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PAGE TWO THE TIMES-RECORDER ■STABLISHED 187*. m TIMES-RECORDER COMPANY, (Incorporated.) Publisher. Published every afternoon, except Saturday, every Sunday morning, and M a Weekly (every Thursday). Intered as second class matter at ostofflee at Americus, Ga., under act * March 8, 1879. FRANC MANGUM, Editor and Manager. L. H. KIMBROUGH, Assistant Business Manager. Subscription Rates. Dally and Sunday, Five Dollars a ziear (In advance). Weekly, One Dollar a year (In ad vance). OFFICIAL ORGAN City of Americus Sumter County Webster County Ua'lroad Commission of Georgia For Third Congressional District. U. 8. Court, Southern District of Georgia. Americus, Georgia, Way 15, 1918. PIRIGBAPHICALII SPEAKING | Those who live in a worry invite death in a hurry. .ju A stable government is one govern ed by horse-sense. Some men will do anything for money—except work. Give a man an inch, and he’ll take a yard, if his wife isn't looking. A reputation must be pretty clean before you can notice a spot on it. The pessimist is a man who Is sea sick during the entire voyage of life If you think before you speak you will probably make others think after you speak. Jacksonville went “dry” yesterday, which means that a great drouth will now start in Georgia. One of the great enjoyment of old age is that you are never bothered by the insurance solicitors. Somebody ought to invent a variety of flat peas for those people who in sist upon eating with their knives. An engine of one horsepower run ning all the time is better than one of sixty horsepower standing still. The happiest folks are not those have the best of everything, but those who make the best of what they have. Every man in a small town is con vinced that he would have become world famous, had he located in a city. Somebody refers to the “various, general, miscellaneous and sundry sen atorial candidates." Not sun-dry at all —they’re mostly half-baked! Not until a woman is able to get a new hat satisfactory to herself at a price satisfactory to her husband will this world be properly adjusted. The rettiest flower, the choicest fruit, the finest dessert, the most fra grant thing that grows, is the Beauti ful Young Onion that blooms in the spring. The Columbus Enquirer-Sun ob serves that the girl who is built for the seashore doesn’t spend her sum mers in the mountains. And she doesn't wear her skirts down to her ankles, either. There are men who believe they were born great. There are others who believe they have achieved great ness; but we have never yet seen the man who was willing to acknowledge that greatness was thrust upon him. As roasting ear time will soon be here, we wish somebody would write a book on how to eat an ear, all slicked up with country butter, without spat tering grease all over your own face and that of the person next to you. BADLY BEATEN. The Macon News, we believe, was the first newspaper in Georgia to pos itively forecast the ignominious de feat of Senator Hardwck, assigning entirely logical and accurate reasons. It has been only a few days since The News took that definite position, but it must be apparent now to any unprejudiced observer of political in dications and conditions n Georga that The News is merely summarifiing the actual state of affairs. Hardwick is beaten, badly beaten. It is doubtful if he will carry a half dozen counties. Indeed, The Times- Recorder will not be surprised if he fails to carry a single county! Nowhere in this state is there any Hardwick sentiment —nowhere at all. unless it be in some of the provinces of Prussia! The former “Hardwick men” are now' missing. When the roll is called, they do not answer. There is not a single public man in Georgia who defends Hardwick. There is not a single newspaper in Georgia which is supportng him. There is not a single Hardwick club, not even in his owm county. For that i matter, the leading citizens of Wash-, ington county indignantly repudiate suggestion that the county will vot ? for Hardwick. There is not a single volunteer speaker for Hardwick. There are none to praise him, no one to defend him, while there arej thousands who denounce him for his conduct which they have ranked as 1 disloyalty. Was there ever an office-holder in. Georgia, to say nothing of p, United j Spates Senator from this state, whose j very name became a reproach? Has any citizen of this state ever received such a huge measure of public con-! tempt? It is really remarkable, when