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THE TIMES-RECORDER
BBTABLISHED 187».
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f March 3, 1879.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR:
City of Americus
Sumter County
Webster County
•ta'lroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District.
U. B. Court. Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, Georgia, March 22, 191*.
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| PARAGBAPHICALLY SPEWING"
“Roosters and hens, roosters and
hens,
Try to raise chickens without losing
your friends.”
Camouflage—twin beds.
Which had you rather do—dig in a
Victory garden or dig in the trenches’
A man gets all wrought up over this
food situation—every time the grocer
sends in his bill.
A lot of men have absolutely quit
drinking, simply because they can’t
get anything to drink.
As long as a woman can squeeze a
46-inch waist into a number 32 corset
she will never admit she’s getting fat.
When a girl insists on tying her
own shoe strings, we know for a fact
that she is absolutely indifferent to
men.
It is said that pretty soon we’ll be
using rice powder. For that matter,
the ladies are already using it—on
their faces!
Whenever a woman don’t want to,
believe anything, there is no use prov
ing it to her. She wouldn't believe
even then.
The woman who stays away from
home all day playing bridge should
not kick when her husband stays out
at night playing poker.
It’s funny how a man will insure
his life for fifteen thousand dollars in
favor of a wife who probably doesn’t
think he is worth thirty cents.
Why is it that a man will’ dance of
tener with some other man’s wife than
he will with his own, who is, perhaps,
the better dancer of the two?
A girl can go to cooking school for
four years and neved learn how to
cook, but four weeks of married life
is sufficient to make her a queen of
the kitchen.
How much stocking should appear
between the hem of the skirt and the
top of the shoe? This is a vital ques
tion, that we think Congress ought to
settle at once.
There are some men with blistered
hands and aching backs who devoutly
feel that it takes a great deal of pa
triotism to get up at sunrise and
work a war garden.
“A woman who wears twelve dol
lar boots and six dollar stockings
should not be criticised if her skirt
is a trifle short”, says The Americus
Tiems-Recorder. Nobody in Griffin
i« criticizing her.—Griffin News and
Sun.
Maybe if the editor of The Americus
Times-Recorder would change his
form of expression when writing abbut
short skirts he would be able to make
peace with the ladies who have de
clared w’ar on him. Instead of refer
ring to the skirts as short, scanty,
flimsy and transparent, why not say
the wearers are Hooverizing as to
clothes?—Dalton Citizen.
• PROVE OUR PATRIOTISM!
The comng o f Rev. Ashby Jones, of
Atlanta, to Americus next Tuesday
under the auspices of the Council of
Defense, is an event of importance
to the people of the county.
No matter what the occasion, it is >
worth while to hear Dr. Jones, who
is one of the most eloquent speakers
the South has produced in many years.
At this time, it is doubly mportant to
hear him. He is going to tell the.
people of the county some facts about
the critical state of the times that they |
ought to know. He is going to co-op
erate to his utnyost with the local
Council of Defense in its effort to
arouse the people to greater patriotic
depths. The imperative necessity for
buying Liberty bonds ad war savings
stamps and for observing food conser-'
vation and the various other patriotic
movements will be demonstrated as
forcefully as words will permit.
Every public official, every teacher,
every mother, every club woman, ev
ery’ man who wants to do his share in j
this tremendous crisis, every person {
who is loyal, whether old or young, |
should be at this meeting, and should |
testily to their earnestness by their j
presence. It is a tribute of respect to'
which Dr. Jones is entitled, and it is |
in keeping with the purpose of the,
meeting. j
To be perfectly candid, the word
has been disseminated about the state j
that Americus has not shown its loy
alty. and if this meeting s not a suc
cess in point of attendance there will i
be even further basis for the stigma. |
I
Americus is patriotic, Americus is de
termined to stand shoulder to shoul
der with the other loyal people of the
state, and the fact should be im
pressively demonstrated Tuesday af
ternoon.
TRUE CITIZENSHIP.
Much as we dislike to admit it, there
still exists a distinct apathy toward
the war on the part of a great many
people in various parts of the country
The reason for this is even deeper than
constitutional pacifism or pro-Ger
manism based upon explainable blood
or mental association. The fact is,
although we did not realize it until
recently, the average citizen of this
country has not had instilled in him
real responsibility in and to his gov
ernment. The extreme development of
the democratic idea in America and
the ultra-political nature of our form
of government has resulted in the al
most total disappearance of the appre
ciation by the individual of what the
government means to him.
The changing of this condition is
possibly the most serious problem flac
ing the United States today, outside
of winning the war. It involves a com
plete readjustment and revitalizing of
our methods of civic instruction. This
work must start in the schools of the
lowest grade. Many men who have
had the advantage of collegiate in
struction in political economy, and
even the influence of the discussion of
these matters in high school debating
societies, appreciate the problem. It
must be remembered, however, that
by far the greater majority of boys
who later make up the citizenry of the
nation leave school after .passing
through only the most elementary
grades.
