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THE TIMES-RECORDER
■BTABUSHED 1878.
m TIMES-RECORDKR COMPANY.
(Incorporated.)
Publisher.
Published every arternoon, except
Saturday, every Sunday morning, and
a Weekly (every Thursday).
Kntered as second class matter at
,oetoffice at Americus, Ga., under act
' March 8. 1879.
FRANC MANGUM,
Editor and Manager.
L. H. KIMBROUGH.
Assistant Business Manager.
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OFFICIAL ORGaN
City of Americus
Sumter County
Webster County
• a'.lroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District
C. 8. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, Ga- May 16, 1918.
PIRIGBAPHICILLI SPEAKING |
There are a great many wet eyes
over Jacksonvlle’s going dry.
The boys are going across. The
government asks you to come across.
Whenever a man builds himself a
castle in the air he invariably puts a
woman in it.
A man ought not to let his prejudice
against preachers extend beyond the
one who married him.
One of the prettiest front yard flower
gardens in the city is on Furlow
street. It is planted in vegetables!
Prohibition is effective in this way:
It makes the quality of likker so bad
no self-respecting man will drink it.
The ballot should be the partner o
/the bullet. Vote against the man who
is not doing all he can to help the
boys over there.
“Don’t hoard clothing,” urges the
War Industries Board. Thanks for the
tip. The ladies who wear short skirts
took your advice some time ago.
The fellow who brags about being a
“good shot” in the poolrooms ought to
be given a chance to demonstrate ifi
he is a good shot on the weste
front.
;
Is Mary Pickford's husband suing
Douglas Fairbanks for a quarter of a
million dollars because he thinks Mary
is worth that much, or because Dou
glas is?
As deserving as any battlefield
martyr is the man who has to hook up
his wife’s evening dress; especially if
it is fitted with invisible eyes and im
perceptible eyes.
After telephoning his wife that he
is coming, a man has all the way home
to think up an excuse for being late
And if he doesn’t do it in that time
it is his own fault.
It is charged that the American sol
diers in camps in this country are re
ceiving too many attentions from the
ladies. We have never heard the sol
diers complain, however.
When a man sits at home of an
evening and doesn’t hear his wife
utter a single complaint or fuss even
one time he thinks there is something
wrong with his hearing.
The fellow who persisted in leaving
the front door open when the ther
mometer was down to freezing is the
one who shuts it so carefully when
it is a hundred in the shade.
To get a vacation trip in Germany
now you must have a card approved
by the authorites If Hndenburg ever
gets his oft-planned trip to Paris, it
will have to be ok’d by the Allies
A Pittsburg couple, celebrating their
30th anniversary, who informed the
guests that up to and including that
night they had had 10,588 fusses, were
to say the least, refreshingly candid
The ordinary couple would have sworn
that they had never had a quarrel.
GEORGIA GOES DRY.
No surprise is occasioned by Jack
sonville voting a prohibition ticket.
The vote was hardly close, the
“drys” wnning by more than 1,100
votes and carrying every precinct in
(the country, with nine of the eleven
city precincts. The election was the
climax of an intensely bitter cam
paign.
* For more than a year Jacksonvlle
has been the whisky distribution cen
ter for several Southern states, sen
ing in partcular an enormous stream
of liquor into Georgia. The dealer
there very frankly stated that t
sales to Georgia were larger than dur
ing the period when there were no re
strictions on the traffic.
The nearest “oases" to Georgia now
are New Orleans, Louisville, Cincin
nati and Baltimore, but the dfficulty
and expense of brnging contraband
liquor from those points will make the
handling of it quite limited, and the
prices prohibitive.
Prohibition is marching on to vic- 1
tory the world, and the closng of Jack-]
I
sonville is merely an incident in the.
progress of the movement. It is of'
interest and importance to Georgia,
however, for it means that for the
first t me unce this state decla'ed for
ronibiticn it will hive an oppoitun
oty to give prohibition an honest,
thorough tr.al. Heretofore, Ja kson
ville has been the bole in the d/ke,
and there was no chance for Georgia to
be a normal prohibition state so long!
i
as thousands of gallons of intoxicants 1
crossed the Florida line every month.'
Not even the co-operation of the fed-J
eral officials could altogether prevent
the traffic. But now Georgia will have'
I
a fair opportunity to practice prohi
bition as well as preach it. It is going
to be a fact, rather than a theory—and
glad will be the hearts of many women 1
and children, and richer will be the
pockets of many men.
Col. Roosevelt says that Mr. Hearst
is not altogether patriotic, and Mr.;
Hearst says that Col. Roosevelt’s pa-‘
triotism is far from perfect. There’s
no argument. They’re both right.
HE HASN’T THE COURAGE.
W. J. Harris has resigned the chair
manship of one of the most important
bodies of the country, namely, the,
chairmanship of the great federal
trade commission, because he believes
he can render his state a patriotic ser-'
vice in offering himself as the instru
ment with which to defeat and repud
iate Senator Hardwick.
William S. Howard, of Atlanta, the
Atlanta candidate, whose candidacy is'
supported chiefly by Atlanta profess-j
ional politicians and profiteering con
tractors, still holds on to his rere-j
sentative’s place. He, apparently, has J
neither the courage nor the sincerity
to publish his correspondence withj
President Wilson, in which he is re
buked soy misrepresenting facts about
the president’s pocition in the Georgia
senatorial race.
