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THE TIMES-RECORDER
BBTABLISHED 1878.
TIMES-RECORDER COMPANY,
(Incorporated.)
Publisher.
Published every afternoon, except
Saturday, every Sunday morning, and
as a Weekly (every Thursday).
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watered as second class matter at
jostofflee at Americus, Ga., under act
t March 3, 1879.
FRANC MANGUM,
Editor and Manager.
L. H. KIMBROUGH,
Assistant Business Manager.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN KjR:
City of Americus
Sumter County
Webster County
Mallroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District
U. B. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, Georgia, May 8, 1918.
PARtGPftPHICftILY SPEAKING |
The energy of the bill collector is
on the most wonderful things in the
world.
The British government has raised
the taxes on liquor and lowered the'
price. That's one way to collect more
taxes.
If the Allies will be as obstinate in ;
their stand as the American Cbngress J
is in its ways, the Germans can never
pass.
What has become of the old-fash
ioned bride-elect who called in all of
the neighbors and showed them her
assortment of lingerie?
It’s become so now that the street
corner standbys miss half of the short:
skirt procession by having to look up
and watch the aeroplanes passing over.
It’s going to be so before long that
when a man starts to the polls to vote
he’ll have to wait an hour or so for
his wife to get ready to go along
with him.
It's a pity that the Overman bill
doesn’t give the president the author
ity for re-organizing the Senate, along
with the other government bodies and
war industries.
When a man leaves a letter ad-,
dressed in a feminine hand on his
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desk, unopened, it’s a good sign that
he isn’t particularly inteersted in the
author of the epistle.
It’s a terrible risk for an aviator to'
fly low over the streets of Americus at
a time of day when the short skirts are I
passing by. He’s liable to take a
look and then pull the wrong lever.
The paragraphers are having a lot
of fun out of the name of the new Mis
souri senator, Xenophon P. WillfleyJ
However, we think his name is funny
enough, without adding any-thlng to it.
Whenever a man starts to shaving
early in the day and powdering his |
face often, and wearing his best clothes
downtown, and sporting silk shirts,
then’s when his wife sits up and be
gins to take notice.
"With God’s help we shall Obtain
peace in the west," says Hindenburg;
not a soft peace, but an "honorable
peace.” Well, even the Almighty (
would have difficulty in making a Ger
man peace
Ttyo most erful of all studies in
cxpressi'ft Is tb watch the look on a
fellow's face when he is dancing with
the girl he loves and to observe the
lock-on the same man’s face ten years
late^. ! when l! »ie. is dancing with the
woman he married. ; c.<
».>• , .mi . i < :
TNe Ma<vm Telegraph saVs that
Schrtiy Howard l s going to poll a tre
mendous vote the Atlanta <;pn
tracttOis wl|pm be helped, to secure fat
government contracts, However, we
doubt it. People like contractors Vote
for favors they expect, not for what
they have' gbtten—ancj it js not likely
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that Schley Howard, breaking
faith.,with the president, can get any>|
thing*et«e for anybody. * • •
LOYALTY IN THE “COUNTRY."
The first Liberty Loan found its
biggest response in the large cities,
particularly the industrial communi
ties of the Eeast. The second had a
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more general acceptance throughout
the country, though the urban popula
tes of the East. The second had a’
i
reversed the original situation.
The secretary of the treasury sound
ed a warning at the beginning of the
last week of the drive: "The people
of the big cities, excellent as their
efforts for the loan have been, will
have to intensify their work to rival
the results being achieved in the
small towns and country districts.” i
The latter ;had taken the lead; and
despite the utmost efforts of the big
cities, they seem to have kept it. The
rural sections have more than re
deemed themselves from the charge
ot selfish indifference. They have
even shamed the city fellow who
preached patriotism to them.
STANDARD ROLLING STOCK.
