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WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1»18.
811VIL ID REMAIN
AS Amo END
SAG PAULO, May Msy 15. —“Brazil
will follow the course of the United
States to the end of the war. The
change will not altar our policy of
backing up the leadership of the United
States in the most friendly and gen
uinely way.”
The speaker was President -elect
Kodriguez Alves, who will return to
the presidential chair of Brazil for the
second time on November 12. In a
most convincing manner and without
equivocation, the next executive in
an interview Thursday, the first he
has given since his election, outlined
his war policy about which speculaton
has been rife.
“The course of the United States
during the war crisis stirs my personal
pride that during my previous admin,
stration from 1903 to 1916, with
Senor Rio Branca as foreign secre
tary, we gave much attention to pro
moting the closest relationship with
Alves.
the United Press,” said President
Alves. “By raising our Washington
legation to the rank of embassy, and j
promoting the second Fan-American
congress, we so manifested our re
gard that Brazil was honored with
a visit from that other great states
men, Elihu Root, who like President
Wilson, greatly advanced South Am
erican understanding and appreciation
of the high purposes of the United
States. For stronger reasons the
same policy will be followed during
the second administration Our main
foreign policy will be eliminate pre
judices and suspicions between all
American countries just as the occas
ion of Mr. Root’s memorable visit to
Brazil, I personally and heartily en
dorsed extension of the trip to the
other great Southern republics.
“I repeat that this will continue to
be the basis of Brazil’s international
policy. Meanwhile we recognize that
by the enormity 7 of her sacrifices and
her unselfish contribution to de
mocrary in the present trouble, the
United States in the opinion of the
Brazilians, has earned the right of
voicing and interpreting the senti
ments of the western republic to pro
mote unity of purpose and mutual con
fidence which are most essential to
the common good of all.”
“Then you prefer Pan-Americanism
to the policy of Latin Americanism?”
the president-elect was asked.
“Unquestionably stands for Pan-Am
ericanism,” he replied, “having been
for years in closest sympathy with
the United States and seemingly have
understood the Washington policy bet
ter than some others have. Brazil has
all the territory she desires and she
covets nothing of her neighbors.
Naturally she recognizes that the
United States is equally endowed and
equally uncovetous. Brazil has nev
er taken seriously the myth that the
United States is ambitious for terri
torial acquisition."
“Speakng for Brazil only, Pan-Am
ericanism is the most sensible policy.
The resourcefulness and financial
strength of the United States offer
much that we need after the war On
the other hand the developments of
Brazil’s natural wealth offers much
to the United States.
YOU ARE INVITED TO
HUNT OUT TRAITORS
WASHINGTON, May 15.—Every cit
izen may act as a volunteer detective
to assist government officers in ferret
ing out persons suspected of disloyal
actions or utterances, Attorney Gen
arel Gregory says in a statement is
sued todaq.
United States Attorney have been
told to co-operate with newspapers in
their districts so that public notice
"'-n be given of the nearest offices oi
attorneys of the Bureau of Investiga
tion, to which citizens may refer in
formation that they think will be
valuable in running down suspicious
persons.
“The district attorneys are instruct
ed to make it clear,” says the attorney
general, “that complaints of even the
most informal or confidential nature
are always welcome, and that citi
zens should feel free to bring their
information or suspicions to the at
tention of the nearest representative
of the department of justice, or, if
that is not conveniet. com’”' , cate with
the department at Washington.”
Hundreds of letters are received
daily by the department from persons
who believe they discover evidence
of disloyalty. Although only a small
part of the- information proves of
value, the department considers the
system of sufficient wSrth to warrant
its extension.
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Contributed by Frank Godwin.
The Maker of Bandages
Red Cross Workers Solve in One Minute the
Mystery of the Stony Hearted
Mrs. Britt.
By MAXIMILIAN FOSTER
Os the Vigilantes.
A diamond is not the hardest thing
in the world. A diamond will cut
glass and bore through case hardened,
tempered chrome steel, but glass and
steel —the diamond itself too —are soft
compared to some things. The hardest
thing in the world is a hard woman.
Mrs. Britt was such a woman.
