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PAGE TWO THE TIMES-RECORDER ESTABLISHED 1879. VMS TIMES-RECORDER COMPANY, (Incorporated.) Publisher. Published every afternoon, except ,Ba.turday, every Sunday morning, and ks a Weekly (every Thursday). Entered as second class matter at pestoffice at Americus, Ga., under act of March 3, 1879. FRANC MANGUM, Editor and Manager. I L. H. KIMBROUGH, 1 Assistant Business Manager. Subscription Rates. Dally and Sunday, Five Dollar* a fear (in advance). Weekly, One Dollar a year (in ad fance). 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 | Agent l G. COUNCIL, Pres’t. INC. 1891 T. E. BOLTON. Asst. Cashier C. M. COUNCIL, Vlce Pres. and Cashier JOE M. Brian, Asst. Casmer Planters Bank of Americus CAPITAL. SURPLUS & PROFITS $240-000.00 Resources Over One and a quarter Million Dollars We wanfto help you in * 2 crease your agricultural or ffiWWWiel WKSiI commercial efficiency. SSt |i ■ ■ 1 -r George Washington says: ‘ Thrift, when it begins to nflls ta^e root ’ i s l a Pl an t3of rapid growth.” As a first step in thrift, why not open an account with us, either commercial or savings? Our quarter of a century of experience is at your disposal. » Williams-Niles Co. Hardware A complete line of Automo bile Tires, Tubes, Blow-Out Patches, Cement, Rose Air Pumps, Signal Horns, Radia tor Neverleak, Carbon Re mover, Wrenches for Ford Cars, Etc. Cooking Stoves, Ranges, Wood and Coal Heaters Phone 706 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.