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THE TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 1878.
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OFFICIAL ORGArt
City of Americus
Sumter County
Webster County
Mail road Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District.
U. 8. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, Georgia, May 13. 1918.
PARAGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING |
Many men observed Mother's Day
who didn’t observe much when she
was Uving.
Some women seem to have an ideaj
that they can stay young by wearing'
frisky clothing.
There is a lot of difference between
spending money right and spending it I
right and left.
There are many schools where they
teach the young people how to speak,
but none that tell ’em when.
The car with the most cylinders and.
the biggest body is not always the
one that makes the most fuss.
“Mary had a little calf", but the
folk’s didn’t know it until she wore
<a short skirt on a windy day.
An ounce of prevention is a great
deal cheaper than a pound of cure,
but most people buy the latter.
Some men don’t pay so much atten
tion to a woman’s ankle as they do to
the kind of stocking she wears.
Some people never start a trip on
Friday, not because they’re supersti
tious, but because Saturday is pay
day.
The trouble with wearing a dead
man’s shoes is that they never fit
exactly right. Ask the man who mar
ries a widow.
If it were half as hard to spend a
■dollar as it is to make it, there would
be fewer and smaller bills on the first
c f the month.
It has resolved itself into the ques
tion of whether you will have a gar
den or if the neighbors’ will buy their
own chicken feed.
“Russia soon to have stable gov
ernment," says a New York paper.
Which probably means that it will be
run, as now, by a lot of jackasses.
When a girl reaches the age of four
teen she knows that she is in love.
She can’t always name the man, but
jshe knows she is in love just the
same.
The man who works slowly but
steadily every day is worth a great
deal more than the man who works
like the very old rip two or three
hours a day.
There are many great heroes and
martyrs to all the world unknown.
They are the men who wear the neck
ties and smoke the cigars their wives
select for them.
No man ever married a woman witu
cut lying tc her some during court
ship. The funny part is that she|
knows what he is doing and wouldn’t
have him do otherwise.
The fashion sheets say that “the
summer styles are going to be a rev
elation ” If they reveal any more
than the spring styles, we want a good
seat in the grandstand when the pa-1
rade passes by.
AN UNCONVINCING SPEECH.
The most impressive feature of the
speech made by William Schley How
ard at Wrightsville Saturday, before
a comparatively small audience spec-’
ially worked up for the occasion, was
the fact that he failed absolutely to
demonstrate in a single particular
why he should be seriously considered
as a candidate for the United States
Senate.
There has never been any state-wide
demand for this young man to run for
the Senate.
There was not even a demand in his
own congressional district, because his
constituents were fairly well satisfied
for him to remain as representative.
The truth is, Schley Howard has
been imposed upon by some of the
men professing to be his best friends
and he doesn't know it.
Has he ever stopped to think that
possibly he was urged to get out of the
congressional race, so that somebody j
else could run who would not run
against him?
Has he ever considered the idea
that some of the men opposed to Hon.
W. J. Harris for personal reasons
were so anxious to thwart or embar
rass him that they would go to any
extremes to bring out oppositoin to
him.
It may be observed from Mr. How
ard’s speech, for that matter, that he
seems to be running as much against,
Mr. Harris as he is against Hardwick,'
if not just a little bit more—although;
Hardwick is the comman enemy and,
the man around whom the senatorial,
campaign absolutely centers.
Just because Howard has voted for
certain measures that Hardwick, op-J
posed is no reason why he should be J
elected to the Senate. The controlling
factor in the naming of the next sen
ator is whether the man will be
the most service to Georgia. Certain
ly it cannot now be believed that
Howard, the man who deliberately vio-j
lated a solemn pledge to president,
cnd who equivocated about it when ex- (
posed, it cannot be believed that
man will ever again secure the respect
and the confidence of the national
ministration. It cannot possibly be
believed that the citizens of this state
will honor a man who has been brand-j
ed by the president of the United
States as a schemer and a trickster J
a»d as a man who breaks his promises. 1
One may read Howard’s speech
through from beginning to end with-
i
out discovering in it a solitary reason
for seriously considering him as a sen
atoral candidate, and not all of his’
specious argument, not all of his bla
tant bellowing, not all of his sublime
conceit, not all of the whooping of his
friends, the Atlanta contractors andj
profiteers, not all of the hand-clapping
of the crowd of Atlanta professional
politicians, can deceive the intelli
gence of the voters of Georgia They 1
know that there is nothing to Howard,
and they know that he has no business
in this race—and when the campaign’
is over he wiH know it, too!