The National Security League, or
ganized at the start of the war as a
preparedness (propaganda and now de
voting its entire efforts to the awaken
ing of the people to a realization of
the meanings of war and the menace
of defeat, has undertaken a nation
wide campaign on this question of
true citizenship which is worthy of
{attention and support. It has enlist
ed the co-oiperation of state, county
and city superintendents of school in
all parts of the country to make daily
instruction on the war part of actual
school tuition. The league has also
obtained the release to it on full pay
by the boards of trustees of a num
ber of the largest colleges and uni
versities in the country of a corps of
professors who are to constitute a
“National Patriotic Education Facul
ty” to carry on this work in the broad
er field. These men will create a sort
of peripatetic university, journeying
personally into all parts of the coun-
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
NEED FOR FIRING SQUAD.
It must have occurred to a great
many people, in reading the newspaper
accounts of the lenient method adopt
ed by the government authorities in
dealing with the sipy question, that the
plying of this trade by a German or
German sympathizer is far safer than
service in the army of the Kaiser.
The most serious penalty imposed
I so far has been against an officer of
j th e United States army who volun
tarily announced that he could not doj
(justice to himself or his men in lead
‘ ing them against his relatives and
friends fighting on the German side.
A man who is convicted of being a
leader in the spy plots against Ameri
can lives and property is given a
prison sentence less than that usual
ly meted out to an embezzling clerk.
Other men, engaged in subterranean(
{ efforts which might result in the kill-i
ing of more American boys than could 1
be accomplished by an entire German (
, j
j regiment are (pleasantly interned in
( quarters where they are provided with
creature comforts unknowm to the
young men who are upholding the
j Stars and Stripes in No Man’s Land.
The reason for this state of affairs
lis hard to appreciate. The country is
I at war and war is not a “civil” matter.
I A man who conspires to place a bomb
’ in an American troop-ship or a vessel
carrying much needed supplies to our
Allies is warring against this country
as much (even more, we believe) as
the private or officer in the German
| ranks who is exposed to American
I bullets. Why, then, should we treat
these vipers as offenders against the
civil law? Let’s order out the firing
i scuad!
FLYNG FSHES.
Everybody has seen a flying fish.
Sometimes when it can catch its prey
by swiftly and momentarily leaping
cut of the water, it does so. Again
it will emerge and be visible for a sec
ond, leaving its native element for no
apparent reason whatever.
n the (political sea there are also,
and always, flying fish. Whenever a
bait may be seen above the surface, a
flock of flying fish will frequent the
vicinity. One by one, sometimes two
or three at a time, they will flash
in the open, and then disappear as
swiftly into the obscurity and into the
murky depths from which they came.
They are attracted by the bait, which
is ever too far beyond their reach, too
big for them to seize; but they make
one feeble, flickering nibble.
These flying fish are among the
smaller denizens of the deep, and in
the political sea they are in the min
now class. They are harmless, they
1 are numerous, and they are interesting
only as curious phenomena. It fur-
I
' rushes a little amusing sport to see
1 them flit in the open for a second
but when the big fish, the sure enough
' big-finned boys, ppear on the scene,
these little fellows are lost to sight.
! They dive 1 still deeper, for safety.
»
So in this senatorial race, as in
’ nearly all campaigns for all public of
flees, there are—or have been—a few
" flying fish. Short-lived in their ca
’ reer. and now that the whale of the
candidate, in the jterson of W. J. Har-
• ris, is swimming serenely on a placid
surface, with the current running
strong in his direction, the breezes fav-
• orable. and the skies blue, these flying
1 fish pale into insignificance and are
• forgotten. They have had their brief
second, and must make room for those
who by reason of size and strength
! naturally command space and atten
tion
f
Our best wishes of the springtime
are extended to the kind lady at Cobb
w ho presented us with a beautiful and
1 fragrant bouquet of Beautiful Young
Onions. They were as pretty and as
refreshing as the rose of Sharon and
1 smelled like the spices from Araby
the blest.
try to spread this thought of the ne
cessity of awakening the citizenship
ct the country to responsibility in its
government. More power to the Na
tional Security league and may the
nation quickly realize the importance
o f its work!
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| Agents wanted
JOHN
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10 BIG
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Writes a Letter
Read what they say;
H. 0. Jones Medicine Co.,
Americus, Ga.
Gentleman: We have used
and are using your Balsam, of
Benzoin for cuts, sprains,
bruises, wire cuts, galled should
ers nd sores of various kinds
among our stock and we feel no
hesitancy in recommending it to
large horse and mule owners
and dealers
JOHN ROBINSON’S SHOWS,
By Claud Orton. Boss Hostler.
Large stock owners and deal
ers should not be without this
valuble remedy.
Equally good for man and
household purposes. Call for it
by name, JONES BALSAM OF
BENZOIN.
For sale by druggists and
dealers everywhere.
C .I’. DAVIS
Dental Surgeon.
Orthodontia, Pyorrhea.
Residence Phone 316. Office Phone 318
Allison Building.
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Your old Automobile Tires
and Tubes. Bring them
to us for repairs.
Our Steam Vulcanizing
Plant is at your service.
Every job we turn out is
completed by an expert
workman.
Time will demonstrate
the wisdom of bringing
your vulcanizing to us.
G. A. & W, G.
TURPIN
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From Columbus
(Seminole) *12:05 a m
From Jacksonville
(Seminole) • • 3:40 a m
f rom Atlanta-Macon *5:19 a m
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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
FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1918.
