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OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR:
City of Americus
Sumter County
Webster County
■tailroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District.
C. 8. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, Georgia, March 24. 191*>.
j PARAGBAPHICAUY SPEAKING
Alimony club dues are the only ones
exempt from taxation.
Even at that a woman’s skirt is
often longer than her mind.
A Mann lives in Mobile. Ala., but
that’s nothing to boast about after all.
The tender turnip green is still
queen of the harvest in this neck of
the woods.
We’re kinder short today on short
skirt paragraphs, but we’re n<> shorter
than the skirts.
Isn’t it exaseprating when a pretty
girl nearly overturns her chair across
the street—and doesn’t!
Another good thin g about rice flour
is that the cook can save some of it
to powder her face with.
If women could only keep secrets
l’k e they do old love-letters, what a
good old world this would be.
Our observation is that there is no
better way for a fat man to reduce his
flesh than to do his own cooking.
A scientist has just decided a cauli
flower is a vegetable. And we had
thought all along it was a pickle!
A woman doesn’t really care what
numer shoe she wears, but a cons
cientious clerk will always say “it’s
a three.
"■ " I ————" ■■ •
Our position simply is that a girl’s
shoes are too tall when only she or
her mother can tie the strings with
propriety.
The Kaiser sent out invitations
to prominent people to witness the be
ginning of the great drive. We were
not invited.
Mrs. Peavish says that sometimes (
Mr. Peavish gets so wrought uip over
the situation he threatens to puy up
and change grocers.
And as far as we know, there was
never a domestic scientist who felt
like the goddess of wisdom while
washing the dishes.
—— ,
We’re going to cultivate a certain
lady of our acquaintance—she’s cul
tivating a big patch of English peas,
and that's what we’re after.
A man who ought to know says corn
meal make splendid “stuffing'’ for pin
cushions. And now we guess he’ll be
eating pin-cushions after awhile.
Os course we may be wrong, but per
sonally we do not like to listen to an
orator who seems to proceed on the
theory that gloom will win the war.
war.
I ■■ ■ !■ _ - -W
A man at Hawkinsville says he
caught a cat-fish on a set hook, and
that the fish weighed 18 3-4 pounds.
We cheerfully admit, of course, that
that is a pretty good story, but we
respectfully submit that the season is
rather young for fish—and for fish
stories—of that size.
AX APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF SUMTER COUNTY.
The Sumter County Council of Defense makes this earnest appeal
to the people—and by the people, we mean the men, the women and the
children—of Sumter county:
Attend the patriotic meeting at the First Methodist church Tuesday
afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.
We have called this meeting for one reason, and one purpose only.
We deem it necessary to stimulate the patriotic sentiment of this county.
Without mincing words, without apologies, and for the sake of the
truth, we make this candid statement—pariotism has not been sufficiently
demonstrated in Sumter county!
There are some people in Sumter county who do not realize that
we are living in the most decisive hour in all the history of civilization!
They do not realize that a war is on! They apparently do not appreciate
the fact that this is a time for sacrifice.
We have told these facts to Dr. Jones, and we have asked him to
come here and make an address on the war, along the line of informing
the people of the critical state of the times. If you miss this address, you
will be doing yourself and your community an injustice.
Do you know that all around the state Americus has been branded
as lacking in loyalty? Isn't that an awful stigma to rest on this city and
this county?
This meeting, then, is for the purpose of publishing to the world that.
Americus and Sumter county do know the war is on, and for the purpose of
giving the people an opportunity of learning more about the actual facts.
We appeal to every public official—to the mayor and council, the
county commissioners, the members of the board of education, the school
teachers, the ministers of the gospel, the merchants, the business and pro
fessional men, the workers, the thinkers, the women and the children—we
appeal to every man, woman and child in this county to make an effort to
attend this meeting at the First Methodist church Tuesday afternoon at 3
o’clock.
It is your solemn duty to be there.
Your country needs you—it needs you now more than ever before —
and it is your duty to learn why andhew you are needed.
(Signed): COUNCIL OF DEFENSE FOR SUMTER COUNTY.
W W. Dykes,
Mrs. Frank Harrold,
E J. McMath,
G W. Nunn,
I'ranc Mangum, Chairman.
THE WORLD IN THE BALANCE.
The great German drive is a failure!
Even the retreat of the Allies on a
limited front, the loss of twenty or.
thirty thousand prisoners and several
i
hundred big guns, and the destruction
of an immense amount of property—
even all that does not spell German
victory!
The impressive fact is that the Ger
mans have failed to break thorugh
and demolish the Allied line.
And at what a sacrifice, at what
enormous expense, this comparatively '
small gain has been achieved!
Undoubtedly, the Germans have
spent thousands of lives in this des-!
perate effort to wrench control from '
the Allies on French soil.
