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OFFICIAL ORGat, a>JR:
City of Americus
Sumter County
Webster County
Baiteoad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District
U. H. Court. Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, Gtu, May 7, 1918.
PARAGFAPHICALLY SPEAKING |
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Hell used to be paved with good in
tentions. Now they’re using spiked
helmets.
You're either 100 per cent. American
or you’re a man without a country.
Take your choice.
An old man with a beautiful young,
wife doesn’t mind such small trou-.
bles as mumps, measles, corns, and
poverty.
War is worse than anybody ever
said it was, now that the Germans
have begun shooting gas shells with
garlic odors.
The kaiser has invited Emperor
Charles to visit him, but was the in
vitation in the nature of a request or
a command?
These people who are always
preaching about charity beginning at
home are generally very careful to
let it end there.
When Congressman Howard says he
won't give out “a damned word” of
his correspondence we suppose hej
means exactly what he says.
It may be observed that the men
who know the most about anything
have the least to say about it. But
it’s different with a woman.
To call a man a German is the worst
possible insult, according to the Ma-J
con police court judge. Thus does our.
profane vocabulary increase every
day.
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One of the greatest disappointments
in a woman’s life is to walk down- 1
town with a new dress and hat andi
not see a single man giving her the
admiring once-over.
After less than a week’s training a
student aviator can go up in the air.
But a woman, in quarrelling with her
husband, can do it on a second’s no
tice, without any previous traiinng
whatever.
The Times-Recorder’s ’phone rank.
‘‘The shortest skirt in Americus is
going to pass your office in one min
ute,” said an unknown voice. And it
did. And the passing of an aero
plane overhead could not have demor
alized business any more.
With negro women getting $1.65 a
day for planting grass at the aviation
camp, the few ladies who have cooks
left with them are perfectly willing to
give them two days a week of?, every
afternoon off, and all the privileges of
the sitting room, the victrola, the
piano, the bathroom, the library and
the pantry, to say nothing of taking
them for a ride occasionally.
One of the most dangerous moments
in a man’s life is when he is lying
prostrate in a barber’s chair, with the
barber standing over him with an
open razor in hand, looking out of the
front window, and just then a pretty
woman in a very short skirt passes
by. Some of these days the barber’s
will-power is going to fail and soma
man’s throat will be slashed from ear
to ear.
SHALL WE HATE THE GERMANS
C, H, Chestern. the English author,
assailed by the editor of the London
Nation for being a ‘‘victim and ex
ponent of a very horrible thing called
Hate.” enters upon a vigorus defense
of the sentiment he entertains to
wards the Germans,
What he feels today, he says, is sim -
ply what every normal Englishman
felt ‘‘when the Prussian onslaught on
civilization was fresh,” That was the
spirit of overwhelming resentment and
comdemnation which led the British
people to rise en masse to avenge the
German crime against Belgium and
France,
‘‘lf this was hate.” says Mr, Ches
terton, ‘‘every man of us hated. It
hate is wrong, every living soul
among us was wrong,”
He inquires whether anybody has
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found reason to change that view, ‘
Has there been any great spiritual
transformation of the German race?l
“It is because of the tenderness and
courtesy with which the Germans are
now treating small nations. It is be
cause of the high and historic loyalty.'
with which they are now obserrving
the old conventions of Christendom?
Is it only that they sank their last 1
hospital ship more gently than their,
first merchant vessel or liner? Have
they treated Russia in the end any
better than they treated Serbia' in the'
beginning? Is it that the Germans 1
have grown magnanimous and idealis- !
tu '
An affirmative answer would
naturally be absurd. Whereupon Mr.
Chesterton submits the only alter- ■
native. If what the British hated has
not grown less hateful, ipossibjy men
like his critic hiave lost the power to
hate what is hpteful. And there
follows this searching fire of question: :
“Is it that we have grown dull, that'
we have grown cynical, that we care!
less about a crime when it has be-'
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come a habit, that we care less about i
a murder when it is big enough to be-!
come a massacre? Is it thta we have;
grown more gross in our sense of
honor, more base in our conception of
the, soldier, more bold about the
rights of the citizen—in a word, that 1
we have grown more German?
“What is the riddle of the change—
have our enemies grown better, or
have we grown worse?”
There seems no escape from that I
dilemma. And the argument applies
as forcibly to Americans as to Britons.
It’s a big question, and Mr. Ches- 1
terton doesn’t give a direct or com
plete answer. Is hatred ever right?.
Many people will reply, “It is right'
to hate evil.” But is it possible to
hate evil abstractly, without hating
the evil-doer? And if that is theoret
ically possible in a highly developed
i type of mind, lg it practcally effective?
j Can a war be fought and won, and the
evil swept away, by maintaining a
calm, judicial attitude toward the of
fending nation?
To win a war, for whatever pure
and lofty object, armies must be slain.
And can one man fight and kill an
other without hating him?
CHANGING THE NAME.
