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OFFICIAL ORGaw
City of Americus
Sumter County
Webster County
•uilroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District.
U. S. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, Georgia, April ", 1918.
jiPARAGBAPHICALLY SPEAKING |
The more you know about the othe '
man's business the less you know
about your own.
Hindenburg doubtless realizes by
now that 1918 is not a very good year
for spring offensives.
How old does a woman get to bj
fore she admits her age? Or does
she ever get that old?
Selling flour now in violation of law
appears to be a great deal worse
crime than selling likker.
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Many people are finding out that
they can do without so many biscuits
and still survive the experience.
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The 76-mile range gun blew’ up and
killed its gunners, sending some of
them 76 miles more, chiefly more.
Marriage is one way that a man
has for showing his contempt for hap
piness—for single happiness, to be
sure.
The Russian women have got the
Vote, but it is just their luck that their
country is not having any more elec,
tions.
A knoxcille editor calls thb Kaiser
a liar. We admire his moderation and
restraint in referring to the Beast of j
Berlin.
That man who prayed in German
before being hung evidently thought
that English would not be understood
where he w r as going.
A good many ladies in Americus ob
serve meatless days seven days a
> week We wouldn’t know, liowever,
but for their short skirts.
They're putting les s cloth in skirts,
especially dow’n near the bottom, as
long as the w’ar lasts. But, suppose
‘ the war should end suddenly!
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We imported worth of mer
chandise from Germany in February
of this year, and we are wondering
how the mistake occurred.
Somebody says that they don't hea’’
any cheering for the junior senator
from Georgia. Oh, well, just wait.
He’ll do the cheering for himself in
due time.
A man usually forgets even the day
he married, while the woman remem
bers every detail of the ceremony and
exactly how the preacher looked when
he pronounced the fatal words.
The leader of the Boston orchestra
who refused to play “The Star Spang
led Banner” has been interned for re
mainder of the war. He can now play
mumble-peg and jackbones, instead.
This is the season when the red
strawberry has reached the heighth of
its luscious growth, the tender turnip
is in the full glory of its ‘superb fla
vor, when th e English pea has finally
fi'led its pod. when the radish is ripe
-yet there are those who complain
because they can’t get all the wheat
flour they want I
THT LYNCHING OF A GERMAN.
The lynching of that German in Col
linsville, Illinois Thursday night was
a deplorable affair, but something ot
the kind might be expected to occur
almost anywhere in the country where
k
there is an intensity of patriotic feel
ing.
Red-blooded Americans heartily in
sympathy with the war in which tliei”
sons, brother, and kinsmen are giving
their lives, cannot be expected to tol
erate yro-Germanism any longer.
Not only will Germans themselves
be liable to mob violence, but the time
is actually at hand, and is becoming
more acute every day, when sympa
thizers and. slackers will be just as
much in danger.
In truth, before the war has gone
very much farther, the slacker will
be subjected to more opprobium,
and to a greater degree of personal
danger, than the German-blooded
citizen, who is naturally inclined to
lean toward the Fatherland.
Americans are not going to have any
patience with the slacker, nor with
those citizens whose disloyalty con
sists in being obstructionists and nag
ging critics.
Former ambassador Gerard, ex
president Taft, and other leaders and
moulders of public thought are tren
chantly advocating severe penalties for
such offenses, but they also throw
in the strong admonition to invoke
this punishment by an orderly and
regular process. The machinery of
the courts is entirely adequate, and
will be even more so -when Congress
has enacted the additional provisions
to the espionage law’.
Nevertheless, these outbreaks will
happen, sometimes perhaps in the best
of communties. They cannot be fore
seen specifically nor prevented. Each
■will be an outrage on justice. Still,
in time of war, when patriotism
amounts to a passion, loyal citizens
will be stirred to their depths by
downright disloyalty, and the culprits
may logically apprehend the conse
quences of their folly. Not even th*
prosecution of the lynchers will be a
sufficient deterent for an angry mob.
The people of the United States are
beginning to take the war seriously,
and while Thursday’s lynching was
an unfortunate occurrence, the par
ticipants deserving of punishment, it
is none the less gratifying to know
that the country is awaking.
WINNING THE WAR AT HOME.
At the outset .of the third great bat
tle to be w’aged by the people at home
to win the war with Liberty Bonds,
Secretary McAdoo has adressed a note
to the people of the country calling
upon them to rally to the fight with
iio le§s interitness of purpose than the>
expect our soldier boys across the wa
ter to face the enemy’s guns.
He impresses upon the nation the
• tremendous need for the success o!
1 this third campaign, and calls for the
| concentrated effort of every patrio
in behalf of the third loan.
His state ment follows:
“One million, eight hundred thou
sand of America s brave sons are now
serving the army and navy of the
United States. Thousands of then
are already upon the battlefields o
France,’fighting and dying to save th<
liberties and rights of those who staj
at home and to secure democracy an
freedom against Prussian brutality
and military despotism. Their blooc
already consecrates the soil of noble
France.
