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THE TIMES-RECORDER
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TUB TIMES-RECORDER COMPANY.
(Incorporated.)
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Published every afternoon, except
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at Americus, Ga., under act
f March 3, 1879.
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Americus, May 9. 1918.
PARAGBAPHtCftILY SPEAKING |
A man Is not happy unless he is
married, and he Is not when he is.
A man proves his absolute de
votion to his wife when he goes on a
shopping tour with her.
Is there anything more fragrant or
delicious than a luscious young mul
let or a tender young catfish?
The poet asked, “What is so rare as
a day in June? We change it to read,
“What is shorter than a short skirt?”
Ere long we expect to hear of signs
like this being posted in the trenches:
“Handy Maps Os Berlin For Sale!”
We agree heartily with the man who
says a woman who can’t afford silk
stockings should not wear short
skirts.
The presence of the Rainbow Di
vision in the front line fighting has
already made the Germans see many
colors.
One thing a man can’t understand is
why a woman picks out the very placej
where he is sitting when she starts to
sweeping.
So long as the German people are
willing to lay down their lives and die
for him, the Kaiser is willing to feel
sorry for them.
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There was a time, when dresses
were long and full, when you could
not tell whether a lady was bow
limbed or not.
This is going to be a hard summer
on newspaper readers, with Congress,
and the Ceorgta Legislature both in
session at the same time.
Those peace rumors may come
rounabout way, but they were all
started from Berlin. And a German
peace is the same thing as war.
Those German papers that are re
ferring to General Hindenburg as a
Moses will eventually be asking
“Where was Moses when the light
went out ”
With the Methodist general confer
ence still continuing its sessions in
Atlanta, we venture the assertion that
chickens are growing extremely scarce
in that market.
A man thinks if he is asked to feed
the dog that he is doing too much
work around the house, but he doesn’t
mind a bit if his wife washes and dries
dishes for half an hour.
Before marriage, when he is "call
ing”, a man will swear that chicken
salad is the greatest dish in the world,
but ten years later he raises a row
every time his wife serves it for sup
per.
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This is the season when the aver
age married man risks his life climb
ing about arranging strings upon
which a vine may grow, so that his
wife and her friends will have a cooi
porch upon which to sit and play
cards during the summer.
SOME REFLECTION ON THE PER
SONAL SIDE 01 WM. ,1. IIAR<HS.
(By Walter S. Coleman, of the Cedai
town [standard )
The human side of public men is,
after all, the best index to the man
before the public eye. An official
necessarily stands upon the record he
makes, and this may depend upon his
equipment and ability, wholly apart
from any personal characteristic of
the individual.
There is, however, a lesson in the
life of every man of affairs which
should be studied by every young man,
no matter what his environments.
The country boy or young man from
the average town often has an as
piration to do something in life worthy
of himself and creditable to those
whom he would love to honor first of
(
all. The successful man in public life
is pointed to as a forceful example*
of what every young man can ac
complish by a laudable purpose, per- ■
sistent effort and a worthy desire to
do something useful toward hig fel
lows and honorable to his country.!
Yet the man, and not the official, is,
at least, the secret of the careers *
cf so many men constantly before the
footlights.
The waiter has been forcefully im
pressed with this vie wof life by a re
cent visit to the national capital and
cannot refrain from some impartial
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comments on the character and life,
of one of Georgia’s most prominent
citizens at the present hour.
Spending several days in Washing
ton, where the tide of human affairs
ebbs and flows with wonderful rapidi-
l
ty and brings to public attention men
of every conceivable ambition. I am
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impressed with a case in point that
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should be of very general interest to
the young men of Georgia who hope
to become prominent in life or use
ful to their people and their state.