Now they’re talking of changing
the name of sauerkraut to “liberty'
cabbage.” It would be easier to spell;
but that isn’t the idea. Sauerkraut, it
seems, has fallen Into disrepute be
cause of its German name. New York
vegetable dealers and delicatessen
men say the consumption of it has
fallen off 75 per cent since we enter
ed the war, on account of what they
call its “pro-German stigma.”
Very well. If that stigma can be
removed by changing the nomencla
ture, and in no other way, so be it.
By any other name it will smell just
as sour, offending one man’s olfactory
sense and to another bringing a tang
and appetite that all the perfumes of
Araby could not arouse.
But aren’t we rather over-doing our
anto-Germanism when we jump onto
this helpless vegetable And aren't
we overworking the fine word “liber
ty?”
Whatever we do, let’s keep our sense
of humor. Germany lost hers —and
look at her now
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
THEY ARE ONE.
“We are not going to separate the
German people from their Kaiser, ’ |
says former President Taft.
Without being sure of the precise
sense in which Mr. Taft meant this,'
we utter a hearty “Amen!’ We are
going to separate the German nation
from the Kaiser. We are going to go
ahead and lick them both together. I
For a long time we Americans hug
ged to our souls the delusion that
there was an essential difference be-,
tween Wilhelm and his people. It
was the German government that was
running amuck in Europe and com
mitting intolerable offenses against
America. The German people, we in-j
sisted, were all right—much the same
sort of folk as our own Teutonic
citizens, pierely caught by chance in
the war machine. We persisted in
this idea even after we entered the
war. Some Americans still affect to
believe it. But the majority of us
can n 0 longer close our eyes to the
fact that Kaiser and people, govern-'
ment and nation, are one. j
It is the ruling clas.s to be sure,
that is primarily responsible. The
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The Hohenzollerns, the Tirpitzes, the
Hindenburgs, the Hertlings, the puff-'
ed-up royalty, professional militarists,'
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Junker statesmen and the industrial
leaders who have fattened on prlvi-'
leges, the sleek professors and edi
tors who have toadied to the classes
in power, all these have persistently
and deliberately misled the German
nation until they have molded it in
their own evil image.
But it’s no use now delving into
causes. We face the fact that the ‘
molding has been accomplished, and
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government and people are indis
tinguishable.
The German nation has stood for
the most criminal war in history, and
still stands for the war in every phase,
and for the men who direct it. The
German people have rejoiced in the
crushing of Belgium and Poland, the
betrayal of Russia, the murderous
Zeppelin raids, the U-boat assassina
tions, the liquid fire and poison gas
and all the atrocities committed by
their army and navy.
The German people have not only
acquiesced in these horrors. They
have committed them. This, as every
child knows, is a war of nations. The
German ruling class by itself could
rot fight for one hour. The Kaiser is
only a figurehead, a symbol. It is not
Hindenburg that is hammering the
French, British and Americans in Pic
ary and Flanders. It Is not Tirpitz
who is torpedoing our ships. It is the
German people who are doing this
work for them, and in the name of
the Fatherland.
It is therefore the Fatherland that
we have got to smash. Kaiser and peo
ple are both guilty, both menacing.
The people are more menacing than
their ridiculous, strutting emperor,
because there are so many of them—
all with false and dangerous ideas
in their heads. Both must go down
together.
FOOD FOR AMERICAN PRISONERS.
Captured American soldiers, arriv
ing in German prison camps, will find
American Red Cross emergency food
parcels awaiting them, if arrangements
already in operation are fully carried
out. At the prison camp at Tuchel,
in West Prussia, fifty-seven miles
northwest of the Austrian border, per
mission has been obtained to store
emergency supplies and 360 ten
pounds food parcels have been ship
ped there from the Red Cross head
quarters for relief of prisoners at
Berne, Switzerland, for distribution to
newly arrived prisoners. There are
about twenty-five Americans in the
Tuchel camp at present.
It is hoped that the arrangements
can be made in the near future wher
by all or nearly all of the German'
prison camps will be stocked with
similar emergency supplies, in antici
pation of the wants of those who are
unfortunate enough to fall into the
the hands of the enemy. There are
■approximately 200 main prison camps
in Germany, and some 10,000 prison
groups, connting the small detach
ments of prisoners sent out to do farm
labor. The American Red Cross plans
to supply all these work camps, as
. well as other where American prison
. erg are held, with the regulation food
I parcels.
i In the ordinary course of affairs it
would be necessary for the bureau at
Berne to be advised regarding the
arrival of American prisoners in a
I German camp before sending food
I parcels. Ten days or more would
elapse before the prisoners could have
the benefit of the rations. At the camp
at Tuchel, according to advices re
ceived by cable from Berne. Sergeant
Halyburton and Corporal Upton, Am
erican prisoners, have been delegated
custodians of the emergency food sup
plies, and a store room has been as
signed to them in which to keep the
parcels that have been forwarded.
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