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THE TIMES-RECORDER
Established 1879.
WHS TIMES-RECORDER COMPANY.
(Incorporated.)
Publisher.
Published every afternoon, except
Saturday, every Sunday morning, and
a Weekly (every Thursday).
Entered as second class matter at
at Americus, Ga., under act
Starch 3, 1879.
FRANC MANGUM,
Editor and Manager
( L. H. KIMBROUGH.
' Assistant Business Manager
Subscription Rates,
Daily and Sunday, Five Dollars a
ft ear (in advance).
Weekly, One Dollar a year (In r.d
-tßnce).
OFFICIAL organ fur
U-.ty of Americus
Sumter County
Webster County
Rjutiread Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District.
C. 8. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, Ga., March 25, 191 s.
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| PARAGRAPHICAL!! SPEAKING
The German offensive seems to be
right offensive, indeed.
A man sometimes gets his wisdom
teeth ahead of wisdom.
The separate peace made by Russia
seems to be merely a separate piece
of German intrigue.
It is said that in New York city
tLere is more roof-gardening than war
gardening now being done.
The president has been empowered
to commandeer all timber. Does this
include presidential timber?
The reason why some ladies appear
to be always blushing is that they rub
bed it on well before they left home.
The red strawberry and the tender
turnip now vie with each other as
chief attraction in many Americus
gardens.
It is said that Petrograd is about to
fall, but how it or any other Russian
City can fall any lower we don’t un
derstand.
Germans are acting with such fury
that we suspect that perhaps they'
have been deprived of their beer and
frankfurters.
With the Americans in possession of
a mile of German trenches, will the
Germans still deny there is an Amer
ican army in France?
r
It is said that the salaries of some
inen go entirely on their wives’ backs,
and if that is the case, we just want
to say that some men make mighty
small salaries.
The Beautiful Young Onion that
blooms in the spring, tra la. i ; with us
yet awhile, but, alas, its days are
numbered, and soon its delicious fra
©unce will be missing from the flower
gardens.
Practically all of the supplies ship
ped to the aviation contractors at
Souther Field are being handled by
Spies. He is a clerk at the express
office here, and the other Spies of the
family live in Macon.
Forty-three people heard the At
lanta song book publisher when he
made a so-called senatorial speech at
Marietta last week. This included, of
course, “the male quartette that al
ways accompanies him on his lec
tures. ”
We’ve received eight anonymous
letters giving the name of the cham
pion whittler of Americus and as soon
as we can get somebody to haul the
shavings off. we’re going to arrange a
match between the leading exponents
of this ancient art
The strategic retreat from Mons to
the Marne may yet be repeated in
France. And let us all hope that
when the Allied blow' does fall upon
the Huns their legions may be totally
destroyed, not merely thrown back as
xesulted when Marshal Joffre’s army
fell upon Von Klucfc’s hordes.
A NEW BRAND OF LOYALTY.
Few men will admit that they are j
liars. .Judas .probably satisfied himselt ;
that he acted within his constitutional
rights. Benedict Arnold, living quiet- .
Ily in England on a traitor s gold, <
doubtless had an excellent opinion of
himself. Thieves seldom confess that
they have stolen. Murderers of whose
guilt there was no doubt, have died on
the scaffold, protesting their inno
cence with their last breath.
So we are not surprised that the
Junior senator from Georgia in a pub
lic statement which breathes spite,
venom, meanness and disloyalty.!
;, lures that hT is “just as patriotic
, l
as any American who draws the breat i'
cf life.’*
The truth is that he is so blinded j
by his own personal ego ami political
conceit, and his reason is so warped, ■
that h e does not realize the infamy of ,
his conduct.
Here is the man who has betrayed
j Ids constituents, by deliberately' mis
representing them in the United States
I Senate— here is the man who by' op
posing necessary war legislation on
which his party was almost unanim
ously agreed has naturally contribut
ed to obstructing the progress of the
war—here is the man who by' his ut
terances both on the floor of the Sen
ate. in the press and on the platform,
has tended to incite discontent and
disobedience —here is the man who has
persistently sought to nag any annoy
a great president during the time of
his greatest ordeals, when every ounce
of his energy and intelligence was
needed in behalf of the people of the
country—here is the man who was
elected on the strength of his profes
sion of friendship with the president
quickly- abusing the man whose en
dorsement he had solicited —here is
the man who has deserted his party
and voted with a few “wilful senators,”
one of whom has already been brand
ed by his own state as a traitor.
Here is this man now’ having the
effrontery to attempt to define pa
triotism to the people of Georgia!
Here is the spectacle of a crow try
ing to array himself in the plumage l
of the American eagle!
And this man actually' lays down
the astounding doctrine that he is sub
servient to the president as long as
the president acts as “commander-in
chief of the army and the navy"—real
ly, though, that being an enormous
condescension—but refuses to take any’
orders from the president acting as
commander of the American people!
