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THE TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 1871.
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• f March 3, 1879.
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OFFICIAL ORGAIf iCR:
City of Americus
Sumter County
Webster County
a .Ciroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District
S. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, Georgia, March 29, 191 S
PARftGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING |
Why don’t they deslare a paragraph
less day?
A woman gets mad if her husband
doesnt get mad when she gets mad.
The reason why some girls object to
marrying soldiers is that their com
plexions do not match with khaki.
Th e worst thing about owing a man
■some money is that you are bound to
meet him on every street corner.
k A woman never wears a very, very
short skirt, unless she has a perfect,
understanding of what she is doing.
Which is worse, for a cook to leave
you without warning, or for one to
leave you without any clean dishes?
The people who take this war most
seriously are those who do not stand
around telling how it ought to be
run.
Trotsky now wants universal mili
tary service, probably so that the Rus.
sians will make good German sold
iers.
There’s something wrong, it seems to
us. You can get plenty of coal in the
summer, and all the ice you want in
the winter.
If we should ever meet th e Kaiser
face to face, we wouldn’t give a rip
whether there were any ladies pres
ent or not.
f- - .
Whenever a man admits that his
wife is not perfect, then she begins to
complain that he doesn't love her like
he used to.
It may be more blessed to give than
to receive, but if given his choice a
man will nearly always take the re
ceiving end.
The protective season for hens ends
after April 30. So we say to the hens,
if you have any laying to do. prepare
to do it now!
A man does not think anything when
his wife powders her face and nose,
tut just let him do it and she gets sus
picious right away.
The only complaint about food that
Gen. Pershing has had was that the
cook didn't get enough Over here it
is quite the opposite.
When subscribers call up and com
plain that their paper hasn’t come,
we know then that they appreciate the
paper. Otherwise, we can't always
sometimes tell!
The fact that man is the only ani
mal that uses tobacco is no argument
Ke is also the only animal that prays
cn Sunday and does his wickedness on
the other six days of the week
The Macon News say that "the jun
ior senator from Georgia’’ could "not
have lived to see worse days.” We
don’t agree. His worst days will come
in September when the primary is
held and the thousands of patriotic
citizens of Georgia send him back to
a shameful solitude.
ONLY ONE OF HIS KIND.
A newspaper man from Sparta, nam
ed George M. Moore, has been denied
bis appeal for exemption from army
service, and has been iplaced in Class
One.
He applied for exemption on the
ground that as a newspaper man he
was more needed at home than in the
army—tills 25-year old self-styled edi
tor of a once-a-week newspaper.
The weekly newspaper man is serv
ing a great purpose. There are few
more atriotic than the average week
ly editor. There are few who do more
gratuitous work, and do it more
cheerfully, than the .weekly editor. As
a rule, they are leaders of patriotic
thought in their communities, and
they respond to every appeal the gov- [
eminent makes of them.
This young man Moore is the first
to seek to evade the army service--
the first in Georgia, at any rate, of
whom we have heard. We trust he
will b e the last. Georgia cannot af
ford to publish more than one of his
kind to the world; and the fact that
out of about two hundred he is the
only one making such a factitious, fee
ble and preposterous effort to escape
military service is really a tribute to
the character of the Georgia press in
general.
The sooner this George B. Moore is
clad in khaki and sent to an army
camp the sooner his community will
have an editor more alive to his obli
gations to his country. Once in the
ranks, we hope and believe, he will
learn that he did himself, his com
munity and his newspaper brothers an
injustice in seeking to avoid his mlli-)
I
tary duty.
ALONE IN HIS SHAME.
‘‘The junior senator from Geor
gia was the only senator who vot
ed for his amendment.”
Even his colleague voted against it.
The amendment provided that auto
matically every man reaching the age
of thirty-one should be exempt from
military service.
The amendment, if adopted, would
have had the immediate effect of cur
tailing to an enormous extent the milt-;
tary strength and resources of the
United States.
And that, too, at a time when it
seems that every ounce of fighting
r
strength the United States can muster
must be utilized for the purpose of
opposing Germany in the great effort
to protect and preserve our liberties’
I think, as speedily as possible, we
should prepare to double the present
army.” declared Senator Hoke Smith,
in opposing the amendment. Yet the
junior senator from Georgia has only
recently boasted of his staunch loy
alty and patriotism and has denounced
as "plain, common ordinary liars” all
those who question either.