I have seen hard women in my time,
but never one who was harder. She
smiled seldom, and when she smiled It
was like the glitter of ice. She spoke
infrequently, and when she spoke her
speech was the tinkle of hail on slate
roofing. She did not look as if she had
ever wept in her life.
Every morning Mrs. Britt appeared
at the Red Cross auxiliary in upper
Broadway. She was the first to arrive
in the morning, the last to leave at
night. No one knew much about her,
though. She was not the sort that
make confidences. But that she was a
worker —a hard worker —no one would
dispute. Efficiency, as you'd suppose,
was a trait of Mrs. Britt’s.
Are Efficient Women Hard?
Efficiency—dreadful word that I How
often hard women are efficient! How
often efficient woman are hard! She
was both. Mrs. Britt. The moment she
came in at the door she had her hat
and jacket off. The next instant she
was at her place, her mouth set, grim,
austere and hard —hard at w r ork. Prob
ably she did her work only from a sense
of duty. Hard women always profess
that trait. Duty, duty! But, then,
few women are as hard as Mrs. Britt.
In contrast to her was Mrs. Farlow.
She was soft and womanly and gentle
—the exact opposite. She was not
very efficient, of course, though she
tried. Day after day Mrs. Farlow sat
at the work table, her mouth quiver
ing, smiling wistfully, the tears starting
In her eyes. The bandages that came
from her were often soiled and rum
pled, poorly sewn, too, by her poor lit
tle trembling fingers. It was a won
der she could even see to sew at all.
Again and again what she turned In
had to be thrown away.
But no one reprimanded her. No one
even let fall a hint that she was more
of a burden than a help. The hearts
of all those women ached with woman
ly pity for the poor, stricken mother.
Once in awhile, though, in her comer
at the back of the room Mrs. Britt
would turn around and throw a glance
at her. The glance was as hard as
rocks-y-harder, In fact.
Mrs. Farlow had a son in the Rain
bow division. The son was the oldest
of her four children, and until he went
away the little mother had been the
btppiest woman In the world. Now any
day he might be ordered off to France.
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
His picture was in the locket she
wore. Every half hour she would stop
her work to look at it. Sometimes, tier
face wistful, she would show it to the
other workers, voicing the anguish that
with every waking breath she drew
twanged hollowly in her mother’s heart.
One afternoon Mrs. Farlow’s oldest
daughter came hurrying in. Her face
was white. She had just learned that
the Rainbow division had been ordered
overseas.
Mrs. Farlow rose, her face tragic.
One glance she gave about her, then
she collapsed, sinking to the floor. In
her fall she overturned a huge pile of
antiseptic gauze just tom into squares
for Triangulars No. 13.
The room instantly was in confu
sion. Instantly every one sprang to
the mother’s aid —that Is, every one
but Mrs. Britt. She rose and rescued
the bandages under foot. Then, her
face hard as nails, grimly Mrs. Britt
went back to her work. When Mrs.
Farlow, still stricken, was led away to
her car outside the drab figure in the
Corner was plugging away as mechan
ically and methodically as ever. The
one glance she threw over her shoul
der at the weeping woman was almost
contemptuous.
A hard woman, Mrs. Britt; a heart
less one, too, It was agreed.
For days nothing was seen at the
auxiliary of Mrs. Farlow. It was un
derstood that in her grief and appre
hension she w 7 as ill In bed. Then one
afternoon, pallid and quivering, she
came in at the door. She smiled wist
fully when the others gathered about
her. “Let me work,” she appealed
plaintively. “Work may help me not
to think.”
Her Bandages Worthless.
She took a bandage and tried to
sew. She made poor work of It, how
ever. Then her head sank on her
breast and the bandage slipped from
her hands. “I can’t —oh, I can’t!” she
wept.
Once more she was led away.
The same thing happened three or
four days later. A week later the
mother wandered In again. By now
the first of the troops were In the
trenches, and her pale, transparent
face was like a wraith’s. She took a
bandage; she tried to sew, and for a
third time Mrs. Farlow gave in.
“Oh, my boy, my boy!” she walled.