Personally supervised by the Em
peror himself, and by the high officials
of the Prussian army, the drive is
terrible in its proportions and results,
but withal the outstanding feature is
i
that the Allies are still holding to
gether. Ther e ha s been no demorali
zation, no giving away, such as the
Germans evidently contemplated.
With all this in progress, how- true
it is how deplorably sad, that the
people of this section of the country
do not appreciate the immensity of
the stiuation. They do not seem to
know that they are living in one of
the decisive periods of the world’s
history. Heretofore sixteen decisive
battles" have been enumerated by his
tcrians, but not one of them compares
with the significance of the present
awful combat. On the result of this
battle—for even in its stupendous as
pect it is. after* all. one big battle—
there hinges the fate of the world, of
civilization of humanity!
It is enough to live in such a
time, when everything that is worth
while for us is literally at stake, but
it is appalling that the actual fact is
! unappreciated.
The situation in France today should
awake every- red-blooded American to
the true state of affairs!
An Americus man has been refused
in marriage because he's in Class 1-A.
And from this we infer the girls no
longer wish to marry A-l men.
“Nobody loves a fat man," somebody
has said, but we admit we are sorry
for the poor creatures as we see some
of them trudging along the streets on
warm afternoons.
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
SCHOOL WAR GARDENS.
The United States School Garden
Army is beginning to mobilize.
I The whole plan has been carefully
( worked out and so far there hasn’t
' been a single hitch in the programme.
' The Secretary of the Interim
through tiie Bureau of Education is
i
| calling upon state and county superln
Undents of school and also upon the
governors of the different cities, towns,
j villages and suburban committees, and
asking everyone of these people to fall
in line and get to work in the greatest
| practical volunteer csampagn that has
been started since the war began.
The Germans organized their garden
army years ago and just because they
did do that very thing they have been
able to laugh at the rest of the world
for so long.
For back of every bullet and behind
every shell and under and over every
I cloud of poionous gas and running ev
ery submarine and directing every
aeroplane is a man who must keep up
. his energies with food.
We might as well send our men to
the the trenches to face cannons and
I
airships and poison gas and explosives
dresses in a suit of pajamas with notli-
■ ing but their bare hands for weapons,
i'
as to send our army overseas without
enough provisions to keep them not
only alive but in fighting trim when
>
they get there.
Where are w-e going to get the food
Jto send them?
‘; We have just on e storehouse from
which to dray, and that storehouse is
in the fertile fields and the rich har-
i vests of our own country.
- Our troops abroad need flour and
j sugar and coffee and tea and corn
I and meat we must send them these
‘things or be ready to bow our heads
i under the German heel.
There is no use blinking the fact
a minute longer; the whole thing
comes right down to the question
ot bread and meat, and enough of it
If we send that we raise abroad what
shall be done at home
This is the time to begin to consid
!er these things. We have been blind
| and dull of wit, and deaf and indiffer
ent long enough.
From one end of this country to the
ether the people are beginning to
realize what this question of food
means. No wonder that the United
States School warden Army idea has
taken such a splendid hold, not only in
the imagination but of the stern, prac-
tical faculties of this whole country.
Five million school children mobo
hzed into an army with officers and
privates and sergeants—with drill and
hard work and great rewards and
splendid service.
Aren’t you interested?
You will be interested some day
when that boy of yours comes home
with a chevron on his sleeve or your*
girl is made a First Sergeant and
wears a badge which tells the world'
that she is ready to do her bit for her
country and her country’s (Tag.
Why not interest yourself personal
ly in this matter today.
Why not make this a part of your
duty to Uncle Sam?
A COLUMN OF CLIPPINGS
Uobody Can Deny.
Mangum declares the merchant who
doesn’t advertise is in the class with
a bride-groom during the party sea
son before the ceremony. He is there
all right, but he is seldom ever heard
of, and people ipay very little atten
tion to him.—Griffin News and Sun.
And we don’t suppose that any one
will be so bold as to deny the truth
of the declaration.—Columbus Enquir
er-Sun.
You’re Right.
If a fellow, or two fellows or three
or more fellows, should be running
for the United States Senate, and be
cognizant of the fact that as long as
they are in the race they are in the
way of a real patriotic American be
ing elected, thereby aiding and abet
ting another candidate who is regarded
as bein inimical to the administration
and the government, there these fel
lows who are in the way occupying a
position that might be construed as
being pro-German? We submit the
guestion to Franc Mangum, and we are
willing to accept his judgment in
the matter.—Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
This Is Interesting.
The following is from the Greens
boro Herald-Journal of the current
week, is interesting and self-explana
tory :
The Herald-Journal regrets that it
published the announcement of the
coming of Hon. William D. Upshaw’ and
his quartette to the Greensboro Bap
tist church without first consulting
the pastor, Rev. L. E. Dutton. We
did not question the matter, when sent
in by Mr. Upshaw. However, Mr.
Dutton resented the attempt of Mr.
Upshaw to make his Sunday morning
service a political advertising scheme
When the announcement appeared, Mr.