you come to think of it, that a man occu pying the high office that Hardwick does should be in such desperate straits at home, among his own peo ple. Why, it were folly to attempt to de tend the man’s record. The man who! is known as “a Hardwick man”—and there are a few with the temerity to brave the name—is immediately look ed upon with something akin to sus pision, and is pointed out as a citizen not wholly in sympathy with his gov ernment. Talk of Hardwick sentiment —there is none! Not even in the rural dis tricts,,to which Hardwick has deliber ately made his appeal—an appeal j which is in realPy an insult to the very, people w’hose friendly regard he pro fesses to have —not even “out in the country” is there any Hardwick talk. There may have been once upon a time, but there is none now. The farmers have learned more about Hardwick arid his despicable record. They have learned more about the war. They have sons at the front. | They themselves are feeling the pinch of the times. They know that we are in this war up to our necks, and that' we must fight to swim ashore. Andi they know' that anyone who obstructs, the work for the carrying on of the war is, in effect, a traitor to the best interests of the nation. The farmers have also learned that it is as unpopular as it is unpatriotic to "be *or Hardwick,” and they are not for h : m, except, perhaps, in iso lated instances. Hardwick is beaten, badly beaten. If he should fail to continue his campaign and practically retire from the race, we would not be a bit sur prised. For it is going to be danger ous for Hardwick, or for any man, to pursue the course he has started, and he is bound to realize it ere long, just as he is certain to awake to the fact that he is the most despised man in the public life of this state. Occasionally, She Is. When a woman discovers that a man is trying to flirt with her she doesn’t know whether to be insulted or feel, complimented. It all depends on the man.—Americus Times-Recorder And It is just possible that she is mistaken in thinking the man is trying to flirt with her.—Columbus Enqurer-Sun. AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER. SELF-DENIAL AND VICTORY. “What can I do to win the war?" tens of people are asking. The answer given by Walter S. Gifford, director of the Council of National Defense, is simple and explicit: "Practice econ omy.” Without economy the nation can’t finance the war. We have got to save money to buy war bonds and thrift stamps, subscribe to the Red Cross and support other vital war activities. And that isn’t the whole story. Al most as important as the payment of | war expenses is the saving materials I that are needed for war purposes, and the freeing of factories and workers for w’ar industries. "The nation’s resources in man power, money, transportation, food stuffs. raw materials and fuel have al ready been subjected to a heavy strain,” explains Mr. Gifford. “It is the clear duty of every citizen to guard against increasing this strain by a single wasteful act. “It is most creditable for every man, woman, boy and girl to be eco nomical in dress, food and manner of living. Every evidence of helpful self-denial on the part of all at a time like this is most commendable. This war is more than a conflict between armies; it is a contest to which every man, woman and child can and should render assistance. There is to be a national economy campaign to drive the lesson home to everybody. It w’as formerly thought that much could be accomplished by the suppres sion of “nonessential industries.” That plan has been virtually abandoned be cause it is so hard to say which in dustries are essential and which are not The matter is now left almo wholly to individual judgment. Every American, old or young, is asked to regard himself or herself a s a thrift volunteer. The principle to be applied is sim ple What is essential to one person may not be essential to another. The test is, “Is it a luxury to me?” If so, cut it out. UN FAIR TO THE DRUGGISTS. The druggists have not been treated properly by the United States govern ment in a military way, and they are entitled to more recognition and, at least, to equal, simple justice. Doctors, dentists, even transporta tion men, when entering the army ser vice, are commissioned. Some rank as high as majors. None are less than second lieutenants. But a druggist is still a druggist, a private, without rank or adequate com pensation. Even the armies of Bulgaria and Turkey