The next Instant a face was thrust
into hers. The face was Mrs. Britt’s,
and the hard, bony visage was quiver
ing with 111 concealed anger and con
tempt.
"Sit down! Stop it!” said Mrs.
Britt With one hand she thrust Mrs.
Farlow back on her chair; with the
other she thrust at her the half fin
ished bandage. Her tone as grim as
her face, she spoke, and again the
sound of It was like hail pattering on
slate. “You’re not thinking of your
son,” she said. “You’re just thinking
of yourself!”
There was a murmur of remon
strance. Mrs. Britt heard It, and she
flashed a look about her. But when
she spoke again It was to Mrs. Farlow
she spoke.
Think of Your Son.
“You’re not the only mother In this
war,” she said. “If you thought a lit
tle more about them and a little less
about yourself you’d be doing some
thing. You'd be helping your son, for
one thing!”
“Why, what do you mean?” gasped
Mrs. Farlow.
Mrs. Britt smiled another adamant,
Icy smile.
“Your son wouldn't die for want of
care. Any one of those bandages I’ve
seen you ruin might save his life. Any
one of them might save the life of
some other mother's son !”
Mrs. Farlow shrank as if she had
been struck. She’d never thought of it
that way before.
The silence, the grim reserve, which
had cloaked Mrs. Britt seemed for a
moment to quit her. “I have no son,"
she said, her flinty voice biting out the
words. “I had one, but he died at
Guantanamo. It was In the Spanish
war,” snapped Mrs. Britt, “and there
were no bandages—nothing. That's
why he died. That’s why I’m here
now. It’s to keep other women—moth
ers —from becoming the sort of woman
I am.” A harsh, brittle laugh escaped
her. "Oh, I know what you think of
me. I’ve heard what you said. Well,”
said Mrs. Britt, “my son wouldn’t have
died like that maybe If I hadn’t sat
around sniffling and snuffling, never
doing a thing.”
Then, her lips drawn Into a bony
smile, she glanced about her once
more and stalked back to her place in
the corner.
That night Mrs. Farlow rose from
her place at the bandage table and
sought the table at the back. For the
first time that day Mrs. Farlow had
managed to create half a dozen band
ages, none of which had to be thrown
away. Timidly she held out a hand to
the drab, dingy figure in the corner.
“I —I’ve done better today,” she said
timidly.
Mrs. Britt looked up at her. Out of
the corner of one glassy eye something
welled, then fell, running slowly down
her cheek.
“He was only twenty. He was all I
had," said Mrs. Britt.
HOG ISLAND WAYS ARE'
IDLE FOR LACK OF STEEL
PHILADELPHIA, May 15.—Twenty
of the 25 ways at the Hog Island ship
yards are idle.
The reason is lack of steel.
I The United States Steel Corporation,
( the Bethlehem mills, and other big
steel producers are failing to furnish
the steel required.
Here Charles M Schwab is finding a
[ foeman worthy 7 of his steel. The foe
man is the old Giant Delay, and the I
steel mils are somehow encourag
ing the giant.
| Since Mr. Schwab took charge of
, the shipbuilding activities of the coun
try there have been sgns of greater
speed at Hog Island, but only three
keels are being laid in a two weeks
period, instead of five in same length
of time, as contemplated in the pro
i
gram.
| There is plenty of labor. The fed
eral employment bureau has been
sending 900 workers a day to Hog Isl
and, and could send three times as
many without interfering with other
industries. Four thousand men were
i
sent form one section of Ohio.
“Can Schwab get the steel?” is the
question of the day 7 at Hog Island, and
25,000 workers in the employ of the
American international Shipbuilding
I Co. are among those who hope he
can.
| ANNOUNCEMENTS |
To the Voters of the Southwestern
Judicial Circuit:
I hereby announce my candidacy
for election to the office of solicitor
general of the Southwestern judicial
circuit, subject to the Democratic pri
mary, to be held on the second Wed-1
nesday in September.
I will appreciate your support, and,
if elected. I promise to discharge the'
duties of this office with fidelity and to 1
the best of my ability.
Respectfully,
ZACK CHILDERS.
