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PAGE TWO THE TIMES-RECORDER BBTABLISHED 187». yW TIMES-RECORDER COMPANY, (Incorporated.) Publisher. Published .very afternoon, except Saturday, every Sunday morning, and M a Weekly (every Thursday). Entered as second class matter at postofflce at Americus, Ga.., under act f March 3, 1879. FRANC MANGUM, Editor and Manager. L. H. KIMBROUGH, Assistant Business Manager. Subscription Rates. Daily and Sunday, Five Dollars a tear (in advance). Weekly, One Dollar a year (in nd jrance). ______ 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*. ■ - - -*• 1 I 1 " | 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! w IW > 'ii HIN M BECOMES (LIKE PICTURE} | Fluffy, Soft, Silky, Long | Using Herolin POMADE HAIR DRESSING. H Pleasantly perfumed,not stickyorsummy H Herolin stimulates and nourishes the M roots of the hair causing nappy, coarse, Eg stubborn, kinky or short hair to grow S soft, long, silky, easy to manage, so you 9 can do it up in any style. Removes DAN ES DRUFF and Stops ITCHING SCALP. IM Don’t befooled. Be sure you get Herolin. Sold by Drug Stores or t-q SEND 25 CENTS (stamps or coin) for a big boa HEROLIN MEDICINE CO., Atlanta, Georgia | Agents wanted JOHN ROBINSON’S 10 BIG SHOWS 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. Don’t Thro w Awav • 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 C. of Ga.Ry THE RIGHT WAY*' Trains Arrive. 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