commission their druggists, whose services are indispensable at every camp and with the armies at the front All of the European nations commission the druggists. Somehow or other the United States has overlooked the druggists, and as a result there has been a slow response to the appeal for pharmacists to vol unteer. At present there is in progress some agitation in favor of giving commis sions to pharmacists, upon’proper ex amination. and the matter will be carried to Congress. The Georgia members of the profession are taking much interest in the matter, because they want to serve their country, when called upon, and they want to do so in a w’ay that will reflect credit upon themselves and upon the nation. They feel that they are handicaped If they are shunted off to the ranks simply as privates, while other men of less training are ranked above them as officers. By all means make it possible for a druggist in active military service to be? ommissioned. if he is entitled to it. ii i .i T ■■ i j-i" —y , ~ The Stocking Question. How many inches of stocking should show between the hem of the skirt and the top of the shoe Is a question that has not been definitely settled. How ever, we think that it depends alto gether on whether the stocking is silk or cotton —Americus Times-Recorder. And, besides, you are not caring a darn about the stocking anyway, and you know it. —Delton Citizen. When in Leslie, fia. Cal! Pn J. W. BAiIWICK For Coldest Drinks, Ice and Coal, Fresh Fish Every Friday and Saturday FINE PHOTOGRAPHS made on Postal Cards,Cabinets, large Groups, Residences, Schools, and Churches. Pictures Copied, Pictures Enlarged. DON’T FORGET THE PLACE J. W. BARWICK “The Ice Man” LESLIE, GEORGIA C X DAVIS Dental Surgeon. Orthodontia, Pyorrhea. Residence Phone 316 Office Phone 818 Allison Building. - . - —HI. ,„■! .■.-111.. » M. H. WHEELER, Dental Surgeon. Bell Bldg., Opposite Post Office Office Phone 785; Res. Phone 36 AMERICUS CAMP, 202, WOODMEN OF THE WORLD. Meets every Wednesday night in /ung Sovereigns invited to meet with Fraternal Hall, Lam: street. All vis ors welcome. C. J. WILLIAMS, C, J NAT LeMASTER, Clerk. F. and A. M. AMERICUS LODGE F & A. M., meets i Ircw every second and ■ fourth Friday night at 8 o’clock. K. E. SCHNEIDER, W. M. « L. HAMMOND. Secy. M. B. COUNCIL < LODGE F. and A. M v, u p meets every First and ’ Third Friday nights. Visiting brothers are mred to attend. DR J. R. STATHAM, W M NAT LeMASTER, Secretary. «ISS BESSIE WINDSOR, Insurance. Bonds. Office, Forsyth St. Phone 280 teard Mr Line Leave Americus for Abbeville, Hel ena, Collins, Savannah, Columbia Richmond, Portsmouth and points sast and South 12:31 p in 1:20 a m Leave Americus for Helena and in termediate points ssli p m Leave AmecHus for Columbus, Montgomery and points West and Northwest 3:08 p m H. P. EVERETT, Agent. Amt-ricus, Ja. Kimball House ATLANTA, GA. BROOMS MODERATE PRICES CENTRALLY LOCATED Entirely Remodeled and Redecorate* UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT L. 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Ajax Tires are guaranteed, in writing, 5,000 miles. We have them to lit your car. WJLLAMS NILES CO. Hardware TELEPHONE 706 MONEY 51 % i MONFYI OANFfl on farm lands at 5 1 * 2 -p er cent 1 IHUIUI LU/iIILU interest and borrowers have priv ilege of paying part or all of principal at any interest I period, stopping inlerest on amounts paid. We always I have best rates and easiest terms and give quickest ser- | vice. Save money by seeing or writing us. r G. R. ELLIS or G. C. WEBB | AMERICUS, GEORGIA | J. W. SHEFFIELD, President E. D. SHEFFIELD, Cashier. FRANK SHEFFIELD, Vice Pres’t. LEE HUDSON, Asst. Cashier. To Those Who Subscribed Io Third Liberty Loan Bond 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, on the three deferred installments). Sumter County has subscribed its quota to each Issue of Liberty Bonds Our quota to the War Savings Stamps for the year 1918 amount Ao $623,840 00; sales in the county to March 31st amounted to $23,078.00. If we are to raise our quota of War iSavngs Stamps for this year, we must sell $600,762.00 worth between now and December 31st, 1918. ARE YOU DOING YOUR BEST ON THIS QUOTA. Bank of Commerce ~~ ■ I— ‘ Americus Undertaking Company Funeral Directors and Embalmers Nat LeMaster, Manager Day Phones 88 ano 231 Night 661 and 13. OLEN BUCHANAN Funeral Director And Embalmer Allison Undertaking Co. Pay’Phone 253. Night Phones 106, 657 and 3811*" ... \\ EDNESDAV, MAT 15, 1918.