But what must be thought of any
man who, at a time like this, when the
nation’s fate is literally in the bal
ance—for we have just as much at
stake on the blood-drenched fields of
Flanders as either Great Britain or
France—what must bV thought of a
senator, especially a senator from a
loyal state like Georgia, who will per
sistently attempt to handicap his own
country in its fight for life!
The time is evidently approaching
wiien the United States must summon
more men to the colors. General
Wood has just declared that we must
have an army- of five million in
France—and he is one of the ablest
military men of the nation, just re
turned from France where he per
ceived for himself our very vital
needs. Against his judgment, against
the judgment of other high military
men who are in a position to know
what is necessary, against the judg
ment. of the president, against the
judgment of all of his colleagues, the
junior senator from Georgia has the
unblushing shamelessness and perfidy
to propose legislation designed to limit
and cripple our figfhting forces.
Fortunately, "the junior senator
from Georgia was the only senator
who voted for his amendment."
How long, oh, how much longer,
must Georgia hang its head in shame
at the humiliating and disgraceful con
duct of this unworthy servant, in
whose breast every sentiment of honor,
as well of loyalty, seems to have long
! since died’
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
APRIL THE SIXTH.
On the. sixth of April, the first anni
versary of the formal entrance of the
United States into the Great War,
there will be inaugurated the cam
paign to raise the Third Liberty Bond
issue, and the day will be virtually a
holiday in every state, city and ham
let.
April the sixth is one day that should
be proclaimed a national holiday, and
the present Congress should make it so
by law. The United States has bo na
tional holiday, not even the Fourth of
July, which, however, is observed all
over the nation. It is the custom of
the president to declare Thanksgiving
Day a holiday, but there is no law cov
ering the subject. Many of the states,
however, have legal holidays. Geor
gia. for instance, has nine—January 1
and 19, February 12 and 22, April 26,
.;nne 3, July 4, the first Monday in
September,, Thanksgiving Day, Christ
mas Day.
The Declaration of Independence
was signed, according to John Adams,
on July second, and he predicted then
that it would be forever afterwards a
day celebrated by Americans, in
commemoration of their deliverance
from British tyranny . But. somehow
or other, the act of independence be
came identified with July the Fourth,
and as such it has become the most
significant day in American history.
But it is now no more important in
the minds of Americans than the sixth
of April. For the fight to attain lib
erty is never of more consequence
than the fight to defend and retain it!
It is peculiarly appropriate that the
Liberty Bond issue campaign should
start on this day, as it will serve to
impress on the mind of the people of
the country the fact that April the
Sixth is a day that they should re
member above all days as a day when
this country entered the greatest war
in the world’s annals for the purpose
of preserving its own freedom and in
order to save democracy for the earth.
Congress should not hesitate about
making April the Sixth the one na
tional holiday.
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THE PEOPLE DIDN’T DECIDE.
Tliis, from the New Yoik World:
“Outside of the District of Col
umbia. there is not a prohibition
law or a prohibition amendment
that represents the arbitrary act
of a legislative body. Every one of
them rest upon a vote of the peo
ple. No state has forbidden the
manufacture and sale of alcoholic
liquors except by a mandate of
the peoeple. No county, no city,
no township, no village has for
bidden such traffic except by a vote
of the ipeoeple.”
The New York World should be
ashamed for making such a statement,
which it ought to know to be out
rageously untrue. The New York
World, one of the world’s greatest
newspapers, is too well informed and
has too many channels of accurate in
formation to make a statement of that
character, witohut doing so deliberate
ly and designedly, with intent to de
ceive.
The people of Georgia, who have
j had a prohibition law now for more
than ten years, have never voted on
the question. The law was enacted in
the summer of 1907 and became ef
fective on January 1, 1908. Its “near
beer’” saloon loop-hole so weakened
the law that a succeeding legislature
amended it to the extent of permitting
the receipt of two quarts of whisky a
month and a stipulated quantity of
beer. Then this had the effect of still
further stultifying the statute that the
general assembly of 1917. in special
session, revoked that feature, and made
the law probably the most stringent
of any state in the country.
The people of Georgia themselves
have never voted on the prohibition
question!
These are facts too well known and
too widely disseminated for the New
York World to be ignorant of them
Why. then, does a newspaper of its
prominence and ability mis-state the
tacts, even in the heat of argument?
And for the very reason that the
people have never settled the issue di
rectly there is now a probability of an
agitation this summer, when the gen
eral assembly convenes, over the ques
tion of ratifying the constitutional
<?n timer, t tar nation;:! prohibition.
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
I
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
Fragrance
of Orange
Blossoms
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. WAKRIN, Manager
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