Contracts for 1,025 freight and pass
enger locomotives, the largest order
ever placed in the history of American
railroads, have been let by the federal
railroad administration. That is good
news to a nation that has almost
given up hope of adequate transpor
tation facilities. Deliveries will be
gin in July and continue throughout
the year. Nearly all of the new en
gines are expected to be available for
hauling freight next winter. If they
are the situation will be much improv
ed over last winter. Most of them
will be assigned to eastern roads, 1
w-here the shortage of motive pow-er is
greatest. ,
The locomotives will not bear the
initials or emblem of any individual
railroad system, but and simply the
initials “U. S.” with identifying num
bers. That will be visible proof that
our railroads, for the present at least,
have been really nationalized. These
“U. S.” locomotives will not be own
ed by the government, however, but
by all the railtoads jointly.
Another significant thing, perhaps
the most important of all, is that they
mark the beginning of standardiza
tion. The locomotives ordered are
said to consist of six newly developed
standard types, intended ultimately
to replace many times that number
of types Heretofore every big rail- J
road has had a penchant for design
ing its own engines. Standardization,
of course, will mean a great saving in
manufacture and repairing.
The administration is introducing
the same principle into production of
freight cars, of whch 100,000 have
re?etly bee ordered, ad expects to
make a big gain in simplicity and ef-'
ficiency in all kinds of rolling stock.
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TREATED SQUARE.
An officer in the national army who
has an eye for the human side of miH
tary Hie noticed a rookie who had come
to the camp with a sullen and hope
less expression, who moved about as
if always expecting to be jumped on
for something. Gradually that man
began to cheer up, (o look the rest of
the men straight in the eye and to go
about his work with the energy and
swing of a man who likes his work
and his fellow-workers.
One day he asked permission to de
1 vote some of his own spare time to
1 doing odd jobs for the officers. Ques-
I tioned, he replied that he had never
in all his life been treated square un
til he came to the cantonment. He
had been cuffed about at home as a
child. He had grown up with fear
and resentment in his heart, looking'
for trouble and abuse and always find
ing it. Then he had been drafted. j
In the army he had been treated
like every other man. He had been
given work to do like everyone else.
But had also received fair treat-'
ment hke every one else. It had made'
a maJ dffhjUn, and he was trying to'
showlhis in the most di-'
rect way that occurred to him—by
giving his leisure to. the officers who
had been decent to him , ,
*his nwn’s case<is not unique,
points but one difference between an 1
i autocratic militdHFsmf and 'an ahny
' raised 'to defend ' democracy.
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
BORN TO THE WAR.
‘Today again,” writes Philip Gibbs j
in the New York Times, “I have been
among the thousands of French sold
iers. It is splendid to see them be-
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cause of their fine bearing. They are
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men in the prime of life, not so young
as some of the British and with a
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I e raver look than one sees on the Brit-
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ish faces when they have not yet
reached the zone of fire.
“They are men who have seen all
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tnat war means during these years of i
agony and hope and boredom and
death. They have no illusions. They
stare into the face of death unflinch-'
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I ingly and shrug their shoulders at the
menace and still have faith in vic
tory.
They are not gay or boisterous in
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t their humor, and they do not sing like
the British as they march, but they
seem to have been born to this war,'
and its life is their life, and they are
professionals.”
And these are typical soldiers of an
army that so many of us imagine, is
exhausted and dispirited, representing
a nation “bled white.”
There is no exhaustion in France, no
'’ailing of spirit, n o national anemia.'
More than a million men have been
killed. More than a million have been'
disabled. But there are millions still
' in arms, fine, upstanding men with (
good red blood in their veins and with i
a- fighting spirit in their hearts that
all the blood-letting of which Hinden- 1
burg’s hordes are capable will never
dimi sin.h
“Born to the war” is an illuminating
phrase. That is the French army. ■
That is French manhood That is the
French nation And thanks to France,'
that is the spirit of the whole great
alliance of which we are an humble
part For ourselves, we ask nothing
better than the teaching and com
radeship of those bronzed Gauls who
“stare into the face of death unflinch
ingly and shrug their shoulders at its
worst menace and have faith in vic
tory.”