I observed the stream of callers at
the office of William J. Harris, of
Cedartown, who holds possibly the
most important position of public
trust now committed to any official In
the life of the nation next to a cabinet
officer immediately under the presi
dent. As chairman of the Federal
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Trade Commission, the body over
which Mr. Harris presides, his pass
ing upon the commercce and trade
and the prices of every material con
sumed by the people of the United
States or the hosts o f the Allies en
gaged in the great world war is wor
thy of unusual notice. While sitting
in his office on a former visit, Presi
dent Wilson made a visit to Mr. Harris
to discuss some important questions
that demanded immediate determine-'
tion. The rapidity with which these
momentous problems are solved by
the body over which Mr. Harris pre
sides gives a quick insight into the
large measure of service this Geor
gian is rendering to the nation in
this hour of the gravest crisis in its
history. j
The spectacle of personal friends,
those seeking innumerable positions
in Washington and elsewhere, pub
, lie officials and prominent citizens of
. the country, all constantly trying to
( get an interview with Mr. Harris, o>
asking his advice or his aid and in
fluence —all this presents a vivid pic
ture of the public official in Washing
ton life. But the most interesting side
|to this picture is the “man of the
| hour,” who receives everyone in his
characteristic way without regard to
the position in life held by either Mr.
Harris ci I’s visitor. All are treated
alike without regard to their station
in life and each is given the same con
sideration with no attention paid to
the nature of hs ambition. The cor-
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dial handshake, the same pleasing
manner and the same assurance of
! welcome make their uniform impress
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on all alike, and n o visitor ever seeks,
the presence of Mr. Harris but that
he leaves with the common feeling
of his real desire to help everyone,
if possible, and to refuse none if with-*
in his power to grant his request.
The writer could not help but re
flect upon this exalted position and
the opportunity to render service, so
widely sought, as is the case with Mr.
Harris
Several years ago I went to Cedar-
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• 'own, a young man just out of col- '
lege, to engage in the newspaper
business in that north Georgia town,
and among my first acquaintances was
young William J. Harris, likewise
just out of the University of Geor-
1 gia. Mr. Harris supported himself
! and footed his own bills while at
' school, and his education was ths
product of his own endeavors. Re
turning home to Cedartown, he en
gaged in business with remarkable
energy and a determination to suc
ceed in spite of many difficulties. As
, one of a large family of children, he
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j sought his own way and relied upon
his own initiative, and from the very
first he has succeeded in a remarka
ble life of accomplishments.
I Just when he was ready to enter col
i lege his father’s health failed and
(William J. Harris worked and saved
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the money to pay his way through col-
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I lege. Afterwards he assumed the
s debts of his father and helped to edu-
| cate his brothers and sisters.
| No matter whether he proposed or
I labored under stress, he was always,
| thought ful and generous to those de- (
i pendent on him. Indeed, while he
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I was working his way up the ladder,
he contributed a part of his means of- ,
1 ten borrowing money himself, to aid
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j struggling young men in Polk county
who desired an education, but did not
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! have the means themselves. This
sacrifice on the part of Mr. Harris
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,is possibly one of the delightful re-
flections upon his brief but already
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brilliant career, and the writer has
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often heard young men now grown
to manhood and succeeding admirably
in life, express their gratitude to him
for the aid granted by Mr. Harris in
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their earlier struggles. Every now
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and then he refers with pride to the
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raise in life of those whom he has
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1 elped, and with a merry twinkle in
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his eye and a fond interest in their
J rt al success, he pleasingly refers to ■
them as “some of my boys” who are
making good in life
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His father was an officer in the Con
federate army under General Jno. B.
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Gordon, and the old soldier has al
ways been close to the heart of this
! Georgia. Mr Harris some years ago
married the daughter of “Fighting
Joe" Wheeler, and many a Georgia
veteran remembers with pride this gal
lant hero of the Confederacy, who was
born near Augusta, Georgia, and who
twice during the war saved his home
city from being burned by Sherman’s
army.