Howard, so far as his limited ability
enables him, is a grandstand performer,
a four-flusher, a compound of conceit,
a demagogue, and a political blather
skite. We admit it’s somewhat early
in the campaign to indulge in adjec
tives, but the spectacle of a man like
Howard making the race for the Unit
ed States Senate is sufficient to pro
voke a few expressions of disgust.
There were comparatively few peo
ple outside of his own district who
knew Howard at all. Now they know
him entirely too well for his own good.
They know him as one who employed
downright deceit in his dealings with
the president of the United States— 1
and no man who does that can expect
much consideration from the good citi
zens of Georgia.
Howard betrayed his weakness when
he asked for a leave of absence, in
stead of resigning, as Harris has done.
He showed his weakness then, and
every act of his since then has dem
onstrated him to be weaker still.
Not Short on Skirts.
The Americus Times-Recorder has
not failed a single day to say some
thing about the short skirts. The edi
tor is never '‘short" on this subject, it
seems.—Griffin News and Sun
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
A GOOD EXAMPLE.
Secretary Baker’s confidential sec
retary has resigned his job to join
the army. He has been one of the
most capable secretaries in Washing
ton. He expects to enter the enter
the army as a private.
It seems wasteful, on first thought.
A good secretary for a man in a big,
responsble position is beyond price.
Good soldier stuff is common. And
yet, broadly speaking, such a man may
really serve his country better in the
army. Even though he should never
rise beyond rank of private, even
though his life should be snuffed out
early in the game, he has set an ex
! ample that is worth the sacrifice.
| There hasn’t been a great deal of
shirking in this country, but there has
been too much. Washington espe
cially is full of able-bodied young
men who have sought safe govern
ment berths in order to dodge the
draff. Their particular services may
not be needed at the front, but they
represent a spirit and a viewpoint that
ought to be discouraged. There ought
to be no dodging anywhere in the
■ country. And the war work at Wash
i ington would be better done than it is
if every eligible man there were
straining at the leash to get to the
front instead of so many congratu
lating themselves on their, comfort
able berths.
Keeping a Liberty Bond after you
have bought it is just as important as
buying it.
The Issue Made Plain.
Several significant happenings have
marked the progress of the Georgia
senatorial campaign during the la t
few days. Among them is the expo
sure by the Macon Telegraph of du
plicity and attempted deception of the
epople of Georgia by Congressman
Howard. The congressman attempted
to make the people believe that Pres
ident Wilson and the administration
looked with as much favor upon his
candidacy as it did upon the candidacy
of Hon. Wm. J. Harris, who had been
in the race several months. The Tele
graph proved this was a false repre
sentation and Congresman Howard has
admitted that the President preferre I
Mr. Harris, and urged him not to rir
It should be remembered that t
issue was brought into the campaign
by Mr. Howard and his press agents
Both President Wilson and Mr. Har
ris observed the proprieties, indeed,
the niceties of the Occasion It was
Mr. Howard who brought up the ques
tion, and tried to “put over’’ some
thing, and who got caught.
But the issue having been raised and
the President’s attitude having been
made lain there would appear to be but
one course for loyal Georgia demo
crats to follow and that is to sustain
the administration and carry out its
wishes by voting for Mr. Harris.
There is no getting away from the
fact that a vote for Howard or Dean
is a vote against the administration,
just the same as a vote for Hardwick
is a vote against theiPresident. In or
dinary times this might nto be a mat
ter of much imortance, but just now
America is at war. Georgia must
stand by the President and help win
the war.—Rome Tribune-Tribune.
Never Lie. Unless Necessary.
The Times-Recorder thinks on gen
eral principles a man should never tell
his wife a lie Still, if the necessty
should arise and he is dead certain
she will never catch up with him, Ell
tor Mangum thinks a lie might be ex
cusable.—Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
Yes, We’ll Except That!
“There’s may not be anything as
sweet in Hfe as Love’s young dream,
hut we’re M illing to back a dish of
peaches and cream against anything in
the wide world,” says The Americus
Timesßecorder. Won’t you even ex
cept a mess of delicious young spring
onions?—Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
We Surely Would!
Food Administrator Mangum has al
lowed ’em to raise the price of meat
at Americus. Bet if they want to!
raise the prices on grandoldbutter
milk and beautiful young onions, he’ll
resign.—Savannah Press.
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OF THE WORLD.
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■ung Sovereigns Invited to meet with
Fraternal Hall, Lamr street. AU vis
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NAT LeMASTER, Clerk.
F. and A. M.
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“Wk F - & A - M- ’ meeta
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V fourth Friday night
at 8 o'clock.
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LODGE F. and A. M
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"■'■'■-i. „■ Third Friday nights.
Visiting brothers are
anted to attend.
DR. J. R. STATHAM, W M.
NAT LeMASTER, Secretary.
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Bonds.
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To Those Who Subscribed to Th Ird 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 Saving H Stamps for the year 1918 amount
lo $623,840.00; sales in the county to March 31st amounted to 123,078.00.
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
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.
Uay'Phone 253. Night Phones 106, 657 and 3BI|T"
THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1918.