To The People of the Southwestern
Judicial Circuit:
I respectfully announce myself a
candidate for the office of Solicitor-
General of the Southwestern circuit
in the coming state primary. 1 prom-1
tee, if elected, to perform the duties of'
the office, to the best of my ability, and
in strict accord with the obligations
imposed by law upon the holder of'
this responsible position.
I will greatly appreciate the support i
of the people of this circuit in the com I
ing primary. G. Y. HARRELL.
To the voter of the Southwestern I
Judicial Circuit:
I beg leave to announce my candi
dacy for office of Solicitor General, in
September primary.
If elected I shall perform, with cour
age and fidelity the duties fixed by
law upon the holder of this office.
My conception is that there can be
such policy of its administration, as
that the office will stand as a menace
to wrong-doing, and as well, a posi
tive aid and encouragement >o con
structive good and peace to tbe coun
ties of the circuit
Every effort will be made to make
practical realization of this concep
tion.
Opportunity for extended service is |
the strongest reason for this decision
Will sincerely appreciate and try
hard to justify any confidence an in
terest shown in my race.
Respectfully,
JULE FFLTON.
To The Voters of The Southwestern
Judicial Circuit:
I hereby announce my candidacy
for the office of Solicitor General for
the remainder of the unexpired term
of the late Hon. J. R. Williams, the
election to take place tn the Septem
ber primaries.
I have been filling by appointment
the first part of said term and am
now asking to be permitted to
serve the remaining two years there
of. If elected I shall give to the office
the same conscientious and painstak
ing attention that I have heretofore
given it, and I shall sincerely appre
ciate the endorsement and support of
the people of this circuit. Respect
fully JOHN A. FORT.
J. LEWIS ELLIS
Attorney at Law
Planters Bank Building
Americus, Ga.
■OUSE AND SIGN PAINTING,
laterter Deeoratiag.
Get My Estimates.
JOS FITZGERALD.
IM E. Lamar St.
JOHN
ROBINSON’S
10 BIG
SHOWS
Writes a Letter
Read what they say:
H O. Jones Medicine Co.,
Americus, Ga.
Gentleman: We have used
and are using your Balsam of
Benzoin for cuts, sprains,
bruises, wire cuts, galled should
ers nd sores of various kinds
among our stock and we feel no
hesitancy in recommending it to
large horse and mule owners
and dealers
JOHN ROBINSON’S SHOWS,
By Claud Orton. Boss Hostler.
Large stock owners and deal
ers should not be without this
valuble remedy.
Equally good for man and
household purposes. Call for it
by name, JONES BALSAM OF
BENZOIN.
For sale by druggists and
dealers everywhere.
C. of Ga.Ry
THE RIGHT WAY*'
Trains Arrive.
From Columbus
(Seminole) 12:10 a m
From Jacksonville
| (Seminole) 3:40 am
From Atlanta-Macon 5:22 a m
From Albany ••....* 6:40 a m
From Columbus ! 110:00 a m
From Columbus _! 111:45 a m
From Macon •• * 2:17 p m
From Montgomery-Albany *.2:17 p.m
From Columbus 1 7:15p m
From Mccoo •• * 7:85 p m
From Montgomery-Albany *10:52 p m
Fur Jacksonville
| (Seminole) ..■• 12:10 a m
For Chicago (Seminole) ..* 3:40 a m
For Montgomery-Albany * 5:22 a m
For aMcon-Atlanta * 6:40 a m
For Columbus I 7:15 a m
For Montgomery Albany ..* 2:17 pm
i For Columbus 1 2:30 p m
[For Albany * 7:85 p m
For aMcon-Atlanta *10:52 p m
♦Daily. I Except Sunday. !! Sunday
only. GEO. ANDERSON,
Agent.
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The
Frogrance
of Orange
Blossoms
no more pleasing to
the nostrils than the fla
vor of the sun-smacked
California oranges which
makes
ORANGE
CRUSH
at once the most palata
ble and ths most whole
some of fruit drinks.
Risk a nickel on our
recommendation.
5c the Bottle
AMERICUS
Coca-Cola
Bottling Co.
T. VIVIEN, |laoagcr
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