THE NEXT CONGRESS.
Speaking of the congressional elec
tions next fall, Elihu Root says:
“There are probably 20 or 30 con
gressional districts in this country
where there is a loyal majority, but
where there is so large a disloyal mi
nority that a division of the loyal ma
jority may let a pro-German in. in
every one of those districts Demo
crats and Republicans and all loyal
men should get together and agree
upon the loyal man of one party or I
the other who is the surest to carry
the district and to unite on him, with
out regard to party.
“There is one great single predom
inant qualification for an election to
the next congress, and that is a loyal
heart. The one important thing is to'
put men in congress who will repre
sent the driving power of the Amer
ican people for the winning of the
war I don’t care whether a man is a’
Democrat or a Republican or a Pro-|
gressive or a Socialist, or a Prohibit
tionist, as long as he has a loyal j
heart. Otherwise it is treason to send
him to congress.” |
That's exactly the way the public
feels about it.
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
CONCLUSIVE PROOF.
The influence of Prince Lichnow
sky’s expose of the German war con
spiracy has been as marked in America
as anywhere lese. To great numbers
of German-Americans it has been the
final, conclusive refutation of the Ger
’ man claim that England was responsi
-1 ble for the war. A good example is
found in the “open confession” pub
lished by the Milwaukee Germania-
Herald, a newspaper which was long
1 a steadfast defender of Germany.
“We too,” sadly admits the Ger
mania Herald, “have time and again re-
I peated the assertion to our readers
' that English statesmen, jealous of Ger
many’s success in the world markets,
attempted to encircle it. The Lich
nowsky memorandum and Von Jagow
admission have made that view ridicu
lous.”
An honest reading of that remark
able document written by an honest
German diplomat should convince any
intelligent German citizen of the guilt
of the Berlin government and the in
nocence of the allied powers. The New
York World suggests thal the federal
Committee on Public Information fur
nish an authentic copy to all the Ger
man language newspapers in the
country, to place before their read
ers. Are they willing to print it?
appreciation from brazil.
When we consider the suspicion and
dislike with which the United States
was regarded throughout Latin-Amer
ica within recent memory, there is
deep satisfaction in reading this trib
ute from Presdent-elect Alves, of
Brazl:
“The self-abnegation of the
United States in offering itself as a
sacrifice in the war, and in aban
doning the pursuits of peace with
out selfish ambitions and without
a single objective which is not
guaranteed to all peoples, has
given President Wilson unques
tioned moral authority and has
raised the United States in uni
versal estimation to a position
from which it can accomplish
the absolute solidarity of the dem
ocracies of the western hemos
phere without inciting the slight
est envy or suspicion.”
Our Latin neighbors don’t call us
“Yankee pigs” any more. They’re not
afraid of us any more. They take us at
our word They trust us, and look to
us for leadership. They are turning
into permanent fact the Pan America
nism we have desired and preached. The
resulting “solidarity of the democra
i cies of the western hemisphere” is one
of the first fruits of this war for free
! dom, and a promise of the world soli
darity that we hope to build on
j American principles.
An Impudent Question.
We wonder who wrote that two
column endorsement of ex-Gov
emor Slaton for the Dalton Citi
?en.
The insinuation in the above is little
short of impudence. If the editor of
the Americus hori>tooter for Bill
Harris will come up this way and look
us in the eye he will find the writer.
And further, he will soon discover that
there was nothing of a collusion with
any other newspaper either before or
after it was written. It was not writ
ten for any ulterior political purpose
or to be “copied by request.” It was
written because we wanted to write it.
and, further, because it was and still
is, the truth. If there is anything
wrong with the editorial, or any mis
statement of fact, point them out. and
hammer all you please, but don’t beat
around the bush and insinuate some
thing you dare not charge. When we
discover a person unduly suspicious of
the acts of others, we begin to suspect
that he himself would do the things ha
“insinuates” if he had an opportunity.
—Dalton Citizen.
Back-d To The Limit.
“In spite of fashion’s decree, the
skirts are getting shorter,” ob
serves the Americus Times-Recorder.
"Honestly, we don’t know where they
are going, but they seem to be on
their way.” And old Franc Mangum
seems to be keeping a close watch to
see where they are going. Go to it,
old man, we are backing you to the
limit.—Dalton Citizen.
When In Leslie, Gs.
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Terms of Payment:
5 per cent, with application on or before May 4, 1918.
20 per cent, on or May 28,1918.
35 per cent, on July 18, 1918.
40 percent, on August 15, 1918 (with accrued interest from May 9, 1918,
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