Dutton asked from w’hat source w« se
cured the information that Mr. Up
shaw and his quartette would appear
in his church. When informed that
the news was sent in by Mr. Upshaw
himself, Mr. Dutton immediately wrote
Mr. Upshaw not to come. Mr. Dut
ton's positions is that he would not
permit any candidate for a high of
fice to use his church for an adver
tising stunt. The Herald-Journal will
be more careful in the future when
an attempt is made to use its columns
by preacher-politicians to mix church
ana politics.
C. of Ga.Ry
THE RIGHT WAY*'
Trains Arrive.
From Columbus
(Seminole) *12:05 a m
F rom Jacksonville
(Seminole) • • 3:40 a in.
From Atlanta-Macon *5:19 a m
From Albany * 6:10 a m
From Columbus !! 10:00 a nF
From Columbus ! 11:45 a m
From Macon * 2:11 p mi
From Montgomery-Albany * 2:11 p ni'
F'iom Columbus . ••_ ! 7:15 p ni ■
<'rom Macon * 7:30 p m
From Montgomery-Albany *10:45 p m
For Jacksonville
(Seminole) *12:05 a m
For Chicago (Seminole) •• * 3:40 a m 1
For Montgomery-Albany ...*5:19 a m
For Macon-Atlanta * 6:37 a m
For Columbus ! 7:00 a m
For Montgomery-Albany ...*2:11 p m
For Columbus *3:00 p m
For Albany •• *7:30 p m
For Macon-Alanta *10:45 p m
•Daily. /Except Sunday. !!Sunday!
only. GEO. ANDERSON, I
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GRINDINC THE GRAIN I
■
Does it pay to grind grain for feed?
Generally speaking it does. From 6
to 17 per cent of the whole grain fed
is undigested, and when this loss can
be saved by grinding it will pay ev
ery farm with stock to use the grind
er We have entered an era of high
priced feed, the end of which no
man can foresee, and the higher the
price the more this 6 to 17 per cent
saved through grinding means dollars.
Nature intended grain foi reproduc
tive purposes rather than for livestock
to eat, and protected each kernel with
a relatively insoluble resistant sub
stance which the feeding experts have
proven that in some instances the di
gestive juices never penetrate.
The amount of saving made through
grinding grain or feed depends upon
the kind of animals to which it is fed
and on the kind of grain. Young ani
mals of all breeds do best on ground
grain, because their mastication is
never through. Old animals do best
on ground grain because their teeth
are poor and they swallow a great
deal of grain whole and never digest
it. Hard-worked animals do best on
ground grain feed. Under the head
of hard-warked animals come horses,
milk cows and and animals fed heavily
for fattening or for growth. The high
er the price of grain the greater the
saving mode by grinding corn, oats |
barley and even alfalfa. The leading
authorities on feeds and fedings are
Henry of Wisconsin, Jordan of New
York, Wool of California, and others.;
Jordan reports three experiments'
with horses. One lot was fed ground ;
corn and oats and another unground '
grain from the same bin. The re
sults showed that 14 per cent less
ground feed got the same result as
with the full quantity of the whole
grain. Dr. Henry says:
“Small grains, such as wheat, rye
and kafir, give best results when
ground and barley should never be I
SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 1918. ’
' | fed unless ground or rolled."
;! His experiments back up his asser
j tion. Test lots of steers were fed —
( one lot with whole corn, one with
ground corn and the third with ground
corn and ground corncobs. Seven
hogs followed each lot of steers. The
i hogs with the steers fed whole corn
increased in weight 16.7 pounds to
> each 100 pounds of com fed to the
steers. The hogs following those fed
ground corn only made 0.7 of a pouna
gain on each 100 pounds of corn meal
fed, and the hogs following the steers
- on meal and ground corncobs made
i an even less gain.
Grinding grain is an especially good
s practice when feeding ensilage be
cause the gums of the animals some
t’mes become tender, particularly if
the ensilage shows acidity. Grinding
1 giain gives the maximum efficiency in
i assimilation of nutriment. Not only
I does grinding the grain increase its
value, but the feed grinder works up
I a great deal of low-value feedstuffs
> that would otherwise be total waste.
W e are raising some corn and we
1 are going to grow a great deal more
of it, so whatever we may say about
corn feeding holds good here. With
1 the feed grinder available it is a
waste of both time and feed to shuck
the corn and shell it. The shuck con
tains feed value and so do the cobs.
I The cobs are rich in carbohydrates,
j analysis showing 44.8. Grinding husks
and cobs along with the cobb adds
o per cent to the value of the corn
meal. A pound of corn-and-cob meal
j is equal to pound of cornmeal.—Den
j ver Field and Farm
The foregoing reprint is copied
from The Price Current Grain Re
porter.
Grinding the grain wil help your
STOCK earn dividends.
We’ll do the grinding.
FEED PLANT,
Hill St., and S. A. L. R. R.
J Ralston Cargill.