makes it emphatic
that this war must won by the men ’
i
and women and children hack in the
I nited States as well as by the young,
men in the trenches. There must be j
a vast co-ordinating system, embrac
ing every person in this country, in
order to effectively prosecute the war
and to eventually triumph. The sold
iers must have ships, ammunition, food
and supplies, and to furnish them with
those things the government must have
l
money and lots of it. The people at I
home must do their part by furnish-'
ing the money, and they can do that
esily enough if they’ wlil invest in
government securities.
It is brought out strikingly by Ser
geant Marshall that the success of this
plan depends on the extent to which
the people subscribe. They must not
merely give their spare change, huC
they must deny themselves. They
must wear less, eat less, spend less,
and take the money thus saved and
lend it to the government for the time
of the war. When one hears of the
awful conditions existing in the battle
areas of France, and learns from a
first-hand observer just what the
American boys are experiencing over
there there is an immediate impulse to
practice everything indicated by the
government as being essential for the
successful carrying on of the war. And
this is a time when it is appropriate
not only to practice, but to preach
v hat you practice.
IT’S UP TO GEORGIA!
The following resolution has been
adopted by the Wisconsin legasla
ture:
“The people of the state of Wis
consin always have stood and al
ways will stand squarely behind
the national government in all
things which are essential to
bringing the present war to a
successful end, and we condemn
Senator Robert M. LaFollette and
all others who have failed to see
the righteousness of our nation’s
cause, who have failed to support
our government in matters vital to
the winning of the war, and we
denounce any attitude or utter
ance of theirs which has tended
I to incite sedition among the peo
ple of our country nd to injure
Wisconsin’s fair name before the
free people of the world.”
The state with probably the largest
number of German-speaking citizens,
has denounced its own senator for his
unpatriotic attitude and utterances!
A rebuke, a vote of censure from a
state legislature, visited upon a Unit
ed States senator, i s rare, and, fortu
nately, it is rarely r deserved. The
general assembly of Wisconsin did not
confine itself specifically to Senator
LaFollette, but included “all others
who fail to see the righteousness of
our country’s cause,” one of whom is
the junior senator from this state. ..
If Wisconsin, a state so intimately
associated with German influence, can
excoriate its own senator and the jun
ior senator from Georgia, surely Geor
gia itself should do so—and will do
so!
We doubt not that the legislature of
Georgia, when it meets this summer,
will immediately pass a vote of cen
sure on thesentor who has humiliated
his state and proven unworthy of the
confidence his constituents had in him
However, merely a rebuke from the
legislature of this state will not be
adequate. It will require a stinging,
overwhelming, decisive condemnation
expressive of te deep indignation of
the whole people of the state, sentenc
ing this unworthy official to pe-petua!'
THE AMERICUS TIMES<ECORDE!t
COMPLETE DEGRADATION.
It is not merely Russian territory
and Russian populations that Lenine
and Trotsky surrendered to Germany
in the Brest-Litovsk peace convention.
They surrendered the professed princi
ples of the Bolsheviki as well and
pledged themselves to muzzle the rev
olution.
Section 2 of the Brest-Litovsk con
vention (provides that —
The contracting nations will re
frain from all agitation or provo
cation against other signatory na
tions.
And section 3
Russia undertakes to refrain
from all interference in the inter
, nal dffairs of these territories in
agreement with their populations.
The appeal to the proletariat is still
ed; yet it was by the appeal to the
proletariat that Lenine and Trotsky
justified the policy toward Germany
that they have pursued since the gov
ernment of Russia fell into their
hands.
They would not fight for liberty
against Germany autocracy. They
would not permit. Russian workmen to
manufacture munitions for use against
German autocracy. They professed to
be armed with superior weapons. Thev
intended to resist Germany by arous
ing the German proletariat and bring
ing it to the rescue of the revolution.
Even their harshest critics believed (
taat there might be method in this 1
madness and that if there was any
honesty in their undertakings this was
the point at which they might be sin
cere.
All that i s finished now’. When thev
came to the settlement, they abandon
ed the right of appeal to the German
and Austrian proletariat as lightly as
they abandoned Russian soil to the in
vader—as lightly as they left helpless
Armenians to the “self-determination”
of the murderous Turk They pledged
themselves even to suppress any agi
tation inimical to the interests of Ger
many and her partners.
Mr. Taft cites the example of Rus
.-ia as a warning against the danger of
le-ing diplomacy as a means of making
peace. But what took place at Brest-
I
Litovsk was not diplomacy than the I
treason of an army commander could ,
‘oe described as a military operation. I
It was even more than the betrayal of
a nation, for the Bolsheviki have no
sympathy with nationality, and might
escape conviction on that count in the
indictment. There is no such defense ■
for their abject submission to the
Junker edict against free speech and
against the apipeal to the proletariat
That involves the final surrender of
everything in which Lenine and Trot
' ky have ever professed faith.
The political degradation to which
Russia has been subjected is equalled,
only by the moral degradation of teh
Bolshevik leaders.—New York World.
TREATING ’EM AIL ALIKE.
The national food administration has
made an important change in the flour
I sale rule by requiring all persons
; hereafter, wdiether farmers or city
I i
, folks, to purchase an equal amount of
other cereals in buying flour.
This is obviously intended to in
crease the use of the other cereals and
■ tc decrease the consumption of flour.
’ To make this plan easier of enforce
ment there has been a let-up on the
meat rule. There is now’ only one
meatless day a week—Tuesday.
j Our government knows the food ;
j conditions and necessities, and when
i
I e'er rules such as these are promul
| gated every good citizen should loy
ally respond. If it were not necessary,
it is certain that the government would
never prescribe any such regulations.
I and if they are necessary at all they
are vitally so.
The people in the country may pro
test some against the new rule, but if
they stop to consider they will realize
the equty of it.
(political exile and ostracizing him
from the society of all loyal citizens.
The second Wednesday in Septem
ber, the day of the primary, is the day
scheduled for this to take place.
Wisconsin is only ahead of Georgia
it: that it has had the opportunity of J
i i
expressing itself.
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