Doesn’t he know that wars are
no longer won altogether by soldiers
and sailors? Doesn’t he know that
the army at home is just as much of
the military defense as the army in
the field? Doesn't he know that at
this particular time, when the liber
ties of the United States were more in
jeopardy than ever before, that every
loyal citizen is a part of the army re ■
cruited to save the nation and to save
democracy? Doesn’t he know that of
a necessity there must be a leader,
and that by virtue of his position the
president is that leader and is, there
fore. the commander of the people,
entitled to their respect, confidence
and co-operation?
However, he says that he is a better
American than the “misguided men”
who take an opposite view'.
Such Americanism as this, such pa
troitism as his, such loyalty as he pro
fesses, is the kind most admired bv
the Kaiser of Germany, and is the
kind that is despised and abhorred by
every true Amreican who loves his
country better than himself.
WASTE.
! There is much talk about the con
servation of food and fuel, but it
would seem wise to impress upon the
public that the first step toward con
servation is the minimization of
waste.
It is not so much what one eats as
what one casts aside—not so much
what enters the stomach as what fills
the garbage can—that makes for an
increase in the food debit of a na
tion. It is not the warmth derived
from a normal temperature which
makes for fuel shortage, but rather
the coal-laden ashes, unutilized fagots,
chips, paper, etc., which with other
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unused scraps, combine to make an
nc leased demand for fuel.
This is also true of labor. The nec
essity for the conservation of labor i 8
vital —so vital that every adult as
well as every child, should be impress
ed and make it his or her duty to im
press others both by words and deeds
with the paramount importance of re- 1
leasing unnecessary labor.
Young and old, rich and poor, black
and white those who are ailing as well
as those who are strong, need to be
brought to a realization of the eco
nomic fact of the inter-relation of food,
fuel and labor, and to the primary im
portance of conserving, through elim
ination of waste as well as through
other channels, the resources of this
country.
A conservation system which would
irake th e elifnination of waste its cor
nerstone would not only actually save
material, but w’ould contribute toward
a foundation for permanent economic
security.
The frugality of the French is one
of the great war assets of that heroic
nation.
The aeroplane is the new' American
eagle.
WHAT WILL YOU DO?
The soldier must pay in suffering
and death for liberty for you.
What will you pay?
Tire soldier gives up all on earth
except honor to purchase liberty for
you and your country.
What will you give up?
Your loved ones and country and
all on earth that is worth living for
are at stake.
What are you willing to do to save
them?
The murderer and the outrager are
striking dowm your neighbor’s family
and are starting for your loved ones.
The soldier rushes in and offers his
life to sav e them.
What are you willing to do to save
them.
On April 6 the nation will ask for
ah expression of your patriotism. On
that day it will want to know what
you are willing to do to stand behind
the soldier as he goes “over the top.”
It will ask you on that, the first anni
versary of our entrance into war, how
many Liberty bonds, the best security
on earth, you will buy. Do not w'ait
for a long drawn-out campaign, but
Le ready on the opening day to stand
in line, if necessary, to enter your sub
scription.—Manufacturers’ Record.
“THE ONLY ROAD.”
The Manufacturers' Record has
been printing, as its slogan each week,
this sentence:
“The chief business of the Ameri
can people is to win the war.”
But it has now' abandoned that motto
and has adopted a new one. It is:
“Our business is to kill as any Ger
mans as possible before these mur
derers kill us.”
In defense of that argument, The
Record says:
“There is only one way to end this
war, and it is our duty to follow that
day to the best of our ability; and
that way, the only possible way to
save millions of our men and to save
cur country and civilization itself is to
kill German soldiers, and to kill and
keep on killing, for the more quickly
and more fully we kill German sold
iers, the fewer will be the number of
American soldiers they will kill.
Does this seem brutal. It is not.
It is the only road to end this war.
and the old road to follow. *’
Would Go To The Asylum.
Suppose a man came down town
with his trousers half way to his
knees, his socks so thin his ankles
were exposed, his coat and shirt so
low as to show six inches of his neck,
and his clothes so thin he’d be afraid
to take a place in the sun—why-, he’d
l.e arrested!—Americus Times-Record
er. Probably the Times-Recorder is
correct. And the poor fellow would
in all probability be sent to Milledge
ville beore he could make a satisfac
tory explanation of his escapade.—Co
lumbus-Enquirer-Sun.
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.
The
Frogrance
of Orange
Blossoms
is no more pleasing to
the nostrils than the fla
vor of the sun-smacked
California oranges which
makes
ORANGE
CRUSH
at once the most palata
ble and ths most whole
some of fruit drinks.
Risk a nickel on our
recommendation.
5c the Bottle
AMERICUS
Coca-Cola
Bottling Co.
J. T. WARREN, Manager
C. of Ga.Ry
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