“Who can think of their heroic sac
rifices without emotion.
“Who can contemplate their trials
and sufferings, their dangers ant
| struggles without setting ablaze th*
flre s of patriotism in his soul?
“Who can look upon the blue jacket
cf the sailor or the khaki jacket of the
soldier w ithout admiration for the in
dominable hearts that beat beneath—
hearts that may soon be stilled in
death as the price they pay to save
civilization
’We must support our gallant sail
erg and soldiers. We must make them
swift victors in the fight with the
I Kaiser. We can do it if we at home
do our duty with the same quality o*
I patriotism that animates our men in
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the trenches. The least duty we can
perform—and w r e should be eager and
happy to perform it —is to lend our
money, every available dollar we
have or can save, to our government
in order that our gallant sons may be
supplied with all they need to save
America.
“No true patriot will fail to buy
I
I nited State® Liberty Bonds.”
THE KAISER’S FRIEND.
“Then the senator’s argument is,
that the western states should.
handle the situation and leave the
citizens of Georgia to favor the
cause of Germany.”
This was the rejoinder of Senator
Poindexter to the junior senator from
Georgia, after the latter had spoken
against the bill designed to punish
disloyal utterances.
This was the humiliating reflection
cast upon the state of Georgia in the
United States Senate as the result of
the misrepreesntatioiis of the junior
senator.
This is the way the state of Georgia
is pilloried before the nation, held up
to shame and contumely and the
scorn of the country, because a tom
tit politician continues to betray and
outrage the trust reposed in him.
Os course, the junior senator does
not want a law that will punish the
disloyalists. Friend of the copper
heads that he is, he wants no law, no
matter how urgently needed, that is
calculated to clamp down on his sedi-
I
tious supporters.
For that matter, he -well know’ S that
the law, if passed is likely to reach
out and get him among the first.
There are not so very many follow
ers of the junior senator in the state,
not as many as even some of his op
ponents believe. They are divided into
three classes—those who are for him
because of their ignorance, those who
are for him because of their prejudice
“ag’in the government,” and those who
are for him for purely personal rea
sons.
The punior senator is continuing to
, lay the foundation of his campaign,
namely, that he has devoted his ser
vice s in the Senate to the protection
of the first two classes whom he pro
fesses, and will continue to pretend
are the real, representative citizens of
Georgia. He will return to the state
for his empaign an declare, with
great bombast and loud protestations
of his own loyalty, that for their sake
he has fought and bled. His campaign
argument has long been anticipated.
No one will contend that the junio •
senator from Georgia is out-and-out
a -pro-German. N o one will assert that
be is on the payroll of the Kaiser, al
though in consideration of the service
he has rendered the imperial Prussian
governemnt he i s undoubtedly entitled
to a liberal compensation. No one
will charge that the junior senator is
at heart anxious for his native country
to go down in defeat before the mon
k
strous Huns.
f That is not the case at all.
The whole trouble 1 3 this: The jun.
ior senator’s mind is so steeped in pre
judice and politics that his judgment
has become jaundiced and warped. He
: permitted his antipathy for the presi
dent—an enmity that should have been
shelved when the war crisis came upon
1 usJhe permitted that to dethrone his
£
scund reason. In his desperate efforts
—futile as they were frantic—to em
barrass the president, he jumped at
■ every tangent, and floundered about s i
’ i completely and miserably, that he
'. tirely lost his bearings.
: | He also made a bad political guess.
Already “in bad” at home as well as
in Washington, he made a bold pla'
for reinstatement in public favo~
’ when he opposed conscription, believ
I ing that the draft would be distinctly
! unpopular and calculated to boost his
political strength. Moreover .he ex
hibited none of those qualities cf
! statesmanship, vision and depth of
thought which ordinarily would have
demonstrated to his own satisfaction
i the immensity of our task in entering
> the war and the really critical trend of
the times.
And so he persists in this political
perversion. Lost to all sense of
shame, with a desperate determination,
he hesitates not at bringing Georgia
into national disrepute, and having
1 his own state pointed at with the fin-
ger of scorn on the floor of the United
States Senate. With thousands of pro-
Germans and German spies in the
country, many of them industriously at
w’ork in a concerted effort to delay our
war program, this man would protect
them by defeating legislation intended
to enmesh them in the snare of the
law.
The effect of his conduct, speciously
and spuriously based on that ancient
pretension of constitutional and fun
damental rights, i s to directly and ma
terially aid the Kaiser, To that ex
tent it is devilish and damnable. Ic
is political putridity that is pro-Ger
man to the core.
And The Times-Recorder cannot be ■
lieve that the state of Georgia will
ever again send such a man back to
represent it in the United States Sen
ate.
Roosevelt say that this is “the peo
ple’s w’ar”, but he acts like it belongs
to him.
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Every man alw’ays begins his fish
story with the statement that “This
is the truth.”
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Equally good for man and
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The
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