Mr. Harris is descended from Gen
eral John Coffee, of Telfair county,
Georgia, for whom Coffee county was
( named. He has more than one broth- j
( er who has distinguished himself and
rendered service of a high order to
the country. His eldest brotehr is one
.•f the leading educators of Georgia,
being now at the head of the State
Institution for the Deaf at Cave
Spring. Another brother is a gen
eral in the United States army and
I one of the adjutant generals at army
, headquarters in Washington. He was
i ' leveted by President McKinley for
gallantry in the war with Spain
! ,T’his brother soon goes to France,
• where he requested service when war
> wjs declared. Another brother is a
• leading specialist in the medical pro-
■ session of Birmingham, Alabama. 1
■ who volunteered and is now a major
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> in the army in France. Still another
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! brother is captain in the United States
i army, and all have requested service
» in France.
. One characteristic of Mr. Harris
I that reveals the real man is his gen
i erosity to every good cause and his
■ liberality to those in need, when it is
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> remembered that he has not been a
• man of means during his lifetime. No
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I needy person in distress ever appeal-,
! ed to him w’ho went unanswered. It
i it his custom and has been for yean.'
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i to contribute regularly to more than
one orphans’ home and like institu
: tions in Georgia. And no denomina
. tion has been discriminated against
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by him, but such benefactions have
teen solely on the belief that he was
• doing real good to a most worthy (
! and deserving institution.
i Mr. Harris, while genial and com
panionable in all the social obliga
tions of life, has been moral and
sober, and his companionship has al-<
' ways been open and of a high order.
So often has the writer seen him
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wave his hand or speak cordially to
the woodhaulers who would come to
Cedartown with their yoke of oxen
or one-mule team. One afternoon,
especially, the writer will never for
get when a group of young ladies and
gentlemen were standing on the side
walk, when “Bill"’ Harris raised his
hat to a “one-gallus” woodhauler.
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The company all turned to see the
1 individual spoken to by Mr. Harris.
One of the companions referred to it
and Mr. Harris replied “I never al-
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low anyone to be more polite to me
than I am to them.” . 1
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William J. Harris has made his
triumphs and won his larger fields on
his merit and personal fitness alone.
It is the man at last who succeeds,
never the official. The official reaps
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the honors and receives the plaudits
' of his friends, but the individual at
last is the secret of success in all re- (
| latlons of life. Much has been said
in the newspapers about the rapid and
1 brilliant rise in public life of this
1 Georgian, his friends have enjoyed*'
* his recognition and promotion with.
1 great personal interest. To those
1 who do not know him personally and
who have not enjoyed a closeness
with the man, this article is intended
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in away to convey a correct impres
sion of the man himself and of those
characteristics that have made him !
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what he is in the public vision.
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Whether one meets him on the side-.,
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walk or shakes his hand in a big poll-
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tical gathering or comes in contact
with him in an official capacity, his
friends know that he is the same
“Bill" Harris at all times and under ;
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all circumstances.
Sympathetic, considerate and genial,
he is intensely human and loves dear
ly to aid everyone who has a laudable
purpose to advance in life and work
out a career of usefulness. He be
lieves that everyone who makes good
is the individual at last worth while,
and the lesson of his life, from mod
est environment and good family
blood, affords a splendid object lesson
to every young man in Georgia to i
1 rise to the highest position of trust (
and real usefulness to his country. It !
should be an inspiration to every
country boy who longs for a worthy '
' career and who is striving for the '
open door to opportunity for greater
usefulness and service to his fellows.
The sturdy youth in the many towns
i and country districts of our state, with
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a world-vision now before us all, can
find no more impressive view in public
life than the career of this Georgian,
now before the national eye. To be '
I recognized everywhere as enjoying a '
closeness and an honorable intimacy
with President Wilson is an accomp
lishment creditable to any of a great
number of men and to rise from a
members of the senate of a sovereign i
state to a position of recognized prom-J
inence and confidence with the head of
i great nation, is an honor worthy.|
ot the best blood and brains of any
people.
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