No woman will ever admit that she
started the quarrel—or that she lost it.
CHIVALRY IN WAR.
A recent dispatch from the British
front in Flanders contained two little
stories of children found unexpectedly
in the midst of the great battle storm,'
and protected by the instinctive chiv
alry of British soldiers
In Ncuve Eglise, taken by the Ger
mans and retaken by the British, the!
latter discovered two German babies
left by the Gem an troops The Tom
mies took them into a trench for safe
ty, as the Germans were shelling the
ruined town. When the trench came
under a heavy fire, they fell back,
taking the babies with them, and final
ly delivered the tots, safe and sound, 1 .
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to a field hospital in the rear. There
the English nurses are taking care of 1
them.
In anoth?r part of the Flanders line 1
two British artillery officers found
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a baby that had become separated j
from its parents in the confusion of i
flight before the German advance. 1
They took the infant with them to a *
hayloft, which they were obliged to
use as an observation post. The
weather was cold, and the baby was |
thinly clad. They placed it between
them and kept it warm with the heat' J
of their own bodies. Later the baby
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was found, sound asleep, between two
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corpses. Its saviors had been killed j
by shrapnel. The baby is now alive,' ]
and well in a Bristol hospital. j 1
These were natural enough things. 1
Almost any Briton, Frenchman or
1 American would do them. There are ‘ ’
’ thousands of such instances in the
J allied records. j
But how we long, for the credit of
human nature, to read a few such ’
stories of German soldiers’ We search
i war literature for them, German liter- ,
I tore included, almost in vain. In- ■
stead, we have an appalling history
■ of cruelties to women and children.
Deluded and brutalized by their .
false teaching and the example of
I their Prussian masters, the German |
, troops are too busy with their kill- j
I ing to bother with such sentimental
nonsense as being mercilful to the
helpless, •
! When In Leslie, (in.
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THE RIGHT WAY *
Trains Arrive.
from Columbus
(Seminole) *12:05 a m
From Jacksonville
(Seminole) '..8:40 a m
F rom Atlanta-Macon *5:19 a m
From Albany * 6;10 a m
From Columbus 1110:00 a m
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•Dally. ! Except Sunday. !’Sunday
only. GEO. ANDERSON,
Agent.
Hoard Air line
Leave Americus for Abbeville, Hel
ena, Collins, Savannah, Columbia,
Richmond, Portsmouth and points
fast and South
12:81 p m
1:20 a m
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R. P. EVERETT. Agent, American, la.
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OUR BANK
Is now taking subscrip- Msf I!
ions for the Third Liberty r; ra ®gf OH yaf
Loan Bonds, and we wish ||
to especially appeal to D|R
our many customers and g
friends to cooperate with
the Government and in
vest in these securities. J
We will gladly extend you the deferred payment plan
over a longer period than provided by the Government if
you so desire, These Bonds bear 4 1-4 per cent interest,
payable semi-annually, and are in denominations as small
as $50.00 and up.
This is a splendid opportunity to show your patriotism
and make a most excellent investment as well.
THE PLANTERS BANK
of Americus
AJAX TIRES
Are equipped with abracedand
re-inforced tread that are
shoulders of strength and mean
more miles. Ajax Tires are
guaranteed, in writing, 5,000
miles. We have them to fit
your car.
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WE HAVE RECEIVED
THIRD LIBERTY LOAN
COUPON BONDS
OF ALL DENOMINATIONS, WHICH
WE CAN SELL AND DELIVER OVER
OUR COUNTER FOR CASH, WITH
OUT FORMAL APPLICATION.
Bank of Commerce
Americus Undertaking Company
Funeral Directors and Embalmers
Nat LeMaster, Manager
Day Phones 88 ano 231 Night 661 and 134
OLEN BUCHANAN 1|
Funeral Director i
And Embalmer I
Allison Undertaking Co. ■
™ Day IPhone 253. Night Phones 106, 657 and 381 J
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1918. ’